“I’m not sure bravery is something you acquire more of with age, like wisdom—but maybe here, in Dauntless, bravery is the highest form of wisdom, the acknowledgment that life can and should be lived without fear.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The Son
“maybe here, in dauntless, bravery is the highest form of wisdom. the acknowledgement that life can and should be lived without fear”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The Son
“That’s what I really want—to shed all the people who want to form and shape me, one by one, and learn instead to form and shape myself.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The Son
“I’ve faced my fears so many times in simulations, but that doesn’t mean I’m ready to face them in reality.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The Son
“I think I just don't like when I'm not given a choice”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The Son
“Power should be given only to those who earn it”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The Son
“He'd rather have anyone but you. He's not going to give you more than an inch in any direction. So good luck with your short leash.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from The Son
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“We were not meant for this. We were meant to live and love and play and work and even hate more simply and directly. It is only through outrageous violence that we come to see this absurdity as normal, or to not see it at all. Each new child has his eyes torn out so he will not see, his ears removed so he will not hear, his tongue ripped out so he will not speak, his mind juiced so he will not think, and his nerves scraped so he will not feel. Then he is released into a world broken in two: others, like himself, and those to be used. He will never realize that he still has all of his senses, if only he will use them. If you mention to him that he still has ears, he will not hear you. If he hears, he will not think. Perhaps most dangerously of all, if he thinks he will not feel. And so on, again.”
― Derrick Jensen, quote from The Culture of Make Believe
“What distinguishes leaders in medicine goes far beyond that knowledge, into interpersonal skills like empathy, conflict resolution, and people development.”
― Daniel Goleman, quote from Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
“In wine was truth, perhaps, but in whisky, the way Hoffman sluiced it down, was an army of imaginary rats climbing your legs.”
― Ross Macdonald, quote from The Chill
“Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it's a trade-off that will gladly be made.”
― Arthur Nersesian, quote from The Fuck-Up
“The rush to California, for instance, and the attitude, not merely of merchants, but of philosophers and prophets, so called, in relation to it, reflect the greatest disgrace on mankind. That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society! And that is called enterprise!”
― Henry David Thoreau, quote from Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
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