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Joy: Bertrand Russell Quote
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.

Wisdom: Bertrand Russell Quote
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of he main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Courage: Bertrand Russell Quote
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Happiness: Bertrand Russell Quote
Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Happiness: Bertrand Russell Quote
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Funny: Bertrand Russell Quote
Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.

Happiness: Bertrand Russell Quote
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Self Discipline: Bertrand Russell Quote
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.

Happiness: Bertrand Russell Quote
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Funny: Bertrand Russell Quote
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.

Courage: Bertrand Russell Quote
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Courage: Bertrand Russell Quote
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Belief: Bertrand Russell Quote
What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

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