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I seemed to myself - no doubt justly - a miserable specimen. Like others who had a Puritan education, I had the habit of meditating on my sins, follies, and shortcomings. But very largely it is due to a diminishing preoccupation with myself.

Partly it is due to having successfully dismissed certain objects of desire - such as the acquisition of indubitable knowledge about something or other - as essentially unattainable. This is due partly to having discovered what were the things that I most desired, and having gradually acquired many of these things. Now, on the contrary, I enjoy life I might almost say that with every year that passes I enjoy it more.

In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.

Quotes The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

The Conquest of Happiness (1930) is a book by Bertrand Russell, in which he attempts to diagnose the myriad causes of unhappiness in modern life and chart a path out of the seemingly inescapable malaise so prevalent even in safe and prosperous Western societies.