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“It is a basic human need that everyone wants to live a happy life. For this, one has to experience real happiness. The so-called happiness that one experiences by having money, power, and indulging in sensual pleasures is not real happiness. It is very fragile, unstable and fleeting. For real happiness, for lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and get rid of all the unhappiness stored in the deeper levels of the mind. As long as there is misery at the depth of the mind all attempts to feel happy at the surface level of the mind prove futile.”
Source : S. N. Goenka (2012). “Meditation Now: Inner Peace through Inner Wisdom”, p.42, Pariyatti Publishing
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“I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny.”
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“My definition of confidence is how you feel about yourself, and not letting the external world define you.”
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“Good luck and good timing are the same thing.”
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“What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part.”
Source : "Archbishop of Canterbury speaks out". "The Religion Report" with Stephen Crittenden, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2002. 
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“Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess pieces down on the board at once, and said, "Here! Have them all!”
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“Being in grief, it turns out, is not unlike being in love. In both states, the imagination's entirely occupied with one person. The beloved dwells at the heart of the world, and becomes a Rome: the roads of feeling all lead to him, all proceed from him. Everything that touches us seems to relate back to that center: there is no other emotional life, no place outside the universe of feeling centered on its pivotal figure.”
Source : Mark Doty (1996). “Heaven's Coast: A Memoir”, Harpercollins
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“We need to see ourselves as basic miracles.”
