#after

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#damn #die #die hard #go #go to hell

How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?' 'It will do well, if it ever comes to that,' said Frodo. 'Ah!' said Sam. 'And where will they live? That's what I often wonder. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#humor #sam-gamgee #humor

The bottom line is that after we defeat the armed forces of Iraq, that we will want to and need to provide stability throughout that country. ↗

— Peter Pace

#armed #armed forces #bottom #bottom line #country

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. ↗

— Carl Jung

#does #foundations #increase #know #knowledge

I realize what it means to be financially comfortable, and I want to be that. But I'm lucky enough to be in that position. And I'm also careful. I save 38 percent of my earnings after expenses, before taxes. ↗

— David Duval

#also #before #careful #comfortable #earnings

Happily ever after?" "If justice doesn't triumph and love doesn't make the circle in entertainment fiction, what's the point? Real life sucks too often. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#happily-ever-after #life

An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else. ↗

— William Ames

#anywhere #because #come #does #else

A life without rain is like the sun without shade. ↗

— Karen White

#karen-white #life

And then suddenly I realized that I was feeling- well, that I was actually feeling. My old personality was, after months of pills and pleasant nothingness, returning. Just the littlest bit- for I had only stopped taking my little yellow pills the day before- but my essence was already asserting itself, however weakly at this point. I felt a lump in my throat, and I spent the rest of the day walking around this strange and beautiful city, remembering myself, what it used to feel like to be me, before I switched myself off, before I stopped listening to my inner voices. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#beauty

I think we deserve a happily-ever-after." "If anyone ever did, it's us. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#happy #love #love