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!
Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?
Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers
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Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?
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