peer-pressure

Why aren't you in school? I see you every day wandering around.""Oh, they don't miss me," she said. "I'm antisocial, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it? Social to me means talking to you about things like this." She rattled some chestnuts that had fallen off the tree in the front yard. "Or talking about how strange the world is. Being with people is nice. But I don't think it's social to get a bunch of people together and then not let them talk, do you? An hour of TV class, an hour of basketball or baseball or running, another hour of transcription history or painting pictures, and more sports, but do you know, we never ask questions, or at least most don't; they just run the answers at you, bing, bing, bing, and us sitting there for four more hours of film-teacher. That's not social to me at all. It's a lot of funnels and lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them telling us it's wine when it's not. They run us so ragged by the end of the day we can't do anything but go to bed or head for a Fun Park to bully people around, break windowpanes in the Window Smasher place or wreck cars in the Car Wrecker place with the big steel ball. Or go out in the cars and race on the streets, trying to see how close you can get to lampposts, playing 'chicken' and 'knock hubcaps.' I guess I'm everything they say I am, all right. I haven't any friends. That's supposed to prove I'm abnormal. But everyone I know is either shouting or dancing around like wild or beating up one another. Do you notice how people hurt each other nowadays?

From the time he was young, he dressed the way you told him to dress; he acted the way you told him to act; he said the things you told him to say. He's been listening to somebody else tell him what to do... He hasn't changed. He is still listening to somebody else tell him what to do. The problem is, it isn't you any,ore; it's his peers.

Peer pressure becomes more powerful when our children are away from our influence and when their defenses are weakened late at night. If you have ever felt uneasy about an overnight activity, don__ be afraid to respond to that warning voice inside. Always be prayerful when it comes to protecting your precious children.

Unhappiness comes from living the life of two people--the one people want you to be and the one you want to be.

As long as we don't get turned into something that looks more like high school, more like everybody else and less like us, I'll be okay.

Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone__ version of reality is not your reality.

My mind is like a little house,My peers break into.They rearrange my furniture,And the cabinets rifle through.They throw things out;They put things in,And erase the writing on the wall,And by the time that they walk out,It's not my mind at all.

Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.

My hair is not the shiniest of bobsMy eyes are not the brightest in the roomMy figure will not get me modeling jobsMy smile will not bring young boys to their doom.But do I cry and mourn my average face?Or wish that I had boyfriends at the ready?Do I not sleep because I lose the race,Or spurn my food because I don't go steady?My mind is on a more important thingThat lifts my heart and makes my spirit soarI want to make the souls of people singAnd quiet down the mean and bullying roar.To help the wounded girls replace the scarWith the right to be exactly who they are.

Don't downgrade your dreams to upgrade your relationships.

Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.

You cannot really get married by mistake. You can only marry the wrong person.

The show became its own little world, with its own internal rhythm and high standards.

The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse. _ Calvin Coolidge

The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader." - Quoting Derek Sivers

Perhaps it__ true that in our sex-saturated culture it does take a certain amount of self-discipline to resist having sex, but restraint does not equal morality. And let__ be honest: if this were simply about resisting peer pressure and being strong, then the women who have sex because they actively want to _ as appalling as that idea might be to those who advocate abstinence _ wouldn__ be scorned. Because the __trength_ involved in these women__ choice would be about doing what they want despite pressure to the contrary, not about resisting the sex act itself.

Stay true to yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.

Be yourself because an original is always worth more than a copy.