Happiness comes when we forget ourselves, and misery when we can’t think about anybody else.

God commands, “Don’t think only about your own affairs, but be interested in others, too.”

The basic principles of his way of life cut straight through to the despair of his fellows and found it groundless. By inference he says, “You must abandon your fear of each other and fear only God. You must not indulge in any deception and dishonesty, even to save your lives. Your words must be Yea—Nay; anything else is evil. Hatred is destructive

When you die, will you know that you have given yourself utterly to the world, to your woman, to your family, holding nothing back? Or are you still like a little boy eagerly performing for the sake of mom’s applause? Very little helps you mature beyond neediness more than the appreciation you want from your woman, but don’t get.