When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
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About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Personal moral choices directly impact one's own emotional state.
- In plain terms
- Doing right makes you feel good, doing wrong makes you feel bad.
- What can you take from it?
- Your conscience guides your happiness.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What action made you feel good recently?
- Does guilt always follow bad deeds?
Another view
Sometimes doing good does not immediately lead to feeling good.
More from Abraham Lincoln
What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.
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