Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever. The ever after, what precisely was that? Your dreams, your life, your death, your everything. Was it the blank space that went on without us? The forever after we were gone?
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Related Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn’t that the point? Happily ever after doesn’t ... ALICE HOFFMAN What you have within you in your life is what you are after death. If you have explored it to some e... BELSEBUUB What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happ... SCOTT WESTERFELD You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live hap... JOYCE RACHELLE Life is about the moments you create, that you can keep it with you FOREVER. After everything is ove... ABHYSHEQ SHUKLA After your death you will be what you were before your birth. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER After your death, you will be what you were before your birth. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, de... JIM BUTCHER It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends ... ANN BRASHARES And they...LIVED! Life isn't always ‘Happily Ever After’, rather, loving FOREVER, regardless. CARMEN DESOUSA Your wife is smarter than you; know this, and you will live happily ever after. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you fi... LYNN REDGRAVE When you choose high-quality delicious foods, your body will reward you with a trim figure and a lon... SUZANNE SOMERS Be the architect of your dreams. Be the Michelangelo of your life. Go after what you want, make you ... PHILIP T. M. All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The d... C.S. LEWIS Your real journey starts from the point when you realize that your life, ambition, success, dreams, ... MUHAMMAD TALHA If...you feel that if you could indulge in sin without punishment, yet it would be a punishment of i... CHARLES H. SPURGEON Don't die with your wisdom and experiences longing to live forever after you are gone: write a book. JACENT MARY MPALYENKANA That’s what books do. They are the building blocks, the DNA, if you will, of you. Think of everyth... DAVE EGGERS It's the time you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important...People have forgotten this ... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Meant to be together? Are you listening to yourself? This isn't one of your fairy tales, Fallon. Thi... COLLEEN HOOVER Did you ever look down at yourself and realise that finally you had it all? Did you ever feel that e... JODI PICOULT You can really have everything you want, if you go after it, but you will have to want it. The desir... CHARLES E. POPPLESTONE You can really have everything you want, if you go after it, but you will have to want it. The desir... CHARLES E. POPPLESTONE Nothing else you want to do after all your dreams come true.
You've become numb. You shouldn't have ... TOBA BETA You have gone far and we are proud of you always. I know that you will keep your relationship with y... HANNAH NIXON Your beliefs are cause maps that you impose on the world, after which you 'see' what you have alread... KARL WEICK The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after,... J. K. ROWLING This is the thing about fairy tales: You have to live through them, before you get to happily ever a... KAT HOWARD And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after. PIPER LAURIE Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, y... JODI PICOULT Nothing else you want to do after all your dreams come true. You've become numb. You shouldn't... TOBA BETA Housework never really bothered me... what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be... ALICE MUNRO You can't get to happily ever after without turning the page. DOUG KIRCHHOFER I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is no... GOLDIE HAWN Make it a point whilst you live that long after you are gone, your works must live, teach, inspire a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. K... LL COOL J When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever. MITCH ALBOM When you don't have food in your life, just for a day, it makes you realise you're lucky to ... CHRIS MARTIN When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to... J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand, and what you've been up there ... CARRIE UNDERWOOD Watching the abuse and worry he dealt with firsthand made me see how time and fear could shape a per... KIERA CASS The trouble with psychics is that they convince you that you get this future no matter what you do. ... THOMM QUACKENBUSH After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're... DAN CASTELLANETA What if you were wrong? What if everything you ever believed was a lie? What if you missed your oppo... SHANNON L. ALDER Basically, I feel fortunate to have realized what the goal is in life. There's no point in dying... GEORGE HARRISON That’s what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hu... SARAH DESSEN It was scary to think of happily ever after. It was scary to think about trusting someone enough to ... RACHEL HAWTHORNE I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. K... LL COOL J You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have... C. JOYBELL C. Life can be long or short, it all depends on how you choose to live it. it's like forever, always ch... SARAH DESSEN "Do you believe in life after death?" the boss asked one of his employees. "Yes, Sir." the new r... UNKNOWN Nobody asked us how we'd like to receive (their gold medals). It sure wouldn't have been the way it ... DAVID PELLETIER I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love... SUE TOWNSEND Laugh, even when you feel too sick or too worn out or tired. Smile, even when you're trying no... ALYSHA SPEER If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was... NICHOLAS SPARKS I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and ... PAUL THEROUX No matter how difficult it may be for you after you have reassessed your life SUNDAY ADELAJA Anything that comes your way by force was not meant for you. Everything that locates you on it's own... