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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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The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family gets together alone. – 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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Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. – François VI de la Rochefoucault

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There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy. – Joyce Grenfell

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The greatest happiness is to transform ones feelings into action. – Madame de Stael

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