"To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them."
"It is the ignorant person who seeks his or her own ends at the expense of the greater whole. It is the ignorant person, therefore, who is the selfish person. The truly wise person is never selfish."
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Source: Ralph Washington Sockman (1958). “Mans̓ First Love: The Great Commandment”
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