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Sarah Dessen

"It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn't want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering."

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"It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn't want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering."

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Donna Grant

"The most effective way to be self disciplined, is to submit yourself to your words."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"Your daily choices and actions should be rational and productive."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"An army of disciplined sheep is greater than an army of undisciplined wolves."

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Donna Grant

"There is no gift of principles, you must apply them if you want to move forward."

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Donna Grant

"The standards of this new time are forcing us to put our lives in order before God."

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Donna Grant

"Control yourself every passing second and make sure that no unit of time is being wasted."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"People should not expect to eat if they did not work."

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Sarah Dessen
"Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine."

Strength

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Sarah Dessen
"It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be."

Life

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Sarah Dessen
"All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real."

Authenticity

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Sarah Dessen
"Macy: "In Truth, I said, "there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.Wes: "How do you win? he askedMacy: "That, I said, "is such a boy question."

Truth

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Sarah Dessen
"Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth."

Honesty

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Sarah Dessen
"Family," she announced. "They're the people in your life you don't get to pick. The ones that are given to you,as opposed to those you get to choose.""You're bound to them by blood," she continued, her voice flat. "Which, you know, gives you that much more in common. Diseases, genetics, hair, and eye color. It's like they're part of your blueprint. If something's wrong with you, you can usually trace it back to them."I nodded and kept writing."But," she said, "even though you're stuck with them, at the same time, they're also stuck with you. So that's why they always get the front rows at christenings and funerals. Because they're the ones that are there, you know, from the beginning to the end. Like it or not."

Family

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Sarah Dessen
"As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real."

Psychology

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Sarah Dessen
"Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?"

Empowerment

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Sarah Dessen
"I'd made my choice, though, and I couldn't take it back."

Decision

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Sarah Dessen
"I don't think anybody ever really knows what's going to happen," he said. "We're all just out here hoping for the best."

Hope

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