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“We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained bodies; the skills they attain through their own concentration and rigor, and the unique phase in their lives during which they may explore boys and eroticism at their own pace - these are magical. And they constitute the entrance point to a life cycle of a sexuality that should be held sacred.”

Knows Should May Self Body Girl Boys Skills Unique Sacred Sexuality Concentration Cycles Pace Phases Entrances Rigor Self Contained

Author:Naomi Wolf

“I feel moderately bad about this whole thing. On the one hand, I am providing myself with urgently required survival skills. Other lessons in this series include Shoplifting, Beating People Up, Picking Locks, Climbing Trees, Driving, Housebreaking, Dumpster Diving, and How to Use Oddball Things like Venetian Blinds and Garbage Can Lids as Weapons. On the other hand, I’m corrupting my poor innocent little self. I sigh. Somebody’s got to do it.”

Source: The Time Traveler's Wife

“I mean, if you were to find a shattered mirror, find all the pieces, all the shards and all the tiny chips, and have whatever skill and patience it took to put all that broken glass back together so that it was complete once again, the restored mirror would still be spiderwebbed with cracks, it would still be a useless glued version of its former self, which could show only fragmented reflections of anyone looking into it. Some things are beyond repair. And that was me.”

Ifs Mean Stills Self Shows Together Pieces Broken Skills Reflection Mirrors Glasses Tiny Versions Former Useless Cracks Chips Shattered Back Together Fragmented Broken Glass

Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Skill in any performance whether it be in sports in playing the piano in conversation or in selling merchandise consists not in painfully and consciously thinking out each action as it is performed but in relaxing and letting the job do itself through you. Creative performance is spontaneous and ‘natural’ as opposed to self-conscious and studied.”

Thinking Self Action Jobs Sports Natural Creative Skills Conversation Conscious Performances Selling Piano Spontaneous Self Conscious Merchandise Cybernetics Psycho Cybernetics

Book:Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded

Source: Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded

“At the core, our motives are always self-serving, Kate. Altruism is a fog created by sly minds seeking to benefit from the energy and skill of others. Nothing more.”

Mind Self Energy Skills Benefits Seeking Core Motive Serving Altruism Fog Kate Sly Self Serving

Book:Magic Strikes

Source: Magic Strikes

“Bud, my self-defense and combat skills teacher, was still trying to get me to learn knife fighting. "Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to nearly all paranormals!" "Tasey!" I countered. "Hot pink and sparkly!”

Trying Stills Self Sometimes Fighting Teacher Skills Hot Painful Defense Paranormal Silver Combat Knives Bud Self Defense Hot Pink

Author:Kiersten White

“It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps.”

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Author:Peter Straub

“Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.”

“In my mind, the purpose of education is to enable human beings to develop to their full potential, intellectually and spiritually. That means that students have to be empowered to pursue self-knowledge and the skills that will help them be of service to their fellow human beings. Education should encourage people to develop their curiosity about life; above all, it should not trivialize either the students or their lives.”

“Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self realization. Yoga means union - the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day to day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.”