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!
If everybody spent enough time worrying about their own goddamn selves, no one would have to worry about anyone else.
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If everybody spent enough time worrying about their own goddamn selves, no one would have to worry about anyone else.
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