Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love.
It is reached when a man deliberately turns
his back on all help from anyone else in order
to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.
Thomas Merton
The surest way to unhappiness is to concentrate only on myself.
The surest remedy is to pray, not for my own comfort, but for God to bless someone else.
If self-centeredness is contributing to oury unhappiness, focusing some attention on others is the way out.
I always get help for the blues by offering a hand to another or accepting a hand myself.
I can avoid despair by looking beyond myself.
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