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"Live by your impulses, and you'll be just like them. You're better than that, aren't you, Red?"
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"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
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"If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves."
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"Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity."
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"Never worry about what you can't control...Focus on what you can."
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Personal Development
"It is wise for people to learn how to control their emotions instead of allowing it to overwhelm them and making them behaves irrational."
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"Discipline is when we delay our gratifications."
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"But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant's grip - one's faculties rise in revolt - and one pays for outward calm with an almost unbearable inner struggle."
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Personal Development
"Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
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"A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean - or what we really think."
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Personal Development
"It is much easier to concentrate the mind on external things, than to concentrate on the mind itself. For example, a Neuroscientist can be the smartest man (or woman) on earth in his understanding of the human mind. He may know all the neurochemical changes underlying an outrageous behavior of a person. But when he gets mad himself, very little of his own scientific intellect would actually come in handy for him to control his rage. The virtue of self-control is a skill, which requires practice, regardless of all the neurobiological expertise in the world."
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Explore more quotes by Neal Shusterman
"We are, however, creatures of containment. We want all things in life packed into boxes that we can label. But just because we have the ability to label it, doesn't mean we really know what's in the box.It's kind of religion. It gives us comfort to believe we have defined something that is, by its very nature, indefinable. As to whether or not we've gotten it right, well, it's all a matter of faith."
Philosophy
"And," added Mikey. "she's my sister."The others looked at him for a moment, and broke out laughing."Yeah, yeah," Squirrel scoffed, "and the McGill is my cousin."Now Allie burst out laughing, which made Mikey more annoyed."If the McGill was your cousin," Mikey said, "I can guarantee he'd disown you."
Humor
"We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I'm pleased to be in the light."
Balance
"Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power."
Responsibility
"We're roughage," Tyger said. "If we don't cause a little intestinal distress, no one knows we're there."
Satire
"The accountant lingers at his children's doorway a moment more, listening to the easy rhythm of their breathing, and something cold moves through him, like the passage of a ghost - but he know that's not it. It's more like the portent of a future. A future that must never come to pass......and for the first time, he gives rise to a thought that is silently echoed in millions of homes that night. My God... what have we done?"
Future
"I suppose even a simple slogan can be twisted into whatever shape we want, like a balloon animal-we can even make it loop back around on itself, becoming a noose. In the end, the measure of who we are can be seen in the shapes of our balloon animals."
Self
"One thing yo learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light."
Morality
"The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when 'should be' gets crushed by what is."
Potential
"I can't help what I have any more than you can help what you don't."
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