i am...motivated..by love? o_O

have you ever heard of those experiments where the scientist or teacher places a candy or marshmallow on a table, tells the kid that he's going to go outside and if, when he comes back, the kid still hasnt touched the candy/marshmallow, he'll give the kid a second one?

and then studies followed the kids some years later and found that the kids who were willing to wait tended to be more successful in life.

i thought about what i'd do if i were a kid placed in that situation (I LOVED CANDY i had like 3 cavities because of them :[ ) and interestingly enough, though im pretty sure i wouldve waited, my motivation would have been because i wanted to make the adult proud of me.

i think a lot of the things i do is not because i want to do them but because i'm motivated by others. because of this, it's extremely easy for me to do thing i normally wouldnt as long as someone asks me to (and them being there helps tremendously). no idea how i came to be this way

Courage

Courage is the resistance of fear, mastery of fear, not the absence of fear.  ~ Mark Twain

Criticism

When you judge others, you are revealing your own fears and prejudices.  ~ Jack Brown

Forgiveness

Don't carry a grudge.  While you're carrying the grudge the other guy's out dancing.  ~ Buddy Hackett

Friendship

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~ Chinese Proverb

Honesty

No legacy is so rich as honesty.  ~ William Shakespeare

Imagination

You see things that are and say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were and say, "Why not?"  ~George Bernard Shaw

Knowledge

We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything  ~ Thomas Edison