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Best while you have it use your breath - There is no drinking after death ANONYMOUS TOAST Don't ever ask for permission to follow your dreams. Follow them no matter fucking what. It's import... JARED LETO And though I was currently living a fairy tale, some part of my soul knew that happiness couldn't la... ALYSHA SPEER Best while you have it use your breath,There is no drinking after death. (The Bloody Brother) JOHN FLETCHER What were the chances you'd ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever... RAINBOW ROWELL I have goals and aspirations, and I believe that you can go after your dreams, and it can work if yo... TIA MOWRY Never ever let anyone take the charge of your Guitar called LIFE. Tune your Dreams, for you are the ... VIKRMN A happy ending. Huh. I thought that was why we were here. Now. Five hundred years into Earth’s fut... A.B. SHEPHERD I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams. MADONNA CICCONE I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams. MADONNA It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then... BRIGITTE BARDOT I don't think it's overstating the fact that, on that date, politics and television changed forever.... BRUCE DUMONT You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY There are five people you meet in heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have... MITCH ALBOM They were a really tough team and went after the ball hard, but we could have boxed them out better.... NICOLE WOLFF What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, wou... SARAH DESSEN You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you. WAYNE GERARD TROTMAN I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make yo... ANITA LOOS Was it crazy that i still yearned for your every touch,
After all that you put me through. MANPREET GREWAL If you can read this then you have made it! Congratulations on surviving your life till now. Welcome... SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Your success is in your point of view. It's your life that you're talking about; it's yo... BILLY CRYSTAL Life has no beginning and no ending. It only begins right after your birth and end right after your ... THE INSPIRATIONIST We straighten , bu our snickering is barely contained as we attempt to focus our attention on a pict... STEPHANIE PERKINS He was composed, polite, and intelligent. All the things a prince should be. KIERA CASS And when he broke, it was a miracle he managed to find all the pieces of himself again. KIERA CASS If you don’t start going after WHAT YOU WANT, then you will NEVER GET WHAT YOU WANT! Do you want t... SHAY DAWKINS Believing in life after death is not the question, but living your life before death; that matters. VIKRANT PARSAI Best while you have it use your breath, There is no drinking after death. (The Bloody Brother) JOHN FLETCHER You know, nothing is ever happily-ever-after. Ever. CHARISMA CARPENTER For introverts, the best associations start with ideas. If you don’t feel a part of your neighborh... LAURIE A. HELGOE I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. LL COOL J Now is the time when you see people which you know... but they start ignoring you... and how do you ... DEYTH BANGER ...but it wouldn't be happily ever after without a kiss. STEFFANI RAFF The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren a... TERRY PRATCHETT One thing about an artist, it doesn't matter how much your work sells for in your life, it's... TRACEY EMIN Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour a... PAUL AUSTER To succeed,overcome your fears. Smile. Don't you forget this is your dream. When you fail, keep tryi... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its cou... JOSEPH CAMPBELL There are people that damage you for life. The day they walked into your life will forever be a turn... MALAK EL HALABI Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. Thi... MARY ANN SHAFFER
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PAUL HOFFMAN There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then... MARY HOFFMAN The city took it upon themselves to reclaim the site for reuse. It was never approved by the agencie... ANDREW HOFFMAN It's one thing for someone to walk a dog up there. I walked out there many times myself. It's anothe... ANDREW HOFFMAN Not many people get to say what I say about my team. When I practice, I'm practicing with some of th... ANDREW HOFFMAN It's been a great season for me. My times got consistently faster the whole year. 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