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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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"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."
"Godliness should promote the posture worth of exercise and fitness."
"In the absence of self-control, this primordial nature of the limbic brain often compels the mind to give in to evils of corruption."
"Every unit of time that passes daily should be accounted for."
"Working hard denies oneself from instant gratification."
"You are either going to go through the pain of disappointment or discipline in your life. The latter makes the pain worth it."
"If you always want to have whatever you want any time you want it with no delays, and denial of self, you would end up ruining your life."
"You cannot desire to be great when you cannot even focus on 8 hours of work a day."
"By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?"
"You have a shot at success if you can discipline yourself to eliminate the limiting thoughts from within and the disempowering words from without."
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"At the end of the day -- after work, after trying to spend some sort of meaningful time with Alice and Noomi --Georgie was usually too tired to make things right with Neal before they fell asleep. So things stayed wrong."
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