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" Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America. "

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" The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it. "

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" The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness. "

" I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community. "

" Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever. "

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" Joys divided are increased. "

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" Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall. "

" Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. "

" Happiness is perhaps painlessness, a state one rarely appreciates. Happiness, then, is very much like a great talent. It rarely gets appreciated and is taken for granted. "

" There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. "

" No one is perfect... absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace. "

" The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque. "

" Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. "

" Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it's the ability to give. "

" If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. "

" Respect your partner. Be happy in your partner's happiness. "

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" Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. "

" Money can be a reflection of our perceptions of power, self-esteem, personal history, fears, and happiness. "

" Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. "

" I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage. "

" Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it. "

" Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. "

" Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning. "

" The suburbs have this veneer of happiness, you know? This veneer of the ideal life. From afar, it's all together - white picket fence, nice house - but you peel away one little layer, and it all comes crumbling down. "

" Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best. "

" Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. "

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" Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself. "

" In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love. "

" It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator. "

" Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. "

" My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive. "