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Happiness Man World

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

- Sidney Sheldon

Quote of the Day

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

- Anita Diament

Other quotes by Sidney Sheldon

Men Man Life

Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine.

- Sidney Sheldon

Motivation

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

- Sidney Sheldon

Writing Life People

The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books.

- Sidney Sheldon

End People

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

- Sidney Sheldon

Writer First Years

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

- Sidney Sheldon

Success Care

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.

- Sidney Sheldon

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Happiness Soul

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.

- Horatio Nelson

Happiness People

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

- Mark Twain

Happiness

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

- Denis Waitley

Happiness People

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

- William Feather

Happiness Want

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

- Julia Roberts

Happiness Present Past

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

- Douglas Horton