Nothing From Nothing

If you serve only yourself,

You serve nothing.

If you love only yourself,

You love nothing.

If you cling only to yourself,

You hold nothing.

If you wish to please only yourself,

You please nothing.

If you have only things as pleasures,

You have nothing.

If your thoughts wrestle with tomorrow,

You struggle with nothing.

If you strive to amass only wealth,

You count for nothing.

If you hunger for the approval of others,

You starve for nothing.

If you only aim and win the world’s applause,

You hear nothing.

If you are wise in only the ways of this world,

You have learned nothing.

If you are alive only for yourself,

You live for nothing.