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Selves Quotes by Mary Pipher
- Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.
- Girls who stay true to themselves manage to find some way to respect the parts of themselves that are spiritual. They work for the betterment…
- Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls…
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- Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away… — Swami Vivekananda
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster
- If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves,… — Albert Einstein
- Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often… — Brené Brown
- The more money you spend on X-Mas gifts, doesn't mean more love. Don't use the excuse, 'you want to give people the… — YourMaj3sty
- In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote… — Dirk Benedict
- Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is… — Christian Nestell Bovee
- Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours… — Octavio Paz