Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. - Bertrand Russell

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead."

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

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

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."