Sentence examples for be Happy rather than from inspiring English sources

"Most voters would probably prefer to be happy rather than have their representative mechanically accept their mistaken impressions of how to reach this goal," he writes.

3.56pm GMT Stephen Doughty, the new Labour MP for Cardiff South and Penarth, asks if Miller agrees that most parents want their children to be happy rather than not wanting them to be gay.

Roberts's justification for his claim – that some men and women have concluded that ambition for leadership is "antiquated" and "dinosaur-like" and prefer to be happy rather than successful – is worth pondering for a moment.

Be Happy Rather Than Perfect.

When we love others unconditionally, we take the humble position of supporting them, of truly wanting them to be happy rather than seeking self-aggrandizement.

Just by thinking, 'May she be happy,' rather than 'May I be happy,' we've begun to change the structure of our life, and, to a certain degree, the structure of the whole world... because what virtue produces is more virtue.

I can't speak for my children, but I do hope they try more than one way of being happy, rather than turning around at 84 and saying, "Free at last".

But CIs cannot fully convey the pitch of sounds, as well as their "spectrum" of sound frequencies, and this means that users may find it harder to tell whether someone's voice is happy rather than sad, for instance.

Pointing to "Bailando," a painting of dancing African-Uruguayans, Mr. Ivanovich said Figari "liked to show the dances, the parties, the rituals, the few times when they were very happy, rather than when they were working or in chains.

Having come up just short on three occasions, Grainger concedes that she was "embarrassingly happy rather than relieved" to finally win Olympic gold at her fourth attempt.

Instead, maybe try "Well it's better to be fat and happy rather than an anorexic stick like yourself".