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"Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity shouldn't rely on it, because it's not guaranteed and it's not permanent and it's not sufficient. So work hard, fall in love with the writing-the characters, the story, the words, the themes-and make sure that you are who you are regardless of your life circumstances. That way, when the good things come, they don't warp you, and when the bad things hit you, you don't fall apart."
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"Get-rich-quick schemes are for the lazy & unambitious. Respect your dreams enough to pay the full price for them."
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"Leave the company of the people who are given you empty promises."
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Personal Development
"Believe be and strong enough in virtues like character, faithfulness, hard work, dignity of labor, diligence, excellence, perseverance, truth, responsibility, delayed gratification, contentment, trust, integrity and stop looking for miracles."
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"Truth is a T-Rex. Let it out and you won't need to defend it. It'll defend itself."
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"Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket."
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"If you see any country that is advanced and developed today, it is because that society is fundamentally based on principles of truth and honesty."
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"Do what is right not what is convenient."
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"People who have trouble questioning their own country often have trouble admitting fault in themselves, both of which come from insecurity and lack of humility."
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"Let your actions be the answer to criticism."
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"One must avoid snobbery and misanthropy. But one must also be unafraid to criticise those who reach for the lowest common denominator, and who sometimes succeed in finding it. This criticism would be effortless if there were no "people" waiting for just such an appeal. Any fool can lampoon a king or a bishop or a billionaire. A trifle more grit is required to face down a mob, or even a studio audience that has decided it knows what it wants and is entitled to get it. And the fact that kings and bishops and billionaires often have more say than most in forming appetites and emotions of the crowd is not irrelevant, either."
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"My body rises with the water. Instead of kicking my feet to stay abreast of it, I push all the air from my lungs and sink to the bottom. The water muffles my ears. I feel its movement over my face. I think about snorting the water into my lungs so it kills me faster, but I can't bring myself to do it. I blow bubbles from my mouth. Relax. I close my eyes. My lungs burn."
Despair
"We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another."
Virtue
"What is wrong with you?' I shake my head. 'Pull it together.' And that's what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoelace. I feel suffocated, but at least I feel strong."
Strength
"I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already."
Loneliness
"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"
Risk
"Damn,' someone behind me says. 'I was hoping we would get to scrape some Stiff pancake off the pavement later."
Violence
"I open my eyes and for the first time stare openly at my own reflection. My heart rate picks up as I do, like I am breaking the rules and will be scolded for it. It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else. Looking at myself now isn't like seeing myself for the first time; it's like seeing someone else for the first time. Beatrice was a girl I saw in stolen moments at the mirror, who kept quiet at the dinner table. This is someone whose eyes claim mine and don't release me; this is Tris."
Identity
"Intentions are the only thing they care about. They try to make you think they care about what you do, but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way, they want you to think a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you wont pose a threat to them."
Control
"I can't leave her now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I won't say it again."
Romance
"Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but i feel like when you believe something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can't help yourself."
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