Sentence examples for capable of happiness from inspiring English sources

3. Now if we draw no distinction as to kinds of life, everything that lives will be capable of happiness, and those will be effectively happy who possess that one common gift of which every living thing is by nature receptive.

One scientist, Fischke (Joseph Adams), believes that monkeys are capable of happiness and sadness.

She's best when tackling painful subjects, and while she's capable of happiness, she could never be glib.

They are the marks of a good democrat, a good parent, a person who is capable of happiness and contributing to the happiness of others.

He retells the story of a Brahmin in colonial India who informed a Benthamite official: "I am ten times as capable of happiness as that untouchable over there".

But there is a grave danger when this habit of manipulation based upon mathematical laws is carried over into our dealings with human beings, since they, unlike the telephone wire, are capable of happiness and misery, desire and aversion.

As Schopenhauer put it, money is abstract happiness, so someone who is no longer capable of concrete happiness sets his whole heart on money.

In the course of his work, Chamine identified a handful of types of negative voices that are capable of sabotaging your happiness, productivity, and positive feelings of self-worth — a group he calls Saboteurs.

The Bhagavad-gita says that a godly person feels compassion for others, seeing that their suffering is caused by ignorance - by not knowing that we are all eternal parts of the supreme spirit, capable of enjoying eternal happiness.

Yet "will she ever be capable of real love, of happiness?" he wonders.

Aware that these restrictions posed a threat to their egalitarian ideals, Jefferson and his successors spoke of women and slaves as if they, too, were capable of a certain kind of happiness -- but it was an inferior type akin to the frivolity of childhood.