#happily

Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after, of a world where there is a wizard to give courage and a heart, an angel with a white stone that has written on it our true and secret name, and it is so easy to dismiss it all that it is hardly worth bothering to do. ... But if the world of the fairy tale and our glimpses of it here and there are only a dream, they are one of the most haunting and powerful dreams that the world has ever dreamed... ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#courage #dream #fairy-tale #happily-ever-after #haunting

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#columbia university #continue #eighteen #graduate #graduate student

I'm happily single. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#i #single

The same as real life, there is no happily ever after. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#life

Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after. ↗

— Arthur Phillips

#happily-ever-after #love #love

Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen. ↗

— Jane Yolen

#perspective #fairies

No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years. ↗

— Shirley Bassey

#anymore #been #bells #happily #i

It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#before #entirely #happily #live #must

That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true. ↗

— Marc Webb

#because #eventually #ever #ever after #great

I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily. ↗

— Paul Getty

#been #endure #envy #feel #given