Bertrand Russell

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Happiness • Life • Love

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

Health • Stress • Work

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Happiness • Love

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Freedom • Materialism • Simplicity

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Acceptance • Innovation • Opinions

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Growth • Life • Priorities