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How to Become Beautiful
When you are a sincere person, you cannot afford to go
against your conscience or moral norms, but must follow the
spiritual line of conduct.
erbert W. Armstrong (1892 – 1986), the founder of
Hthe well-known American magazine The Plain Truth,
observed in one of his last articles that during his long
professional life, he had occasion to meet hundreds and
thousands of people from different denominations.
But he said that if he were asked what was the quality
in human beings that was the most scarce, even more
scarce than radium and platinum, he would certainly
say that it was sincerity. Sincerity was the noblest human
quality. But very few people would measure up to this
high ideal.
There are two different kinds of human behaviour
in this world – the sincere and the insincere. Sincere
behaviour is the result of adherence to principles, while
insincere behaviour shows a lack of principle. Insincere
behaviour or unprincipled behaviour is very easy to
indulge in. It doesn’t require much thought when one
allows the situation or the circumstances to determine
one’s behaviour. Without applying your mind, you
can follow the advice of the situation. You can easily
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