Bertrand Russell on happiness: I think that whatever personal rule of life you may choose, it should not, except in rare heroic cases, be incompatible with happiness.
There are a great many people who have the material conditions of happiness, ie health and a sufficient income, and who, nevertheless, are profoundly unhappy. In such cases it would seem as if the fault must lie with a wrong theory as to how to live...
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