Sentence examples for looking for happiness from inspiring English sources

As he explained in a journal his mother later shared, my friend went looking for happiness in a dark place.

His reply to a Chicago woman reads like advice to the lovelorn: "You are looking for happiness in the wrong direction.

I call this solution "experientialism" and the people who live this way "experientialists": instead of looking for happiness, identity, status and meaning in material things, like materialistic people do, they find them in experiences.

No wonder they never find what they're looking for; happiness, as survey after survey shows (the latest, in April 2008, by the Royal Economic Society), is certainly found more often in the religious than the non-religious.

"The United States offers a vivid portrait of a country that is looking for happiness in 'all the wrong places'," writes Jeffrey Sachs, a Columbia University economist and author of the chapter on the US.

As the movie's production notes put it with deadly accuracy: "Will Napoleon get his second chance or will his victory come when he discovers that his real identity is that of a man, like any other, looking for happiness and love?" Once the movie focuses on that sudsy issue, it turns into bland, tasteful mush.

"You attain the American dream and you ask yourself 'is that it?' I looked for happiness.

So where, in the books of the 20th century, might you look for happiness?

Who, besides Oedipus, marries his original love object -- and who would ever think to look for happiness in that story?

Rather than resign himself to gloom, however, Mill vowed instead to look for happiness in another way.

He says many Americans, whether regular workers or corporate executives, look for happiness in fleeting, external things like possessions and fame.