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!
Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.
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Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.
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