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Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate need of help.

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From the newsstands a dozen models smiled up at her from a dozen magazine covers, smiled in thin-faced, high-cheekboned agreement to Kessa's…
Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate need of…
Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown.
She lay on her back and walked her fingers down her ribs, skipped them over her abdomen, and landed on her pelvic…
She'd lost two more pounds. A picture of the models she'd cut out of the magazine flashed through Kessa's mind. And the…
Kessa ran her fingers over her stomach. Flat. But was it flat enough? Not quite. She still had some way to go.…
How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn't. Energy came from will, from self-control.
Soon I'll be thinner than all of you, she swore to herself. And then I'll be the winner. The thinner is the…
Kessa began to cut her meat into tiny pieces. As a whole it was unmanageable, frightening; but divided and arranged, the meat…
She ran her hands over her body as if to bid it good-bye. The hipbones rising from a shrunken stomach were razor-sharp.…
She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity…
The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending injury. In…

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We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember. — Nhat Hanh
Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with others in… — Charles R. Swindoll
There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever… — H. M. Tomlinson
Jesus gives us hope because He keeps us company, has a vision and knows the way we should go. — Max Lucado
Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there. — Mark Twain
What keeps us playing our parts and going round and round the three lower worlds is not a Divine dictate, but ourselves,… — Nilakanta Sri Ram
What is [the role of money] in the search for meaning? Is our relationship to it one of the chief factors that… — Jacob Needleman
Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems. — Unknown Author
Painful as it may be to hear it, there's nothing special about the people of this country that sets them apart from… — Unknown Author
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the… — William James
Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement… — Beverley Jones
Fear - It's a fine line between that and pushing yourself. You definitely reach new heights when you push. But fear is… — Stephanie Gilmore

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