Quotes of: Happy-marriage Keyword

I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.

Yvette Nicole Brown

I'm still number one, so don't forget about that. So I still can have a happy ending.

Yani Tseng

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Benjamin Franklin

A love story can never be about full possession. The happy marriage, the requited love, the desire that never dims--these are lucky eventualites but they aren't love stories. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding famili...

My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead

I want you to be happy, and him to be happy. And yet when you walk that aisle to meet him and join yourselves forever you will walk an invisible path of the shards of my heart, Tessa. I would give over my own life for your happiness. I thought perhap...

Clockwork Princess

The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tends to forget the contingent origin of this phrase: “We holds these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are e...

In Defense of Lost Causes

Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly attempt to indulge. Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy—a joy without penalty or guilt, a...

Atlas Shrugged

The kind of happy I was that day at the Vet when "Hawk" Dawson actually doffed his red "C" cap to me, and everyone cheered and practically convulsed into tears - you can't patent that. It was one shining moment of glory that was instantly gone. Where...

The Lay of the Land

George, who is out somewhere there in the dark, who is good to me - whom I revile, who can keep learning the games we play as quickly as I can change them. Who can make me happy and I do not wish to be happy. And yes, I do wish to be happy. George an...

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

...it pointed to an alternative approach, a ‘negative path’ to happiness, that entailed taking a radically different stance towards those things that most of us spend our lives trying to avoid. It involved learning to enjoy uncertainty, embracing...

The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

Nurse: I'd thought you'd be happy for Miz. Threadgood. Evelyn Couch: [Crying and very upset] Happy? Cuz she's dead? Nurse: No that she gets to go home. She just left in a yellow cab. Evelyn Couch: [Looking VERY confused] I don't understand... Nurse: ...

Fried Green Tomatoes

Beautiful girls are seldom happy, intelligent boys are seldom beautiful.

Chinese

There is no winter without snow, no spring without sunshine, and no happiness without companions.

Korean

When a miser dies, the heirs feel as happy as when they kill a pig.

Maltese

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Poverty: The result of marriage.

Caravan of Dreams

If the marriage were valid, she'd be your sister-in-law.

Clockwork Prince

Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence.

The Devils

Fidelity in a sad marriage can fairly be described as an act of faith.

The Emperor of Ocean Park

Freydis and Ref are in a world of their own, a world of love and pain, wrapped in marriage vows.

God's Daughter

People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

Emily Blunt

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh