How To Use Happiness In A Sentence

  • With a little coo of happiness he began to toddle forwards into the darkness, still clutching his bottle. MY BABYSITTER BITES BACK
  • Wish you success in your career and happiness of your family!
  • We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. 
  • She provides love, companionship and entertainment, and brings so much happiness to my life.
  • On this special day that belongs to you,I'd like to tell you the happiness we share means more than I can show.With all my heart,I'm wishing the joy the whole year through.Happiness always!
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  • A cheery Christmas and the New Year hold lots of happiness for you!
  • Even in the straight world of economics, where production and tangibles were once central, indices of happiness, creativity and other non-material values have taken centre stage.
  • Her name means happiness, but she is a widow with five children who makes ends meet by washing clothes for the neighbourhood and preparing injera, the unleavened bread prepared today as it was 1000 years ago.
  • I'd bet to take the happiness of this life, how do you be willing to let me lose.
  • Fake happiness until you feel it.
  • “But suppose, Maggie, —suppose it was a man who was not conceited, who felt he had nothing to be conceited about; who had been marked from childhood for a peculiar kind of suffering, and to whom you were the day-star of his life; who loved you, worshipped you, so entirely that he felt it happiness enough for him if you would let him see you at rare moments——”15 IV. Another Love-Scene. Book V—Wheat and Tares
  • Society may be full of poisonous vapors and be built on a framework of lies; it is nevertheless prudent to consider whether the ideal advantages of disturbing it overweigh the practical disadvantages, and above all to bear in mind that if you rob the average man of his illusions, you are almost sure to rob him of his happiness. Henrik Ibsen
  • Wish you a whole world of happiness now that your birthday is here.May your memories today be warm ones.May your dreams today be dear.may your joy last through the year.
  • My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. Ayn Rand 
  • Your bank balance depends entirely on your salary but your happiness balance depends solely on you.
  • Even one day lost in misery is a great loss, for the day will never come back again. You lose 24 hours of happiness, joy & bliss. Live each day in happiness. RVM 
  • Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
  • Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace of happiness
  • We all desire happiness and health.
  • She was unable to contain her happiness.
  • But the fruitarians might have a word to say about that, as they eat only fruit in their quest for health and happiness.
  • When the cup of human life is so overflowing with woe and pain and misery, it seems to me a narrow dilettanteism or downright charlatanism to devote one's self to petty or bizarre problems which can have no relation to human happiness, and to prate of self-satisfaction and self-expression. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
  • I didn't think that I could ever trust happiness. Then I met you.Happy Valenti ne's Day, Dear.
  • Contentment is the foundation of true happiness. The happiness that comes from fulfilling desires can never be permanent. RVM 
  • Graduation is a time for rejoining and is also a time for reflection.You will be going out into the world to make a career for yourself.Wish you well in all your understandings and hope that you will find your career a source of great joy and happiness.
  • The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful. Mitch Albom 
  • Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief. Nicholas Sparks 
  • There is no magic formula that will transform sorrow into happiness.
  • An excellent example of this return is the new psychological science of happiness, represented, for example, by the fundamental work of Edward Diener.
  • But to frame an abstract idea of happiness, prescinded from all particular pleasure, or of goodness from everything that is good, this is what few can pretend to. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley
  • Making someone happy is perhaps the humblest way of approaching happiness.
  • He'd like "happiness" to be given a new and more scientifically descriptive label, to wit "Major affective disorder, pleasant type".
  • In short, these kind of hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune, who may be considered as thus playing tricks with us, and wantonly diverting herself at our expense. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  • The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. Henry Ward Beecher 
  • I was going to go into the types of medication one can take to numb their emotions and fill their empty husk with medical happiness, but I'm far too depressed for that now.
  • She implored me -- she used the word 'implore' -- to fly from her, to leave her to her fate, to endeavour to find happiness with some one else. Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 1
  • We are very happy to extend to you our utmost congratulations on your finishing your college course so successfully.May you enter a more successful life and the future years bring you continued happiness.
  • It is not true suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. 
  • How fabulous is it that the pursuit of happiness and self-fulfillment can be achieved with the help of the diving industry!
  • French language (a thing indispensable to the happiness of married life), piano-playing (a thing wherewith to beguile a husband’s leisure moments), and that particular department of housewifery which is comprised in the knitting of purses and other Dead Souls
  • Alfred Nobel, by the expression of his lofty ideals, has recognized the importance of science and creative accomplishments in augmenting human happiness. George R. Minot - Banquet Speech
  • Every good wish on your wedding day. Wishing you a world of happiness and love as all your dreams come true.
  • Wealth is not necessarily synonymous with happiness.
  • He who talks much of his happiness summons grief. 
  • That is the eternalist view, that if we could just have this happiness or have enough of it or not lose it, this would eliminate all of our problems. Happiness: An In-Depth Analysis of Its Role in Sutra and Tantra ��� Session Two: Recognizing the Various Levels of Happiness
  • Nothing will assure permanent happiness to me.
  • Best wishes for a lifetime of love and happiness.
  • -- They lived together; and when Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20_000L. any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learnt to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head. Mansfield Park
  • Everybody wants happiness.No one wants pain.But how can you make a rainbow without a little rain?
  • Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him. Blaise Pascal 
  • Even short, 20 second tracks give me a rush of happiness, because I can see scenes of the movie again in my mind.
  • Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace of happiness
  • We all deserve the pursuit of happiness. Times, Sunday Times
  • On the other hand … happiness, contentedness and serenity fill me with the desire t0 love life and live it to the max … this is best achieved in the real world with real people … and writing about that seems dull by comparison. The pages are still blank « Write Anything
  • Happiness is the satisfaction of all our desires; extensive, in regard to their multiplicity; intensive, in regard to their degree; and protensive, in regard to their duration. The Critique of Pure Reason
  • Add a glass of gin and a meat pie for the listener, and all is happiness. Times, Sunday Times
  • Wishing you every happiness when Christmas is near, and expressing appreciation for your cares and concerns during the year.
  • Village fairs were occasions for happiness and gaiety.
  • So one of the most famous merchants, called The Merchant of Venice, is encouraged to talk hopefully of his happiness when his ships come home; but he knows that ships sometimes do not come home. G.K.'s Weekly - If Matter Matters
  • Substantial evidence now attests to the extent of doctors' unhappiness with the state of their relationships with managers.
  • May your Christmas be filled with special moment,warmth,peace and happiness,the joy of covered ones near,and wishing you all the joys of Christmas and a year of happiness.
  • If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. Richard Bach 
  • Again there is a comparison with Beckett and tragicomedy, where happiness and sadness are all the more vivid from being in relief to each other.
  • Riches do not always bring happiness
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  • Be alike flower. Spread beauty and happiness wherever you stay; irrespective of your surroundings.
  • Voluspa," or Song of the Prophetess, a kind of sibylline lay, which contains an account of the creation, the origin of man and of evil, and concludes with a prediction of the destruction and renovation of the universe, and a description of the future abodes of happiness and misery. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
  • Diligence is the path leading to happiness.
  • The fasciated honey-eater has loudly called “with a voice that seemed the very sound of happiness”; the leaden flycatcher, often silent but seldom still, has twittered and whispered plaintively; the sun-birds are playing gymnastics among the lemon blossoms, and the centre of activity for butterflies is the red-flowered shrub bordering the wavering path. Tropic Days
  • He touched her lightly under the chin with a solitary finger, a common exhibition of affection she had noticed, and the look in his eyes made Sara blink back tears of happiness.
  • On the slightly down-at-heels Upper West Side block where the story unfolds, happiness — or the closest Schine's brightly downbeat characters can come to it — is next to dogginess. Doggy Affections
  • You make my heart smile. In such a soft and warm season, please accept my sincere blessing and deep concern for you. For our ever-lasting friendship, send sincere blessings and warm greetings to my friends whom I miss so much. Wish you a happy new year and a good fortune in the coming year when we will share our happiness, think of our good friends, and our dreams come true!
  • Despite happiness ? apparently Sisyphean 14 nature, there may be ways to increase satisfaction over the long term.
  • I swung from blind happiness to almost incandescent, unfocused rage within a second, almost before I had a chance to think about it.
  • May the coming years, fill your lives with love and happiness.
  • We send you both our love and best wishes for every happiness that life can bring.
  • I watched over my hasty temper, subdued my burning impatience of character, schooled my self-engrossing thoughts, educating myself to the best perfection I might attain, that the fruit of my exertions might be his happiness. The Last Man
  • I'm suddenly overcome by a surge of unhappiness and slump down on the desk, resting on my bloated belly, burying my face in the comforting but annoyingly podgy darkness of my arms.
