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"You can endure every hardship with hope."
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"I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it's louder."
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Personal Development
"When relationship is gone, the strength for life is gone and there is no more energy to live."
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"The obstacles are man-made, so we can overcome with divine-strength."
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Personal Development
"Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine."
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"A thought can be cast down by speaking out loud words of resistance and words of God."
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"Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but it is not to silence them; it is to make them speak."
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"Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure."
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Personal Development
"As rain does not bother the ocean, nor heat bother the sun, so adversity does not bother the great."
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"There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness."
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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
"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
"Psyche you out?" I repeat. "I'm your FRIEND. I wouldn't do that." He doesn't say anything. I can tell he doesn't believe me-not quite."
Friendship
"I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave."
Bravery
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