#happily

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#ascending #endless #endless series #happily #leading

At the ripe old age of seventeen, Donna had decided that "happily ever after" didn't exist for freaks like her. ↗

— Karen Mahoney

#age

I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after! ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#after #another #being #chance #ever

Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about marriage is forever happy. There are moments of bliss, to be sure, and lengthy spans of satisfied companionship. Yet these come at no small effort, and the girl who reads such fiction dreaming her troubles will end ere she departs the altar is well advised to seek at once a rational women to set her straight. ↗

— Catherine Gilbert Murdock

#happily-ever-after #humor #marriage #dreams

How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?' 'It will do well, if it ever comes to that,' said Frodo. 'Ah!' said Sam. 'And where will they live? That's what I often wonder. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#humor #sam-gamgee #humor

Happily Single is permission to CHOOSE your life rather than having it handed to you, and it’s living life on your own terms instead of those that are expected of you. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#choices #choosing-your-life #confidence #happily-single #independence

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that. ↗

— David Byrne

#doing #extent #feel #happily #i

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

Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#building #developed #diet #different #eventually

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#aggressive #attempting #because #engaged #happily