If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to dema

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.

Author: Bertrand Russell

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Of all forms of caution caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

To fear love is to fear life and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

He who would travel happily must travel light.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.

It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.