HAPPINESS in a Sentence

Learn HAPPINESS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for HAPPINESS, such as:
1. I was formed for peaceful happiness.
2. Riches do not always bring happiness.
3. May the joy and happiness around you today and always.
4. Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer.
5. Sometimes happiness is just a matter of attitude adjustment.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of HAPPINESS
happiness
 n.  emotions experienced when in a state of well-being
 n.  state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I heard of him first in rather a romantic manner, from a lady who owes to him the happiness of her life.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 2
2  It was thus that I was to be taught to associate evil with their prosecution, happiness with their disregard.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
3  My children," she said, "my firmest hopes of future happiness were placed on the prospect of your union.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
4  I fear, my friend, that I shall render myself tedious by dwelling on these preliminary circumstances; but they were days of comparative happiness, and I think of them with pleasure.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
5  At these moments I wept bitterly and wished that peace would revisit my mind only that I might afford them consolation and happiness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
6  Felix was too delicate to accept this offer, yet he looked forward to the probability of the event as to the consummation of his happiness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
7  The presence of Safie diffused happiness among its inhabitants, and I also found that a greater degree of plenty reigned there.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
8  Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
9  This, I thought, was the moment of decision, which was to rob me of or bestow happiness on me forever.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
10  Do not suppose, however, that I wish to dictate happiness to you or that a delay on your part would cause me any serious uneasiness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
11  Once commenced, it would quickly be achieved, and I might be restored to my family in peace and happiness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
12  If this journey had taken place during my days of study and happiness, it would have afforded me inexpressible pleasure.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
13  I was formed for peaceful happiness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
14  Here also we made some acquaintances, who almost contrived to cheat me into happiness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
15  The wretch saw me destroy the creature on whose future existence he depended for happiness, and with a howl of devilish despair and revenge, withdrew.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Your life can be enhanced, and your happiness enriched, when you choose to change your perspective.
2  Being rich doesn't actually increase your happiness quotient.
3  Tears are mailed to me the gift green, address is not how happiness.
4  I send you warm congratulations and hope that there are many more years of happiness ahead for both of you.
5  The ground-work of all happiness is health.
6  Heartiest congratulations and best wishes to you both for along life and an ever-lasting happiness.
7  I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness.
8  Riches do not always bring happiness.
9  It is not true suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
10  When something sensational happens to us, sharing the happiness of the occasion with friends intensifies our joy.
11  I want to bring out the secrets of nature and apply them for the happiness of man.
12  May the joy and happiness around you today and always.
13  The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
14  Sometimes happiness is just a matter of attitude adjustment.
15  If you would build for your happiness a sure foundation, let the stone for the corner be a good reputation.