When work is viewed only as a source of economic gain the centrality of work becomes self-indulgence, selfishness and egocentrism.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

Your self-reliance, self-appraisal and self- perception depends on how successful you are at knowing who God has created you to become

The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.

Anything that feels good couldn't possibly be bad.

Developing the man within comes through self- awareness and self-education