Originally posted by JazzFunk
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I don't believe anybody who focuses mostly on themselves can be truly happy. I don't care who it is, I don't care how perfect their life seems outwardly, I don't care how rich or famous or handsome they are. Nobody measures up to their own ideals, everybody comes up short, and everybody lets themselves down, everybody is able to reflect on all the times they failed to be good, to be their best, to bring tenderness or kindness or patience at a time when it was needed. Furthermore everybody hides certain facets of their personality and so, in some sense, everybody feels a bit of a fraud. But when you do something nice for someone else, something selfless, it's a good act. And how can goodness not feel good? It's so simple. What was it Marcus Aurelius said, "virtue is its own reward".
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