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"Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?"I raise my eyebrows.She raises hers, too, mimicking me."The moments that don't suck," she says. "The trick is to notice them when they come around."
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"It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?' A grin. 'You."
Compassion
"I grabbed hold of my Divergence like it was a hand outstretched to save me. I needed that word to tell me who I was when everything else was coming apart around me. But now I'm wondering if I need it anymore, if we ever really need these words, 'Dauntless,' 'Erudite,' 'Divergent,' "Allegiant,' or if we can just be friends or lovers or siblings, defined instead by the choices we make and the love and loyalty that binds us."
Identity
"A harsh crack followed the rumble of thunder, a lightning strike. With that, the other musicians began to play, bringing in the tinkling sounds of light rain, the deeper thrum of thicker droplets. The others played the crashing waves, the lapping of water against a nonexistent shore. All around us were the sounds of water, dripping from faucets, gushing from waterfalls."
Art
"He is stronger than anyone I know, & warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, & will keep, for the rest of my life."
Trust
"She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless."
Memory
"Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places."
Knowledge
"Ingenuity requires creativity."
Innovation
"What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them."
Character
"When someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself."
Ethics
"Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible faith is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that "something" is a fake bathroom break."
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"People with victim mentality attracts people in their lives that tease them, abuse them and even bully them instead of building mutually benefitting relationships."
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"Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life."
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Personal Development
"God is not coming to fix any nation. The most he could do is to raise up a man or a woman who would take responsibility to fix the nation."
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Personal Development
"There are few things more destructive than thoughts believed without question."
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Personal Development
"The tragedy of our age is that a greater percentage of people living today are only living in the dream world."
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Personal Development
"If you think everybody hates you, then your ignorance is beyond the limit, because there's a loving heart somewhere longing to see your face."
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Personal Development
"Intuition is beyond the scope of our mind, it is surprising, but it is the fact of life."
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Personal Development
"Like many people who became sick, I found that researching man-made radiation immersed me into a corporate world of lie, confuse and deny."
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Personal Development
"You hear with your ears, but you listen with an open mind."
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Personal Development
"I think this is one bad side of a mirror; it helps us to see the reflection of the effects of our own actions on ourselves. We smile and it smiles back to us, we frown and it frowns to us. How I wish it shows us the reflections of the effects of our actions on other people as well so that we will be conscious!"
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