Living Happily Ever After Quotes:

I like to read the ending first.

- Melissa Marr

topic: Firsts, Living Happily Ever After, Wicked Lovely

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

- Jimmy Buffett

topic: Cute Life, Want, Ever After, Happily Ever After, Living Happily Ever After

I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy.

- Charlaine Harris

topic: Writing, Romance, Kind, Happily Ever After, Living Happily Ever After

Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.197, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Book, Together, Down And, Happily Ever After, Living Happily Ever After

But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have ot believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after. That's why I write these songs. Because I think love is FEARLESS.

- Taylor Swift

topic: Song, Believe, Writing, Living Happily Ever After, Believe In Love

And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.

- Stephen King

topic: Inspirational, Doe, Three, Happily Ever After, Living Happily Ever After

Once upon a time there was a girl." "Not a princess?!" "No, definitely not! She was too smart to be a princess. Tough too...Stronger than anyone realized." "Does she live happily ever after?" "Shouldn't there be something in the middle?" "I like to read the ending first." (Wicked Lovely)

- Melissa Marr

topic: Girl, Smart, Princess, Living Happily Ever After, Wicked Lovely

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

source: Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Princess Ben”, p.338, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Girl, Dream, Couple, Happily Ever After, Living Happily Ever After

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?

- Alice Hoffman

topic: Dream, Mean, Space, Living Happily Ever After, Blank Space

We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.

- Yakov Smirnoff

topic: Teacher, Teaching, May, Living Happily Ever After

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

- Cat Stevens

source: "A cat in a wild world" by Yusuf Islam, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2004.

topic: People, Common Sense, Justice, Justice Will Prevail, Happily Ever After

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Change, Sarcastic, Living Happily Ever After, Importance Of Being Earnest

I think we ought to live happily ever after.

- Diana Wynne Jones

topic: Love, Thinking, Ever After, Happily Ever After, Living Happily

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

- Stephen King

topic: Children, Doe, Ever After, Living Happily Ever After, Dark Tower Series

You actually do confront your dark side, your impulses, or your feelings of sibling rivalry in Cinderella or whatever. You admit that they exist and then you work through them and conquer them and come out living happily ever after having learned something. That's one reason why the fairy tales keep having traction and meaning.

- Catherine Hardwicke

topic: Sibling, Dark, Feelings, Traction, Living Happily

The vibration of appreciation is also the highest, fastest vibration we can use for attraction. If we would shoot appreciation at anything and everything, all day long, we'd be guaranteed to have heaven on earth in no time, living happily ever after with more friends, more money, more beautiful relationships, in total safety, and closer to the God of our Being than it's possible to fathom.

- Lynn Grabhorn

source: Lynn Grabhorn (2009). “Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting: The Astonishing Power of Feelings”, p.104, Hampton Roads Publishing

topic: Beautiful, Appreciation, Long, Living Happily, Living Happily Ever After

When you think about it, giving up your real personality is a small price to pay for the richness of living happily ever after with an actual man!

- Lynda Barry

topic: Giving Up, Real, Men, Living Happily, Living Happily Ever After

We need to set goals for ourselves. Start today...if you don't have any goals, make your first goal getting some goals. You probably won't start living happily ever after, but you may start living happily, purposefully, and with gratitude...Goals are gratitude in action. They give us the opportunity to build on what we already have. While achieving goals can be a lengthy process, we can learn to be grateful for each stage in the process of setting and meeting goals.

- Melody Beattie

topic: Happiness, Gratitude, Grateful, Living Happily, Living Happily Ever After

There is no need for revenge. Living happily ever after is a sign that you have not let the past beat you.

- Leon Brown

topic: Revenge, Happy Life, Past, Happily Ever After, Living Happily

Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.

- Sonya Hartnett

source: Sonya Hartnett (2011). “The Ghost's Child”, p.128, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Trying, Stories, Way, Living Happily, Living Happily Ever After

Once again, I don’t quite know where I’m headed Steph. It seems that every few years I’m shoveling up the pieces of my life and starting from scratch all over. No matter what I do or how hard I try I can’t seem to reach the dizzy heights of happiness, success, and security, like so many people do. And I’m not talking about becoming a millionaire and living happily ever after. I just mean reaching a point in my life that I can stop what I’m doing, take a look around me, breathe a sigh of relief, and think “I’m where I want to be now.

- Cecelia Ahern

topic: Mean, Thinking, Sigh Of Relief, Living Happily, Living Happily Ever After