“My biggest advice for girls - and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger - is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.” FirstsWantedSongGirlWishKnownAdviceSkinsLike MeObsessedThickThick Skin Author:Kate Voegele
“He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.” FirstsBeautySkinsPuritanPhilistinesSkin DeepBeauty Is Skin DeepBeauty Is Only Skin DeepBeauty Skin Deep Book:A Mania for Magnificence Source: A Mania for Magnificence
“What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an old skin and inquire further into the unknown, or at least the not-yet-known-to-myself.” IfsFirstsI CanResultsKnownAchieveSkinsSatisfyingShed Author:Pablo Picasso
“This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove. Our first flaws were emerging, but they were being corrected. Blurry vision could be fixed invisibly with the magic of the contact lens. Crooked teeth were pulled straight with braces. Spotty skin could be chemically cleared. Some girls were turning beautiful. A few boys were growing tall.” FirstsKidsAgeSchoolBeautifulGirlThreeVoiceVisionBoysGrowingMagicMiddleSummerShotsSkinsMiracleTeethContactFixedBreastsFlawsTallInchesLensesEmergingDoveCrookedMiddle SchoolBracesBlurryContact LensesCrooked Teeth Book:The Age of Miracles Source: The Age of Miracles
“If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or non-human, we must first come to terms with the minority and the enemy in ourselves and in our own hearts, for the rascal is there as much as anywhere in the "external" world - -especially when you realize that the world outside your skin is as much yourself as the world inside.” IfsWorldWantFirstsHumansHeartWarMotivationalTermRealizingNaturalJusticeEnemySkinsMinoritiesWandsRascalsNatural Enemies Author:Alan Watts
“A man spends the first year of his life learning that he ends at his own skin, and the rest of his life learning that he doesn't.” MenYearsFirstsEndsSkinsLife Learning Author:Saul Gorn