Sentence examples for material happiness from inspiring English sources

Despite the long boom, Americans are pursuing material happiness during this holiday season with unwavering zeal.

But this is a utilitarian argument; that is, one that judges actions as moral because they increase our material happiness.

Alexis de Tocqueville, among others, claimed that the pursuit of (material) happiness generated a characteristic American unhappiness.

Conversely, conservative Christian morality would not allow homosexuality or same-sex marriage, even if it turned out that doing so would increase material happiness.

It is not only about environmental degradation – our never-ending quest for material happiness is one of the most perverse tricks we've ever played on ourselves.

If we accept the Enlightenment values of tolerance, coexistence and mutual pursuit of material happiness, things in the long run work out.

He is 36, she is 38, and they still seem to find humor, story material and happiness in getting by on very little.

Yet, "the primary cause of government" is to be found in nature itself, since humans must wrest from nature "the scanty materials of happiness" (Mill 1992, 4 5).

This is about individual, subjective estimations of happiness, material and non-material, which Gallup calls "wellbeing".

Some people seem to glide through life, getting just what they want: jobs, relationships, material possessions, even happiness.

There is neither material nor spiritual happiness here, and even just for the honour of its own country, the US should criticise.