· Personal Happiness is not possible

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Now that title might seem a bit shocking, but think about this for a moment: An egoistic person will never really feel happy, so if you strive for your own happiness, that is an impossible goal, but you can make someone happy even if for a moment. So we are the source of our one another's happiness, but not of our own.

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