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!
I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings.
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I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings.
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