The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain. And when you feel the pain and go beyond it, you'll see there's a very intense love that is wanting to awaken itself. — Deepak Chopra

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Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive. — Daniel H. Pink

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I didn’t want to be an artist in the same place I worked. You could always have people that might feel like you would do something more for yourself. – DJ Khaled

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How you look and how you feel: they’re the same. — Bobbi Brown

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Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved. ― Roy T. Bennett

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Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

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If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

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Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose ― Leonardo da Vinci

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To learn something new, you need to try new things and not be afraid to be wrong. ― Roy T. Bennett

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It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. ― Sinclair Lewis

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