Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn’t that the point? Happily ever after doesn’t mean happy forever.
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Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean...
ALICE HOFFMAN This isn’t happily ever after.
It’s so much more than that.
KIERA CASS What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happ...
SCOTT WESTERFELD I don't care where I come from or who you are. I can make you happy, and you make me happy. We could...
AMANDA HOCKING Just because you don’t believe in the Lord doesn’t mean his power isn’t working for you.
FRANCINE RIVERS just because they don’t hit you doesn’t mean it isn’t abuse. wouldn’t you think it a crim...
AMANDA LOVELACE I have found that when you GENUINELY love what you do, time isn’t a factor. As a matter of fact, t...
STEPHANIE LAHART You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live hap...
JOYCE RACHELLE Just because a person is young doesn’t mean that being loyal to someone isn’t important. And it ...
C.C. HUNTER You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have...
C. JOYBELL C. This is the thing about fairy tales: You have to live through them, before you get to happily ever a...
KAT HOWARD The mind is a remarcable thing. Just because you can’t see the wound doesn’t mean it isn’t hur...
JODI PICOULT When you think about the success you desire, don’t forget that God’s “not yet” doesn’t mea...
TIFFANY L. JACKSON You know, nothing is ever happily-ever-after. Ever.
CHARISMA CARPENTER When people around you do not support your personal growth and reinvention, it doesn’t mean you ar...
SUSAN C. YOUNG What you do, say, and have reveal who you are.
LORRIN L. LEE That’s when you realize the most of it—life, the relentless mechanism of existing—isn’t abou...
LAUREN OLIVER And they...LIVED! Life isn't always ‘Happily Ever After’, rather, loving FOREVER, regardless.
CARMEN DESOUSA Not giving up doesn’t mean that you hate losing, it’s showing that you have the courage to show ...
RYAN KIER When you are clinically diagnosed with depression as a teenager, sometimes people don't understa...
CARA DELEVINGNE That's the fairy tale. You meet, you fall in love, you kiss, and neither of you is revolted by it. Y...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN I know it's a crock of shit. I ain't offering you happily-ever-after. I'm offering you... happily-ma...
WALLY LAMB Just because something isn’t good doesn’t mean it’s bad.
REBECCA MCNUTT But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have ot believe in love storie...
TAYLOR SWIFT You can't get to happily ever after without turning the page.
DOUG KIRCHHOFER Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a li...
DONNA TARTT Or when a movie finishes
With a happy ending
And the screen turns to black
It doesn’t mean everyth...
NATALIE NOVAK Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever go...
MORRIE SCHWARTZ Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever go...
MITCH ALBOM But if you forgive someone for something they did to you, it doesn’t mean you agree with what they...
IDOWU KOYENIKAN Talent just defines what you do,” he said. “It doesn’t define what you are. Deep down, I mean....
TERRY PRATCHETT Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever go...
MITCH ALBOM But when you’re a kid, it isn’t chaos. It’s just a heartbeat. Your house isn’t floating thro...
RYAN GALLOWAY Just because you’re an atheist, that doesn’t mean you wouldn’t love for things to have reasons...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Just because you don’t deserve punishment for your thoughts doesn’t mean you have to think only ...
VIKRANT PARSAI Being a positive person doesn’t mean you don’t feel negative emotions. It means you have faith i...
LETICIA RAE Your wife is smarter than you; know this, and you will live happily ever after.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Life is about the moments you create, that you can keep it with you FOREVER. After everything is ove...
ABHYSHEQ SHUKLA Happily Ever After isn't really the end...
K.C. RANDALL The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK At the ripe old age of seventeen, Donna had decided that "happily ever after" didn't exist for freak...
KAREN MAHONEY I want to be someone's right now, Simon, not their happily ever after.
RAINBOW ROWELL And they lived happily (aside from a few normal disagreements, misunderstandings, pouts, silent trea...
JEAN FERRIS Reasons... questions... what they have in common?
- All get finded in the hard way.
DEYTH BANGER Steps are what you take when you think you have forever.
NICHOLAS LORE Being gifted doesn’t mean you’ve been given something. It means, you have something to give.
PLEASEFINDTHIS Lack can greatly be the reason for our conscious and unconscious steps in life. Mind what you lack, ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Lack can greatly be the reasons for our conscious and unconscious steps in life. Mind what you lack,...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When what you value and dream about doesn’t match the life you are living, you have pain.
SHANNON L. ALDER Why be greedy when you can have it all.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS The Best Person to BE is Who You are. The Best thing to DO is what you Love. The Best Things to HAVE...
LORRIN L. LEE And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.
PIPER LAURIE Cat: Where are you going?
Alice: Which way should I go?
Cat: That depends on where you are...
