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"It wasn't hard going to the gym, as long as he went as soon as he woke up, before he had time to think about not going. Those morning workouts made him feel like he was starting his day like a pinball, with a giant shot of momentum. The feeling sometimes didn't wear off until six or seven at night (when it was usually overtaken by the feeling that he was just bouncing haplessly from one situation to the next without any real purpose or direction)."
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"The most effective way to be self disciplined, is to submit yourself to your words."
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"Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it's always because they know why."
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"Your daily choices and actions should be rational and productive."
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"The one who straightens out himself will attain moksha [will be liberated]. If you don't straighten out, people will beat you into doing so. The doorway to moksha [ultimate liberation] is narrow, so how will you be able to enter if you are obstinate?"
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"An army of disciplined sheep is greater than an army of undisciplined wolves."
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"There is no gift of principles, you must apply them if you want to move forward."
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"The standards of this new time are forcing us to put our lives in order before God."
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"Control yourself every passing second and make sure that no unit of time is being wasted."
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"If you understand that a wasted time is a wasted life, you will start running away from television, you will begin to run away from movies, you will run away from games like criminal case and candy crush."
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"People should not expect to eat if they did not work."
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"There was something about the music on that tape. It felt different. Like, it set her lungs and her stomach on edge. There was something exciting about it, and something nervous. It made Eleanor feel like everything, like the world, wasn't what she'd thought it was. And that was a good thing. That was the greatest thing."
Emotion

"I can't help but think,' Park would say during taekwando. 'I can't turn off my brain."
Mind

"Just because it had happened before didn't mean it wasn't serious. It didn't mean he didn't need them."
Relationship

"She started dialing his cell, then hung up and tried the landline -- maybe Margaret was a better bet to pick up; their parents' generation still felt morally obligated to answer phones."
Society

"They were almost never alone, and now that they almost-practically were, he felt kind of frantic for her attention."
Affection

"Cath liked Levi. A lot. She liked looking at him. She liked listening to him -- though sometimes she hated listening to him talk to other people. She hated the way he passed out smiles to everyone he met like it didn't cost him anything, like he'd never run out. He made everything look so easy."
Love

"If this was just a dream she wished she could have it every night. Neal not quite whispering sweet somethings into her ear."
Desire

"Seriously, why aren't you on drugs?" Cath walked past her out of the room."Are you a licensed psychiatrist? Or do you just play one on TV?""I'm on drugs," Reagan said. "They're a beautiful thing."
Mental Health

"It was the nicest thing she could imagine. It made her want to have his babies and give him both of her kidneys."
Love

"The problem with playing hide-and-seek with your sister is that sometimes she gets bored and stops looking for you.And there you are - under the couch, in the closet, wedged behind the lilac tree - and you don't want to give up, because maybe she's just biding her time. But maybe she's wandered off..."
Childhood
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