Sentence examples for total happiness from inspiring English sources

Some of it is both pointless and unpleasant – a total happiness suck.

"We try to achieve total happiness, on the skirts of Mother Nature.

To the extent that public policy is intended to enhance not only economic growth but also total happiness, these figures are important.

Here's Kolbert: … once you accept that you should have a baby in order to increase the world's total happiness, how do you know when to stop?

He inventories the advice dispensed by authors on how to get thin, get rich; improve your mind, your body, your sex life; and overcome pain, shame and poor self-esteem -- in short, how to achieve total happiness and fulfillment.

Philip McGrath (the chef and owner) and his vigilant staff are concerned with the diner's total happiness, further ensured by dishes like venison with juniper, brandade (cod with potato) and apple galette with ice cream.

Still, provided the parents were able to throw in a bag of M&M's, they (or, at least, the world) would fare better, total-happiness-wise, with the larger brood.

By contrast, life circumstances – which would include income levels – account for just 10% of our total reported happiness.

The plan was to connect these devices to a network — it would ride on the existing TV networks — so that the total national happiness at any moment in time could be determined.

In its classical form, utilitarianism demands that social institutions be arranged so as to maximize the sum total of happiness, understood as pleasure net of pain, while in its more contemporary version it calls for these institutions to maximize the sum total of desire-satisfaction.

In the latter, the exercise of intellectual virtues is the sum-total of happiness; and the other virtues have only instrumental value in making contemplation possible.