LEWIS CARROLL We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we'v...
YAKOV SMIRNOFF You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, y...
MITCH ALBOM Just because everyone is behaving like a clown, it doesn’t mean you have to join the circus.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO When you don't have food in your life, just for a day, it makes you realise you're lucky to ...
CHRIS MARTIN If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a great...
MAGGIE SMITH But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking abo...
J.D. SALINGER You mean they killed her?" asked David.
They ate her," said Brother Number One. "With porridge....
JOHN CONNOLLY You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed
SAINT-EXUPERY, ANTOINE DE You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
ANTOINE DE SAINT EXUPéRY Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do w...
DEMI LOVATO That's a perfect example of what happens when you marry television and music badly. It's not what AL...
BILL SIDDONS When you wake up, your face will be dry. But that doesn’t mean you didn’t cry.
BETH REVIS I know what you might be thinking here on your own, but those thoughts won’t last for ever,’ I s...
SARAH MOORE FITZGERALD And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But...
STEPHEN KING I want to get married and have children and live happily ever after. That's important to me.
CORY MONTEITH Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron...
YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?” The cat asked, �...
LEWIS CARROLL In books and movies, the stories always end when the two people finally have their romantic kiss. Th...
GAYLE FORMAN Have you ever noticed when you start getting happy, you say, uh-uh, I'd better watch out. I feel...
DYAN CANNON Failure, doesn’t mean that you allow yourself to repeat the same mistakes;it does mean that you le...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA My dear, treacherous mother,” he breathed. “What have you done?
GRACE DRAVEN Guilt is what you feel when you have violated values & done something wrong. You believe you have fa...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.
STEPHEN KING I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you ...
ALICE WALKER But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.
NORTON JUSTER The fact that you do not trust your spouse or lover doesn’t necessarily mean that they are cheatin...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA But strength doesn’t always mean brute force. You don’t have to kick ass to be a fighter. Violen...
BECCA FITZPATRICK When you have a baby, when you feel his love, you feel so at peace with the world. You just want to ...
SHAKIRA Forever is a really long time, you know? What do you do with forever?"
"The same thing you do w...
AMANDA HOCKING The trouble with psychics is that they convince you that you get this future no matter what you do. ...
THOMM QUACKENBUSH True love is taking the risk that it won't be a happily-ever-after. True love is joining hands with ...
CARA LOCKWOOD Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, f...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is
perfect. it means that you’ve decided to look
beyond...
GUNDO MULAUDZI My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm su...
ADAM LAMBERT I think we ought to live happily ever after.
DIANA WYNNE JONES I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living h...
DIANA WYNNE JONES I was in a happily ever after, but everything turned into a mess IN MY WORLD.
MARIANA CORRêA COSTA Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Q...
JANE YOLEN Happily ever after?"
"If justice doesn't triumph and love doesn't make the circle in entertain...
NORA ROBERTS Howl said, "I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew t...
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ANDREW HOFFMAN (The 200 free relay) was actually the best part of my whole day, winning that relay. Because the 500...
ANDREW HOFFMAN About halfway down that second 25, I realized I was ahead of everyone else. I just put my head down ...
ANDREW HOFFMAN I think we have a good chance to win county. We have more experience and team depth this year than w...
ANDREW HOFFMAN It worked out perfect. I was so happy with how it went. I was so proud of my teammates and everyone....
ANDREW HOFFMAN As long as it was close, I was going to bring it home, and I was going to win it.
ANDREW HOFFMAN I don't need the trophy or ribbon to remind me of my accomplishments or anything.
ANDREW HOFFMAN If you contrast the productivity that comes from a networked or capitalist distribution of resources...
REID HOFFMAN The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive...
PAUL HOFFMAN That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.
BETH HOFFMAN I want to do the best I can, since I made it, and just have fun.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN I think it's like 21 hours a week (training time).
ANNELISE HOFFMAN I don't really have a favorite event, I like them all.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN We do more routines as the regional gets closer.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN Our goal is to empower consumers. We're trying to give them the most up-to-date information possible...
AMANDA HOFFMAN People are spending a long time on the site. They're looking at their own homes, their bosses' homes...
AMANDA HOFFMAN We are in beta mode. We completely expected that some of our data was not going to be accurate.
AMANDA HOFFMAN Oh, my goodness. That may be a bug.
AMANDA HOFFMAN We know it's rocky right now. But the sky's the limit.
AMANDA HOFFMAN All of this was public information; it was just really hard for the consumer to get.
AMANDA HOFFMAN It's really designed to give you a starting point. If you're not feeling well, you can enter in your...
AMANDA HOFFMAN You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimil...
ABBIE HOFFMAN Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way dow...
REID HOFFMAN The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. ...
REID HOFFMAN