"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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Happiness
― Ashley Montagu
More From Ashley Montagu
- "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 one’s earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison."
- "There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring."
- "The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality."
More In Happiness
- "When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things – not the great occasions – that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness."― Bob Hope
- "Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."― Benjamin Disraeli
- "Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness."― Leon Trotsky