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Hope Happens!: Words of Encouragement for Times of Change

This book offers a compilation of motivational messages and reflections, aiming to provide solace and encouragement to those facing transformative moments in their lives. more

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Catherine DeVrye
Catherine DeVrye

Catherine DeVrye, born on September 29, 1950, is an individual who has achieved recognition in an unspecified field. Her life story and specific contributions are not well-documented. more

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“In fact, I think that our society expects schools to get students to the point where they do things only for outside rewards. People who perform tasks for their internal reasons are hard to control. Now, I don't think teachers get up in the morning and say to themselves, 'I', going to go to school today and take away all those young people's internal motivations' ...but that's exactly what often happens.”

“To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the complete and utter end of my existence, with no successor existence of any kind that can be related to me as I now am. And if that is not the case, the next most likely scenario, it seems to me, is something along the lines indicated by Schopenhauer. But neither of these is what I most want. What I want to be true is that I have an individual, innermost self, a soul, which is the real me and which survives my death. That too could be true. But alas, I do not believe it.”