What one human being can be to another is not a very great deal; in the end everyone stands alone; and the important thing is, who it is that stands alone . . . . The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings . . . . The world in which a man lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he looks at it . . . . Since everything which exists or happens for a man exists only in his consciousness, and happens for him alone, the most essential thing for a man is the constitution of his consciousness . . . . Therefore it is with great truth
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