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Free Excerpt From The Book (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) We all want happiness for ourselves and our loved ones. But what is happiness? How can we achieve it? Is it a luxury available only to those who are rich, talented or beautiful? Or is it within everyone’s grasp?To answer these questions, the author draws upon the wisdom of some of history’s great thinkers: Epicurus, Epictetus, The Dalai Lama, Bertrand Russell, Aristotle, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. This book started out as a series of articles in Mind Your Body, a weekly health & well-being magazine that comes with Singapore’s national daily, The Straits Times. Comments from Mind Your Body readers: Thank you very much for writing those wonderful articles on happiness. The articles have helped me. I am rejuvenated. P.V. Anthony I have been reading your articles on The Pursuit of Happiness… They are very enlightening. I will keep them and also share them with my friends. Boon Pin I have enjoyed your articles on happiness and wish that I could read some more. They are very helpful in cheering us up and in guiding us in a difficult world. Jen I find your series of articles, The Pursuit of Happiness, highly inspirational and meaningful. In our modern society, where many people have the misconception that material wealth will be able to make us happy, your series serves to give us a new sense of direction in life, and allows us to gain different perspectives on happiness. Lee Hui Min Thank-you for the honour of sharing your articles. They are a very valuable spectrum of thoughts about happiness to me. I am sure they open many others’ perspectives about being happy. Ash Yeo I’d like to let you know that I look forward every Wednesday to reading your articles. Thank-you very much for them… I share them with my colleagues and friends. Tan Bee Yong I would like to commend you on the series on happiness that you wrote for The Straits Times. It was well-written and gave a brilliant insight on the meaning of true happiness and how to go about achieving it. Gary Wee Thank you very much for your excellent articles. They are insightful and very helpful. Is there anywhere in the internet that I can read all your articles related to happiness? … I can forward them to some of my dear friends who can definitely profit from your writing? A. C. Ho
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Gary Hayden is a freelance writer. His articles and stories appear in newsstand magazines in the UK, US, Australia, Singapore and South Africa. He’s a regular contributor to The Times Educational Supplement, The Straits Times and Take a Break (the UK’s best-selling magazine). He has a post-graduate degree in philosophy. |
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