Quote by Bertrand Russell
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumst

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. – Bertrand Russell

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One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. – Bertrand Russell

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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. – Bertrand Russell

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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness. – Milan Kundera

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye. – Austin OMalley

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Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. – Norm Papernick

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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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