The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too!
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
Adam Bede
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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