The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

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.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.

Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect, but that you have looked beyond its imperfections.