Quote by Ashley Montagu
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not t

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. – Ashley Montagu

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It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in ones earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison. – Ashley Montagu

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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality. – Ashley Montagu

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Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. – Ashley Montagu

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are. – Palmer Sondreal

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A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it. – Theodor Adorno

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When ambition ends, happiness begins. – Thomas Merton

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus. – Malcolm Muggeridge

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