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I no longer felt drained; instead, I felt exhilarated. No more being confronted with my mistakes!

I needed to clear away the detritus in my mind.

With extrinsic motivation, people act to win external rewards or avoid external punishment; with intrinsic motivation, people act for their own satisfaction. Studies show that if you reward people for doing an activity, they often stop doing it for fun; being paid turns it into “work." Parents, for example, are warned not to reward children for reading - they’re teaching kids to read for a reward, not for pleasure.

I am a woman of power, wonder and strength. #simple

When Denise whined about the torn sofa, my mother was savvy enough to see the liability as an opportunity and used it to teach us how truly rich we were.

It was as if they were rejecting that stuffed pepper, which contains every imaginable flavor; sweet as candied citron, juicy as a pomegranate, with the bit of pepper and subtlety of walnuts, that marvelous chile in walnut sauce. Within it lies the secret of love, but it will never be penetrated, and all because it wouldn't be proper.

A man equal to loving someone who needed love as much as she did, a man like him.

What you don't say over and over, people forget. So, I keep saying what was important over and over and over, so you would remember. <3

They do ordinary things with great care. And yet, they have a certain presence, genuineness, an endearing spark. They simply shine.

The sound was quite clear, she could hear a baby chick peeping inside the shell.