I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“no wonder you left." Yeah," i say, rolling my eyes. " It was just because of the food.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Maybe there is some Abnegation in everyone. Well in everyone but Peter."-Tris Prior” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent. And I can’t be controlled.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Maybe there is some Abnegation in everyone, even if they don't know it.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
She tips her chin up and looks at me with that Abnegation stubbornness I know so well. She may have left them,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The love of woman is a precious treasure. Tenderness has no deeper source, devotion no purer shrine, sacrifice no more saintlike abnegation. — Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix Copy Share Image
The supreme blossoming of character lies (or reside) in renounciation (or renuncement) and abnegation of self ("abnégation de soi", Fr.) — African Spir Copy Share Image
A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Tris: Wait. So you have no idea what my aptitude is? Tori: Yes and No. My conclusion is that you display equal… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will,… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I wasn't good enough for abnegation," I say, "and I wanted to be free. So I chose Dauntless." "Why weren't you good… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
It is not to taste sweet things; but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“You choose this moment to act like the Abnegation?” His voice fills the room and makes fear prickle in my chest. His… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
We all have to lead our own life, and we only have the one life, and the only people who can live… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“Dear David, I’m sorry, but it’s not going to happen the way we planned it. I can’t do it. I know you’re… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I knew by the way he looked at her that he held her in a higher regard than he held even himself.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God . — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it. When they do, we remember. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It is the abnegation of self-will that gives room for the gods to enter through saints.” — Lois Mcmaster Bujold Copy Share Image