  • There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. George Washington 
  • I wish you both the best of luck and, ever-increasing happiness as the years go by.
  • Whereas if only she had been dishonest, and therefore commonplace, she would either have chucked her given word to the devil, or the deep grey sea over which she stood, and cleared for her own happiness and a marriage licence; or kept her word in one sense while making deedy little plans of triangular pattern for future reference. Leonie of the Jungle
  • Her lips curved into a content smile thinking about them, their strength, happiness, and virtue.
  • One has no reason to end his life .Living is itself happiness.
  • This alone leads to that "eudaimonia" or happiness for which man strives. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy
  • Social factors include habituation to sex with the partner, and unhappiness with the relationship.
  • Even when you feel as though there isn't a lot you can do to change unhappiness or problems, you can always do a little--and a little at a time eventually makes a big difference.
  • Rigg leapt to his feet and let out a boyish, privick, unprincely hoot of happiness. Pathfinder
  • Heartiest congratulations upon your graduation.Wishing you all the excitement, all the challenge, all the happiness life call hold.
  • All men -- man and woman -- are created equal, -- equal in _attributes of body and mind_; (for _that_ is the only sense in which they could be _created_ equal;) _therefore_ they are endowed with right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, unalienable, except in their consent; _consequently_ such consent is essential to all rightful government; and, _finally_ and _irresistibly_, the people have supreme right to alter or abolish it, &c. Slavery Ordained of God
  • The sweetness of sharing a dream made for two is one life's greatest treasures. Wishing you both much happiness and a wonderful life.
  • Sophie's happiness had spread out like the sun over the veld. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
  • I didn't realise the extent of his unhappiness. Times, Sunday Times
  • He smiled, sensing an odd happiness welling up in her, even though tears began to roll down her cheeks.
  • It seems that Christmas time is here once again, and it is time again to bring in the New Year. We wish the merriest of hristmas to you and your loved ones, and we wish you happiness and prosperity in the year ahead.
  • Even happiness gets tire time in a Montesquieu.
  • When Wilbraham was telling me this part of Ids story he seemed to be enveloped -- "enveloped" is the word that best conveys my own experience of him -- by some quite radiant happiness. The Best British Short Stories of 1922
  • One may fall in love with many people during the lifetime. When you finally get your own happiness, you will understand the previous sadness is kind of treasure, which makes you better to hold and cherish the people you love.
  • When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
  • Happy birthday with all my love.When you need me,I am always by your side.I wish you every happiness and I love you more each year.
  • Ceased only that form of service which brings weariness, and have found perfect happiness in the ability to continue service without weariness_. The Mark of the Beast
  • Your birthday's a good time to tell you how much it means to have a brother like you and to wish you happiness today and always.
  • Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction. Anne Frank 
  • When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness. Bob Hope 
  • My heart goes out to particular moments and people, both recent and distant, and holds on for dear life, impervious to happiness or unhappiness.
  • I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hot houses of learning do not always grow anything edible. 
  • Our hunger for happiness books is virtually unslakable.
  • It will be a great happiness to her to fulfil her father's desire.
  • May an old friend express his pride in your accomplishment and extend to you a wish for your continued success and happiness.
  • If you have only the so-called happiness you'll grow to be like all these sappy happy people: mushy and artificial.
  • Success begins with hard work. Happiness begins with good health. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • But today we're nonplused by the phenomenon that a good number of students, rather than enjoying the sublime happiness supposed to be provided by education, do not hide their detestation for it.
  • III. The education concerning life happiness should be the integrity of happiness purposed education and autotelic education, that of the result and the process, and that of the aim and the means.
  • George's lust for freedom and happiness for himself is a lust for the freedom and happiness of others.
  • My sincere congratulations on your happy marriage and my best wishes to you two for a lifetime of happiness.
  • Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. 
  • My wife and I are very delighted to hear the news of your marriage.We send you both our love and hope you will have nothing but joy and happiness in your life together.
  • Your birthday's a good time to tell you how much it means to have a brother like you and to wish you happiness today and always.
  • Their pleasure was not happiness, contemporaries charged, but egotism, immorality, indulgence, and vice.
  • His face is etched with happiness and pain as he leans back in his chair. Times, Sunday Times
  • As you take your new road, We wish you a cup of success, A pint of happiness, And a jug of achievements. May you live the life of your dreams each moment and success follow you all your life.
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  • But the other day, when first I beheld thee, whether it proceeded from thy happinesse in fortune, or the fatall houre of my owne infelicity for ever, I know not; I conceyved such an effectuall kinde of liking towardes thee, as never did Woman love a man more truely then I doe thee having sworn within my soule to make thee my The Decameron
  • Ill would it beseem my habit and my calling, to thrust myself into match-making and giving in marriage, but worse were it in me to see your lordships do needless wrong to the feelings which are proper to our nature, and which, being indulged honestly and under the restraints of religion, become a pledge of domestic quiet here, and future happiness in a better world. The Monastery
  • True happiness doesn't come from prosperity, pleasure, and power, but from peace. RVM 
  • Because today's your birthday ,because I love you so,because the happiness we share means more than I can show, because of little thoughtful things you so often do,with all my heart i'm wishing every happiness for you.Happy Birthday!
  • Combine these qualities of self-denial and there is a propensity for deep unhappiness.
  • Happiness is perched on your windowsill, invite it in.
  • This will bring happiness...not happy-clappy happiness but ultimate, eternal happiness. We must pray for death
  • The opposite of victims, second wave feminists audaciously did something and, in the frontier spirit of American self-reliance, claimed responsibility for their own lives and happiness. Pamela Haag, Ph.D.: Remember When Liberals Were Feminists?
  • Their memories of the past will necessarily be plural as well as conflicting, bringing with them both joy and sorrow, both rejoicing and mourning, both happiness as well as despondency.
  • The pursuit of happiness can itself make us unhappy. Times, Sunday Times
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  • On this special day that belongs to you,I'd like to tell you the happiness we share means more than I can show.With all my heart,I'm wishing the joy the whole year through.Happiness always!
  • If red roses are arranged with yellow roses or blossoms contain both red and yellow coloration, they express gaiety, joviality and happiness.
  • In fact, sometimes the happiness in anticipation is greater than the happiness actually experienced in the moment - that's known as "rosy prospection. Gretchen Rubin: Balanced Life -- Get More Bang for Your Happiness Buck: Revel in Anticipation.
  • Her smile reflected the completeness of her happiness and ably communicated the effect of Robert's kind gesture.
  • Graduation is not only an end to a period,also a commencement of a new period and I hope that future years will bring you continued happiness.
  • They were tolerably happy together, as marriages seem to go, a happiness achieved partly by agreeing to differ.
  • The jelly ones make me want to cry with happiness. Times, Sunday Times
  • Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter. 
  • If love is the representative of the happiness, that what is happiness.
  • She has not turned onto the dead-end road of reminiscence, disability and dependence, but rather onto the long, fulfilling road of life, happiness, and salvation.
  • I pray for our Imam's enternal happiness and that his wishes should always be fullfilled because I owe him my present happiness, and strenght given to superate my problems. Refinance 2nd Mortgage
  • Normally the whole "inner turmoil" aspect of John Lennon takes John Lennon facial-expression precedence over happiness. NOGOODFORME.COM
  • Nor are the insights of happiness limited to what is near around you. Unhappy, with your thoughts turned in upon your emotional woes, your vision is cut short as though by a wall. Happy, the wall crumbles.
  • Happiness comes from contentment within and no amount of money will change that.
  • We believe that our prayers can assist our loved ones to attain eternal happiness.
  • She said it was the very happiness and stability of her upbringing that spurred her to investigate her personal history.
  • I didn't think that I could ever trust happiness. Then I met you.Happy Valenti ne's Day, Dear.
  • Whether happiness and sorrow in life would finally become memories.Why not face them with smile.
  • The book describes a spiritual journey from despair to happiness.
  • He just is not ready to share such happiness with the rest of the world, but on this superlative form that time may well come. Times, Sunday Times
  • Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
  • Three days before the fiesta is the Rebozo Fair, from the 18th to the 25th of September, a week of total happiness and rejoicing. The Meseta Purepecha
  • Your life can be enhanced, and your happiness enriched, when you choose to change your perspective. Don't leave your future to chance, or wait for things to get better mysteriously on their own. You must go in the direction of your hopes and aspirations. Begin to build your confidence, and work through problems rather than avoid them. Remember that power is not necessarily control over situations, but the ability to deal with whatever comes your way.
  • Happiness belongs to those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
  • Nothing will assure permanent happiness to me.
  • Wishing you glad days filled with friendliness, bright days filled with cheer, warm days filled with happiness to last throughout the year! Have a wonderful brithday!
  • I know today is your birthday.I wish you happiness, health,prosperity,and many happy returns!
  • We send you both our love and best wishes for every happiness that life can bring.
  • On this special day that belongs to you,I'd like to tell you the happiness we share means more than I can show.With all my heart[sentence dictionary],I'm wishing the joy the whole year through.Happiness always!
  • Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions. It is governed by our mental attitude.
  • It seems that happiness today has been reduced to acquiring newfangled gadgets, gizmos or gigagobblers that do absolutely everything but clean the kitchen sink.
  • He was radiating joy and happiness.
  • I suppose there's a part of me that feels unworthy of happiness and love. Times, Sunday Times
  • May your birthday be a celebration of the life.Wish you all happiness,health and prosperity with many returns of the day.
  • Such brief moments of happiness snatched from unpromising circumstances are generally the most that Loach's characters can hope for.
  • Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free. Thich Nhat Hanh 
  • It is the profound, incurable, and inextirpable bigotry of the English people, to which they will not hesitate to sacrifice the national honour, the public happiness, their own liberties, and their own consciences ... .... Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
  • The happiness we get in exchange for virtue could happen on the spot or in the future.
  • On the lower deck, where all the people are, there is the sense of an outrageous and clarifying happiness.
  • May the joy and happiness around you today and always.
  • Far from the wanton prodigal that she had seemed, Sarah turns out to be a faithful keeper of promises - even when they impinge upon (what she had believed to be) her greatest happiness.
  • I figure he must've had an allergic reaction to a magic potion and died, but Mary says maybe he found love and happiness and simply decided to never come back. Level
  • To chivvy the unconjugal to conjugate may to be store up greater unhappiness. David Cameron should honour his marriage vow
  • Being in tune with nature is the easiest and only way of ensuring a life of contentment and happiness.
  • Li Jianying was consistent in his courageous and resolute armyman style and cost his life to win peace and happiness for more people.
  • This drive for happiness impels us to seek out the things that make us feel good.
  • Scientology is meant to help clear people of unhappiness.
  • Happiness is not enough; brains are not enough; goodness will get you by, but without the other two it's a shield made of straw.
  • In fact, happiness and success are natural bedfellows. MAKING HAPPY PEOPLE
  • Secondly, you must seek to widen the circle of opportunity -- what they called the pursuit of happiness. Remarks By The President At Dnc Dinner In New Orleans
  • I wish you much happiness together.
  • desire happiness in perpetuity
  • Thus, the two sides to Neptune are rapture or despair, delirious happiness versus pain and confusion.
  • Peace is the foundation of happiness - for where there is anxiety, tension, and turmoil, joy cannot exist. RVM 
  • For those who have not been submitted, as we have for four years, to the intolerable and abhorred German yoke, it is difficult to realize how great were the relief, the joy, the well-being, in a word the unexpressible happiness we all felt when the first Allied troops made their way through our village, and this great event has been for us like the dawn of a resurrection. Tar-Heel War Record (In the Great World War)
  • It seems that Christmas time is here once again, and it is time again to bring in the New Year. We wish the merriest of Christmas to you and your loved ones, and we wish you happiness and prosperity in the year ahead.
  • Did he, as his father, have the right to stand in his son's way to reach the happiness he earned so gruelingly over the past years?
  • Where will he find more happiness to have ambition and drive him? The Sun
  • I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hot houses of learning do not always grow anything edible. 
  • One may fall in love with many people during the lifetime. When you finally get your own happiness, you will understand the previous sadness is kind of treasure, which makes you better to hold and cherish the people you love.
  • You cannot appreciate happiness unless you have known sadness too.
  • My wife and I are very delighted to hear the news of your marriage.We send you both our love and hope you will have nothing but joy and happiness in your life together.
  • No matter how cruel the destiny treats one with tribulation and misfortune, it will correspondingly treat him with happiness and sweetness. Even if the happiness is short and false, it's enough to light up the whole future life.
  • It will soon be well known that the surest way to inflict pain upon you is to extol the excellences or to dwell on the happiness of others, and your failings will be considered an amusing subject for jesting observation to experimentalize upon. The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends
  • My very best wishes to you for a lifetime of happiness.
  • The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. 
  • I resolved, therefore, that if my immediate union with my cousin would conduce either to her's or my father's happiness, my adversary's designs against my life should not retard it a single hour. Chapter 5
  • Wish you happiness and prosperity in the coming year!

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