Bertrand Russell Quotes

I'm on good form. I'm an older guy. I feel healthy, I've been training, I'm looking after myself, I get up early. I look after the dogs. I'm happy.

The best part of health is fine disposition

Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.

The one who actually succeeds in making himself believe that he is having a good time is the man of splendid physical health.

I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.

What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.

[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

I think people still have a need for miracles. Science keeps telling them there's no life on Mars, there's no God, nothing's trailing Hale-Bopp, those people are just dead in their Nikes. But they want to believe in something.

I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.

We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.

When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write.

I don’t believe in adhering to any rules I don’t support and I didn’t vote for. To hell with what people think. Just be who you are and you’ll be happy.

All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.

I have food every day on the table, I have a family, friends, health - all the things without which it wouldn't matter how many roles I get to play.

Money to some extent sometimes let you be in more interesting environments. But it can't change how many people love you or how healthy you are.

I think most of us look at personal delights as somewhere between minimally important and borderline immoral. We like them, but we're not sure we ought to. We seldom give them a high priority when other demands are competing for our attention. Nevertheless, the soul feeds on simple joys and withers without them.

Singing when no one else is around is always good. I especially like belters. Good, loud singing is probably better medicine than half the stuff they sell in pill bottles, and it's cheaper, too. I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feel of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.

If we think happy thoughts, we will be happy. If we think miserable thoughts, we will be miserable.

Dear John, There's so much I want to say to you, but I'm not sure where I should begin. Should I start by telling you that I love you? Or that the days I've spent with you have been the happiest in my life? Or that in the short time I've known you, I've come to believe that we were meant to be together? I could say all those things and all would be true, but as I reread them, all I can think is that I wish I were with you now, holding your hand and watching your elusive smile.

I want to believe that happiness might at least be possible later on in life for people prone to sadness.

I'm healthier in California, probably a little happier, maybe.

The essence of power is the knowledge that what you do is going to have an effect not just an immediate but perhaps a lifelong effect on the happiness and wellbeing of millions of people and so I think the essence of power is to be conscious of what it can mean for others.

Judge your success by the degree that you're enjoying peace, health, and love.

I think it's time we recognized the Dark Ages are over. Galileo and Copernicus have been proven right. The world is in fact round; the Earth does revolve around the sun. I believe God gave us intellect to differentiate between imprisoning dogma and sound ethical science, which is what we must do here today.

Still, you tend to believe what you always believed, think what you always thought, expect what you always expected