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

Other quotes by Bertrand Russell

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives mouths. – Bertrand Russell

Category:
Men
Read Quote

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. – Bertrand Russell

Category:
Death
Read Quote

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires. – Bertrand Russell

Category:
good
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Happiness
category

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. – John Mason Brown

Category:
Happiness

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self? – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Happiness

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. – Martha Washington

Category:
Happiness

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Category:
Happiness

Random Quotes

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. – Charles Lamb, 1821

Squash is boxing with racquets. – Jonah Barrington

Category:
Sports

What the people believe is true. – American Indian Proverb

Alaska is what happens when Willy Wonka and the witch from Hansel and Gretel elope, buy a place together upstate, renounce their sweet teeth, and turn into health fanatics. – Sloane Crosley

Category:
Health