You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.