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"You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried."
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"Get this; without a continuous struggle, your previous struggles will become a waste. Stay on and hold on until the success become evident."
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Personal Development
"Whatever is difficult for you become easy if you take a bite of it every day. Try again and again!"
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Personal Development
"Persistence, perseverance, and continuous improvement are the ingredients for forming a successful person."
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Personal Development
"You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed."
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Personal Development
"Without discipline you would not go far in life."
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Personal Development
"God wants us to move persistently towards His goals."
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Personal Development
"For most of the process, nothing but faith, fueled by your own stubbornness, will be pulling you along. The work that you've done on the book so far won't be much comfort, because so much of it will be insufferable crap, until the very last moment, when you figure out how to fix it and everything comes together."
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Personal Development
"The third level of prayer, which is much more serious is knocking."
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Personal Development
"With patience, you will finish the race set before you."
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Personal Development
"In order to have success we have to make an effort and this demands persistent, diligent hard work."
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"He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn't work anymore. In fact, they'd never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world's more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked."
Longing
"Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the past. The past was set and sealed."
Change
"Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over."
Ethics
"Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it."
Family
"Time is what keeps things from happening all at once."
Philosophy
"She existed in her friends, there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them."
Identity
"Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even, instead of constructing a new grown-up life for herself. For years she'd been eating the cold crumbs left over from a great feast, living on them as though they could last her forever."
Transformation
"Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt good about yourself and worthy of it and generous enough to return it. You could flip it off when you needed to hide or self-destruct ad had nothing at all to give."
Love
"She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn't have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?"
Beauty
"Alice suspected Paul couldn't really picture his father, just like she couldn't picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you."
Emotion
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