Ever After Quotes - Page 6

• Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever.

  Alice Hoffman

  Mean, Forever, Lucky

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• I realized that searching for a mentor has become the professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming. We all grew up on the fairy tale "Seeping Beauty," which instructs young women that if they just wait for their prince to arrive, they will be kissed and whisked away on a white horse to live happily ever after. Now young women are told that if they can just find the right mentor, they will be pushed up the ladder and whisked away to the corner office to live happily ever after. Once again, we are teaching women to be too dependent on others.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Horse, Teaching, White

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• Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Cheesy, Together, Fangirl

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl: A Novel”, p.387, Macmillan

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• The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Race, Tasks, Nuclear

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.130, I.B.Tauris

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• Reputation is a reward, to be sure, but it is really the beginning, not the end of endeavor. It should not be the signal for a let-down, but rather, a reminder that the standards which won recognition can never again be lowered. From him who gives much - much is forever after expected.

  Alvan Macauley

  Truth, Character, Giving

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• Life is not static. If life were static there would be no need for meditation. The mind would do. Then you could think, and whenever, after many lives, you knocked at the door, the girl would be waiting for you. But life is a flux, a movement. Every moment it is changing and becoming new. If you miss a moment, you have missed.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Girl, Thinking

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• The fact that so many of my friends were stumbling headfirst into their happily-ever-after gave my tired heart hope that I couldn't be far behind.

  Jay Crownover

  Tired, Heart, Facts

  Jay Crownover (2014). “Rome (The Marked Men, Book 3)”, p.15, HarperCollins UK

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• If you want to be alive and live in a real world, if you want to have any emotions at all in your life, you must willingly, knowingly, repeatedly set yourself up for things possibly not ending up 'happily ever after.

  Loni Anderson

  Real, Alive, World

  Loni Anderson (1995). “My Life in High Heels”, William Morrow & Company

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• Happily ever after doesn't begin with Once upon a time: it begins with Now.

  Stephen Mitchell

  Once Upon A Time, Happily Ever After

  Stephen Mitchell (1999). “The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults”, Harmony

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• Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It doesn't mean a damn thing. After they've eaten that meal, then what? It lasts for only a day. After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? It goes round and round in circles. You can pour money in forever. After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain. There is no one concert. We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it. Not in this lifetime, anyway.

  John Lennon

  Music, Mean, Circles

  Playboy Interview, January 1981.

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• I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools the casebook method of learning the law is still in. The matriculating young lawyer is as qualified to represent a client with the education he has suffered through as a doctor who has never seen a patient, who has never held a scalpel in his hand and who learns surgery by having read text books about it and becomes skilled in surgery, if ever, after having stacked up piles of corpses who represent his pathetic learning process.

  Gerry Spence

  Book, School, Doctors

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• Heavenly Father offers to you the greatest gift of all—eternal life—and the opportunity and infinite blessing of your own “happily ever after.”

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Father, Blessing, Opportunity

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• You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew; he hath now access to your fancy to stir up lustful thoughts and desires, so that when you should think of your calling, of your God, or of your soul, your thoughts will be worse than swinish, upon the filth that is not fit to be named. If the devil here get in a foot, he will not easily be got out.

  Richard Baxter

  Thinking, Doors, Feet

  Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.423

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• Ever afterward, though the dance of creation change around me in the hall of eternity, I shall be the same.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Eternity, Creation, Halls

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• Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on.

  Mary Balogh

  Regret, Opposites, Numbers

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• I don't think people were put here to be happy. I think if you decide to be an artist or a writer, you automatically accept the responsibility of being alone. However, after your 50 or 60 years are up you'll be able to look back and see this output that you've done that will endure long after you're gone, and will continue to fill the minds of millions of people.

  Jim Steranko

  Responsibility, Artist, Thinking

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• It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.

  Patrick McGoohan

  Mean, Trying, Rebel

  Interview with Warner Troyer in Toronto for the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, March 1977.

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• One is so apt to cheapen a thing when one tries hastily to put it into words, and ever afterward it is never quite the same.

  Ruth Sawyer

  Trying, Speech, Never Quit

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• Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.

  Rupert Sanders

  Once Upon A Time, Stories, Happy Ever After

  "Snow White & The Huntsman director Rupert Sanders is living the fairy tale". Interview with Francesca Babb, www.theguardian.com. June 01, 2012.

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• Here's hoping that your special day
  Will be more 'happy ever after'
  With all the joys of friendship,
  Love, fun and laughter

  John Walter Bratton

  Laughter, Fun, Wedding Anniversary

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• If you would stop analyzing everything and just look for things to appreciate, you would live happily ever after.

  Esther Hicks

  Appreciate, Self Improvement, Looks

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• Coleridge received the Person from Porlock
  And ever after called him a curse,
  Then why did he hurry to let him in?
  He could have hid in the house.

  Stevie Smith

  Poetry, House, Curse

  Stevie Smith (1988). “New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• I think the barrier for a lot of people to actual, real, lasting love is the fantasy. The problem is that we think in "happily ever after" love, but real love grows over time, and priorities change.

  Marti Noxon

  Real, Love Is, Thinking

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after.

  Taylor Swift

  Believe, Stories, Love Story

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• He, who for an ordinary cause, resigns the fate of his patient to mercury, is a vile enemy to the sick; and, if he is tolerably popular, will, in one successful season, have paved the way for the business of life, for he has enough to do, ever afterward, to stop the mercurial breach of the constitutions of his dilapidated patients. He has thrown himself in fearful proximity to death, and has now to fight him at arm's length as long as the patient maintains a miserable existence.

  Nathaniel Chapman

  Fighting, Fate, Successful

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