In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
Franz Kafka

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
Martha Washington

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
Martha Washington

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
Freddie Mercury

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
Vittorio Alfieri

Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund Burke

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
Princess Diana

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Euripides

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Joseph Addison

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
George Santayana

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
George Santayana

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana