Sentence examples for value of happiness from inspiring English sources

But the most powerful challenge concerns the meaning and value of happiness.

Tolstoy's novel is, among other things, a book about the value of happiness: often, he thought, we discount it, in favor of other, more exciting feelings, like anticipation, love, and triumph.

I did not know it was teaching me to acquire what is essential to the greatest works of imagination: the magical throbbing of the heart, defining us as human beings, connecting us to one another, giving us a reason to live, a way to survive, and to understand not just the value of happiness and love, but their close proximity to pain and loss.

For a recent discussion of these and other doubts about the value of happiness, see Belliotti 2004.

In promoting (whenever possible) the value of happiness in all circumstances of human life, Cardano does not intend to humour any human tendency to self-delusion.

I don't think people really understand the value of happiness until they know what it's like to be in that very, very dark place.

Words that do not have happiness scores are given the value of zero happiness.

For Humana, the economic value of employee happiness starts with a simple equation: happy nurses keep patients healthier.

The claim that this is, straightforwardly, a mistaken conception, reveals the point that eudaimonia is, avowedly, a moralized, or "value-laden" concept of happiness, something like "true" or "real" happiness or "the sort of happiness worth seeking or having".

The death of her mother taught Quind-len "the value of life and happiness".

It is not, then, that Nietzsche thinks people practice too much altruism — after all, Nietzsche tells us that egoistic actions "have hitherto been by far the most frequent actions" (D 148) — but rather that they believe too much in the value of altruism, equality, happiness and the other norms of MPS.