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The Conquest of Happiness

“Should be read by every parent, teacher, minister, and Congressman in the land.”―The Atlantic In The Conquest of Happiness, first published by Liveright in 1930, iconoclastic philosopher Bertrand Russell attempte

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

— Bertrand Russell, amazon.com

Tagged: Happiness, Love, Joy, Happy

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

— Bertrand Russell, amazon.com

Tagged: love quotes, All for Love, Law OF Attraction, Love and Happiness

“The secret of happiness is this: 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, amazon.com

Tagged: Happiness, interests, Passion, Imagination, friendly

“All human activity is prompted by desire. There is a wholly fallacious theory advanced by some earnest moralists to the effect that it is possible to resist desire in the interests of duty and moral principle. I say this is fallacious, not because no man ever acts from a sense of duty, but because d…”

— Bertrand Russell, amazon.com

Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy