Sentence examples for Present happiness from inspiring English sources

Your greatest gift is my present happiness.

The result is a murder trial in which the Darcys find themselves inextricably entangled and which threatens their present happiness and future security.

"If my present happiness had come to me at eighteen, I should probably have taken it as a matter of course," she wrote.

But when a creepy stranger with a porcelain hand turns up one day in the bookshop, the past threatens to unravel this present happiness.

Under Carstensen's theory, our present happiness sometimes competes with gains we might realize in the future, like knowledge and new relationships.

I could never have such faith in my own past or present happiness (and surely he, too, is being a bit ironic), but, thanks to Anne, I know what he means.

The album opens with "Happy," which presents happiness as something that can muddle experience as much as soothe it: "Happy came to visit me / He bought cookies on the way / I poured him tea and he told me it'll all be O.K. / Well I told him I'd do anything to have him stay with me".

She says she was inspired by the sheer volume of self-help books that have been published in the US in last couple of decades, many of which presented happiness as the sine qua non of existence.

Interestingly, while male participants presented happiness in purely hedonic terms as presence of positive affect [ 17], women described happiness in terms of relating to others and full physical functioning [ 18].

Elsewhere in Bristol, the Invisible Circus present The Happiness Machine at the Big Top at Creative Common.

Bryant, F. B., Smart, C. M. & King, S. P. Using the past to enhance the present: boosting happiness through positive reminiscence.