How To Grow Old: Bertrand Russell On What Makes A Fulfilling Life • Discoverology

How To Grow Old: Bertrand Russell On What Makes A Fulfilling Life

An individual human existence should be like a river — small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly.

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