“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.”
More from Bertrand Russell on Happiness
“The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.”
“To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.”
“...what is the use of making everybody rich if the rich themselves are miserable?”
“Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.”
Others on Happiness
Dalai Lama
12 quotes“The secret to my own happiness, my own good future, is within my own hands. I must not miss that opportunity!”
Jane Austen
10 quotes“But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.”
Anne Frank
8 quotes“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”
Leo Tolstoy
6 quotes“Happiness is pleasure without regret”
Aristotle
6 quotes“Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.”
Alexandre Dumas
6 quotes“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more...”
André Gide
5 quotes“To win one's joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.”
Charles Schulz
5 quotes“Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
5 quotes“A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.”
George Santayana
5 quotes“I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including opti...”
Albert Camus
5 quotes“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
Albert Schweitzer
5 quotes“The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.”