Unnatural Things Quotes by Mary Pipher

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• People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best…
• With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.
• In all the years I've been a therapist, I've yet to meet one girl who likes her body.
• Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their…
• Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.
• Girls who stay true to themselves manage to find some way to respect the parts of themselves that are spiritual. They work…
• Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater…
• Telling stories never fails to produce good in the universe.
• Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.
• The fullness of life comes from an identity built on giving and on joy.
• Parents wrongly assume that their daughters live in a world similar to the one they experienced as adolescents. They are dead wrong.…
• Intelligent resistance keeps the true self alive

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