Commitment

Commitment, like a promise, is a kind of unwritten law.

Never make a commitment you cannot keep. Don't drag out a relationship you cannot ultimately fulfill, wasting both your time and opportunities. If there are words you know you cannot honor in the end, say so upfront and apologize—whether in love or business. Relationships require transparency. Self-respect is one of life's greatest treasures.

Before entering into any relationship, calculate whether your family or society will accept it. After the relationship deepens, after the attachment grows strong and the other person becomes mentally dependent on you, it's too late to suddenly remember your family and think, "They won't approve." Where was your family when love began? Better to face bitterness early than later.

Perhaps many calculations in their life changed because they got involved with you—there might have been better options and opportunities they sacrificed for your sake. To say sorry after it's too late makes you a fool.

Some damages can never be compensated by anything. What won't work out in the end, end it at the beginning. Or what you've started willingly, try to see through to the end.

You might settle down somewhere else according to your family's wishes and live quite well, but have you considered the terrible harm you've done to the other person? Because of your behavior, they won't be able to love anyone from the heart a second time. You may leave their life, but you'll remain in their mind. Because of you, even when the right person enters their life, they won't be able to trust or believe them. A suppressed anguish, a burn scar on the heart—they'll carry this silently for life. From the outside everything will look fine, but inside the person will be broken and shattered. The entire responsibility is yours!

Even when they try to laugh with their lips fully spread in hearty laughter, the smile won't come to their face. They won't be able to live with the same exuberance and enthusiasm as before. Yet without you, their life would have been different. Instead of you, the right person would have come into their life. Because you came, everything ended for them.

If you cannot help someone, at least don't harm them—this is pure sin. Don't hurt someone who worshipped you, who gave you precious time from their life, who trusted you more than themselves.

The person you're abandoning to hell with excuses and pretenses—perhaps someone else would have cherished them like a crown jewel.

Relationships are not frivolous matters; hearts are not toys to play with.

Every person should have basic honesty and a little common sense. Reading books by the bagful and earning expensive degrees doesn't make someone human or educated.

How just you are toward others determines whether you're truly human or an animal.

There are already too few real humans in this world. The world needs principled people in their work more than highly educated or expensive people. Because whatever kind of person you are, your generation will be the same. If you're an animal, your generation will be animals; if you're principled, your generation will learn to be principled too.

Rather than becoming educated with big degrees, be a good person with small common sense. The world has no shortage of animals—only humans are scarce. Enter the competition to become human—there are fewer competitors there.