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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

Bertrand Russell
Happiness, People, Effort
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.90, Lulu Press, Inc

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

Bertrand Russell
Imagination, Effort, Desire
Bertrand Russell (2016). “Political Ideals”, p.16, Bertrand Russell

I must confess that I am deeply troubled. I fear that human beings are intent upon acting out a vast deathwish and that it lies with us now to make every effort to promote resistance to the insanity and brutality of policies which encompass the extermination of hundreds of millions of human beings.

Bertrand Russell
Lying, Effort, Insanity
Bertrand Russell (1967). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”

The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from his life removes an essential ingredient of happiness. [. . .] He forgets that to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell
Struggle, Animal, Effort
Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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