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!
We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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