"Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague."

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Source : Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.164, Courier Corporation

Norman Douglas

#Happiness Quotes #Giving Quotes #Body Quotes

“Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical faith in its non-mystical methods; above all-which perhaps most explains the expert's sovereignty-of external verities; of traffic-cop morality and rabbit-test truth.”
“I only follow one party: the Vietnamese Party.”
“True zeal is connected with a holy life. It is remarkable how often the greatest zealots for God, the Church, and sound doctrine (as they regard it), have been unholy and even immoral in their lives.”
“It is ironic that the scientific facts throw Darwin out, but leave William Paley, a figure of fun to the scientific world for more than a century, still in the tournament with a chance of being the ultimate winner... Indeed, such a theory is so obvious that one wonders why it is not widely accepted as being self-evident. The reasons are psychological rather than scientific.”
“Having kids had a big effect on me, but nothing more than when they started to get older- that really made me realize how fleeting each moment is.”
“Being your true self is the most effective formula for success there is.”

Source : FaceBook post by Danielle LaPorte from Jan 23, 2012
“Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.”
“And itâ€™s not like Iâ€™ve never jacked off. Iâ€™m fifteen years old. Of course I do it. Any guy who says he doesnâ€™t is lying. That would be like having the coolest video game ever and never playing it. No oneâ€™s that stupid.”

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