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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Bertrand Russell

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Acceptance Be Yourself Deep Fear

The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

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