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do you know to what a point of insanity a woman can sometimes love?

From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse, a hundred suspicions don't make a proof.

“What, the priest? I don’t want him. You haven’t got a rouble to spare. I have no sins. God must forgive me without that. He knows how I have suffered…. And if He won’t forgive me, I don’t care!”

He looked at Sonia and felt how great was her love for him, and strange to say he felt it suddenly burdensome and painful to be so loved. Yes, it was a strange and awful sensation!

And do you know, Sonia, that low ceilings and tiny rooms cramp the soul and the mind?

“Because I couldn't bear my burden and have come to throw it on another: you suffer too, and I shall feel better! And can you love such a mean wretch?”

“Because I couldn't bear my burden and have come to throw it on another: you suffer too, and I shall feel better! And can you love such a mean wretch?”

It was one of Katerina Ivanovna's characteristics to paint everyone she met in the most glowing colours.

Perhaps the chief element was that peculiar "poor man's pride," which compels many poor people to spend their last savings on some traditional social ceremony, simply in order to do "like other people," and not to "be looked down upon.

Everything which is of use to mankind is honourable.

Pointing and calling - Japanese railway system

Pointing and calling - Japanese railway system

Four Laws of behaviour change:
Cue - Make it Obvious
Craving - Make it Attractive
Response - Make it Easy
Reward - Make it Satisfying

Whenever you want to change your behaviour, you can simply ask yourself:

1. How can I make it obvious?
2. How can I make it attractive?
3. How can I make it easy?
4. How can I make it satisfying?

Cue - Make it Obvious
Craving - Make it Attractive
Response - Make it Easy
Reward - Make it Satisfying

Whenever you want to change your behaviour, you can simply ask yourself:

1. How can I make it obvious?
2. How can I make it attractive?
3. How can I make it easy?
4. How can I make it satisfying?

Cue - Make it Obvious
Craving - Make it Attractive
Response - Make it Easy
Reward - Make it Satisfying

Cue is about noticing the reward. The craving is about wanting the reward. The response is about obtaining the reward.

Cue, Craving, Response and Reward

Behaviour followed by satisfying consequences tends to be repeated and those that produce unpleasant consequences are less likely to be repeated.