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The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure full of joy and hope, based rather upon the impulse to construct than upon the desire to retain what we possess

The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure full of joy and hope, based rather upon the impulse to construct than upon the desire to retain what we possess or to seize what is possessed by others.

Bertrand Russell
Adventure, Creative, Joy
Bertrand Russell (2013). “Roads to Freedom”, p.154, Routledge

In the daily lives of most men and women, fear plays a greater part than hope: they are more filled with the thought of the possessions that others may take from them, than of the joy that they might create in their own lives and in the lives with which they come in contact. It is not so that life should be lived.

Bertrand Russell
Men, Play, Joy
Bertrand Russell (2015). “Proposed Roads to Freedom”, p.135, Booklassic

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

Bertrand Russell
Happiness, Exercise, Joy
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.63, Lulu Press, Inc

If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh.

Bertrand Russell
Joy, Ends, Savour
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.16, Lulu Press, Inc

There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.

Bertrand Russell
Artist, Joy, Spread
"1967" by Bertrand Russell,

Joy of life... depends upon a certain spontaneity in regard to sex. Where sex is repressed, only work remains, and a gospel of work for work's sake never produced any work worth doing.

Bertrand Russell
Sex, Joy, Sake
Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.330, Routledge

In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man.

Bertrand Russell
Men, Profound, Joy
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.133, Lulu Press, Inc

Those whose lives are fruitful to themselves, to their friends, or to the world are inspired by hope and sustained by joy: they see in imagination the things that might be and the way in which they are to be brought into existence.

Bertrand Russell
Imagination, Joy, World
Bertrand Russell (2013). “Roads to Freedom”, p.139, Routledge

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