"She was tired of everyone deciding her life for her. She was ready to figure out who she really was--not what anyone else told her to be."

Self, Identity, Autonomy, Independence

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"She was tired of everyone deciding her life for her. She was ready to figure out who she really was--not what anyone else told her to be."

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"If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the painful process of finding it."

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"We must design how we wish to be perceived, and then we must work even harder to continuously recreate and re-evaluate that perception."

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"Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Cut the connection between your clothes and your beliefs, because clothes will not make you something, it won't make you honest or dishonest, good or bad! Your essence will not change because of what you wear!"

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"We must carefully cultivate the voice that speaks to us because an internal voice is the ultimate narrator of our charming and delightful personal story or the documentarian of our tragic and disgraceful plotlines. Stories that we tell ourselves become our functional reality, which format structures the concourse of the nested emotional control panel that guides and girds us through the din of the present."

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"When you give your mind, body, and heart the message that you are worth the effort of being conscious, miraculous things start to happen."

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"The Snow White the midnight the moon tales of the mechanics."

Storytelling

"Cinder flexed her tongue, testing it, and raised her voice."I am princess Selene."Levana leaned forward. "Your are an impostor!""And I am ready to claim what's mine. People of Artemisia, this is your chance. Renounce Levana as your queen and swear fealty to me, or I swear that when I wear that crown, very person in this room will be punished for their betrayal."

Leadership

"Sometime your heart is the only thing worth listening to."

Intuition

"Don't thank me for telling the truth when it would have been mercy to lie to you."

Ethics

"It is a dangerous thing to unbelieve something only because it frightens you."

Philosophy

"He also said to tell you that Wolf misses you very much."

Affection

"Now mine eyes see the heart that once we did search for, and I fear this heart shall be mended, nevermore."

Heart

"The cybernetic operation?""No, the sex change."The doctor's smile faltered."I'm joking."

Humor

"Over everything, I choose you."

Love

"Do I have permission to take control of you first? Just your bodies, not your minds.""I've been waiting for you to admit you wanted my body."

Relationship