The wild nature has a vast integrity to it. It means to establish one's territory, to find one's pack, to be in one's body with certainty and pride regardless of the body's gifts and limitations, to speak and act in one's own behalf, to be aware, alert, to draw on the innate feminine powers of intuition and sensing, to come into one's cycles, to find what one belongs to, to rise with dignity, to retain as much consciousness as possible. -Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With The Wolves, Singing Over The Bones, P10.
Class never runs scared.It is sure-footed and confident.It can handle anything that comes along.Class has a sense of humor.It knows a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the machinery of human relations.Class never makes excuses.It takes its lumps and learns from past mistakes.Class knows that good manners are nothing more than a series of small, inconsequential sacrifices.Class bespeaks an aristocracy that has nothing to do with ancestors or money.Some wealthy __lue bloods_ have no class, while individuals who are struggling to make ends meet are loaded with it.Class is real.It can__ be faked.Class never tried to build itself by tearing others down.Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.Class can __alk with kings and keep it__ virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch._ Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.If you have class, you__e got it made.If you don__ have class, no matter what else you have, it doesn__ make any difference.
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Class never runs scared.It is sure-footed and confident.It can handle anything that comes along.Class has a sense of humor.It knows a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the machinery of human relations.Class never makes excuses.It takes its lumps and learns from past mistakes.Class knows that good manners are nothing more than a series of small, inconsequential sacrifices.Class bespeaks an aristocracy that has nothing to do with ancestors or money.Some wealthy __lue bloods_ have no class, while individuals who are struggling to make ends meet are loaded with it.Class is real.It can__ be faked.Class never tried to build itself by tearing others down.Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.Class can __alk with kings and keep it__ virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch._ Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.If you have class, you__e got it made.If you don__ have class, no matter what else you have, it doesn__ make any difference.
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