Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. – Burton Hills

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. – Doug Larson

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. – William Shakespeare

Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don’t go through life creaking. – H.W. Byles

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. – Bertrand Russell

What I’m looking for is a blessing that’s not in disguise. – Kitty O’Neill Collins

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. – Bertrand Russell

The only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness in this life, is not to worry about the future or regret the past too much. – Mel Gibson

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. – John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1873

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