If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

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"This has been my life; I found it worth living."

- Bertrand Russell

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

- Bertrand Russell

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"Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives."

- Bertrand Russell

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"Although both love and knowledge are necessary, love is in a sense more fundamental since it will lead intelligent people to seek knowledge in order to find out how to benefit those whom they love. But if people are not intelligent, they will be content to believe what they have been told and may do harm in spite of the most genuine benevolence."

- Bertrand Russell

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"“This has been my life; I found it worth living.”"

- Bertrand Russell

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"Beauty is a gentle and loving heart."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"There is no greater beauty than kindness and compassion."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"Selflessness is the most beautiful trait one can possess."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"A kind heart can bring light to the darkest of places."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us."

- Flora Edwards

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