The Archive · 1929

No Easy Matter

To understand people we must understand ourselves. our good and bad points. Our motives spring not from reason but from emotion, which is the driving force of our Our emotional: tone changes from time to time and according to our environment. "We are different in the morning frown in the evening; we seem to take on a new self when we are swith congenial and sympathetic' friends.

Health also affects the emotional life, We are more liable to yield to temptation when we are sick or sorry. We act differently when we are stirred by love or ambit artistic creation. In truth, very difficult to understand anybody, one can so seldom understand oneself.

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