#happily

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general. ↗

— Novalis

#family #family life #far #fit #general

I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a can to represent spinach and we'd hum the Popeye tune and then I'd happily eat it. ↗

— Paul O'Grady

#because #child #eat #eater #food

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

He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. ↗

— Victor Borge

#his #married #wife

I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me. ↗

— Geezer Butler

#happily #i #interest #life #married

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#afflicted #also #comfort #comfortable #comfortably

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#honourably #i #live #long #necessary

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience. ↗

— Diane Keaton

#comes #experience #freedom #happily #life

My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#completely #disapproval #get #happily #hurdles

The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy. ↗

— Olivia Wilde

#end #feel #good #good marriage #had