We’ve collected the best Happily Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Harold Ramis, Thich Nhat Hanh, Fahadh Faasil, Peter Heller, Simon Helberg. Use them as an inspiration.
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He was happily married – but his wife wasn’t.
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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.
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I’m a happily declared chocoholic. I keep it everywhere, even my nightstand.
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The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.
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To me, Steve was my Prince Charming. He was my happily ever after, and we got that. We got 14 years of marriage; we had the best, most fantastic, adventurous, wonderful life that you could imagine. And I was very happy with that.
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There are many things that people do happily that I can’t imagine why they would do it… But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I’m not critical of people individually. We are who we are.
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One of the many falsities of fiction that we accept quite happily is the non-ageing of characters as they appear across series and sequels.
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I don’t sleep with happily married men.
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I believe religion is a branch of spirituality, often misinterpreted and twisted to suit people’s ideas. In truth, religion and spirituality are meant to co-exist happily.
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When I think of my version of a role model, it’s not about being the perfect Samaritan; it’s just being out there and being honest and happily imperfect.
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I love that very traditional fairy tale where it’s not all ‘happily ever after.’ I like all that old school, bloody, ‘Brothers Grimm’ sort of stuff. So you have all those shades of gray in there.
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Throughout any given season of ‘The Bachelor,’ the women exclaim that the experience is like a fairy tale. They suffer the machinations of reality television, pursuing – along with several other women, often inebriated – the promise of happily ever after.
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The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.
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Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.
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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.
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I think I usually play the woman that, after the person tries to go for some extraordinary feat of romantic accomplishment, they happily wind up with me.
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I don’t do guilt. Whatever I do, I do it happily.
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I think everyone knows what it is like being in love. It’s never a smooth thing. Whether you are happily together or not.
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When I got a call to be a part of the Save Governments School initiative as an ambassador, I happily accepted. I even adopted a government school for a small amount of Rs 5 lakh.
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The adulation or the superstardom is something I could leave out quite happily.
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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!
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I’m a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.
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Happily, the days when overt racial discrimination and segregation were championed by social conservatives are long past.
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Not many people get that ‘happily ever after’ they want in life. There are disappointments every step of the way, no matter how hard one strives for the best.
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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
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Look, I’ve got incredible pride for my family. I’ve absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly.
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A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.
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I will happily work anywhere they need me to if they pay me well.
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One of the most common criticisms of romance is that the genre is too prescribed: If every romance novel ends happily ever after, don’t the stories lack complexity? Don’t the readers get bored?
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It is difficult to survive as an author in Sweden, so for commercial success, it is good idea to write crime, get yourself translated, and live happily ever after.
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Process does matter; you need a process. What it is is up to no one but you. But if you can’t sit down, write once upon a time, and go through however many hundred thousand words to get to happily ever after, you’re never going to get anywhere.
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In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
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I want to get married and have children and live happily ever after. That’s important to me.
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As fiscal constraints impinge on defence and diplomacy, governments find themselves increasingly homebound, even if diplomats happily travel to summits.
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Falling in love is awesome, but I’m never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you’re happily in love, it’s like, ‘OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.’
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Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, because once I can see the words on the page, I can go about ripping them up and moving scenes around. A blank page, though? Terrifying. I’m always angsty when I’m working my way through a first draft.
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I had a girlfriend when I was about 13 but we didn’t stay together for very long and I’ve not really been out with many people since. I’ve still never had a serious girlfriend but I would happily go out with someone if the right girl came along.
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If I seem to write most happily about the ordinary things that boys do who live in the country, it is because this is the part of my childhood that I look back upon with the greatest affection.
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My parents divorced when I was in my early 20s and have both happily remarried, so I have a large extended family.
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When I think about it, I’m happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They’ll preorder me. What a lucky guy!
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To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.
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I’m a storyteller. I’m always willing to serve the story, a story I believe in, in whatever way is necessary. If I need to write the story I believe in, I will write it. If I’ve been offered to act in a story that I truly believe in, I will happily do that, but I’m a storyteller. That’s something I’m so thankful for.
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I’m happily single.
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The technologists and entrepreneurs I know are generally good people. If they were given a choice, ‘Do your job and eliminate normal jobs’ or ‘Do your job and create abundant opportunities,’ they would choose the latter. Most of them would happily even take a small hit to do so. But this isn’t a choice they’re given.
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I’m intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.
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There was never a burning desire to be a top actress in the first place. I happily gave up my career to marry Mahesh.
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Oh, I’ve had terrible, terrible relationships! The fact that I ever got happily married to a great, normal man is kind of a miracle.
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When I finished law school, I had a 10-year plan. My plan was to go to a law firm, fall madly in love, have a baby by the time I was 30, make partner, and live happily ever after.
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I’m building this reputation as YA heartbreaker, I know. Some people like ‘happily ever after,’ but I don’t think that’s me.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‘forever young at heart.’
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I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.
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There’s always talk about going out on top, unfortunately for me that means going out on a loss but it’s going out at the highest level. I’m happily satisfied and it makes a lot of sense to me.
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The relationship between press and politician – protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial – becomes sour, raw and confrontational.
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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
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There’s no such thing as the contemporary novel. Before I seem the complete reactionary, let me add that I’ve happily joined in many discussions about ‘the contemporary novel’ where what that usually, unproblematically means is novels that have appeared recently or may appear soon.
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
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I’ve been happily married to Chris for almost 20 years.
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Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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I do all my films happily, and I enjoy every moment of it.
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The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
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I have no problem in doing comedy, as I am happily consolidating my image of a comic actor.
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I don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
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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!
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
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Not many people come out of a big band as the lead singer/songwriter and making a record, and all of a sudden we’re all happily sailing at the same pace as we were before.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.
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I could never call myself an atheist; my parents could, quite happily. I always felt like there was a little bit more out there, and was always into observing the world from a slightly more spiritual, as opposed to scientific, perspective.
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I am proud of my heritage and have happily taken advantage of every opportunity to educate my teammates and Steeler Nation about American Samoa, both as a player and in the community, through the Troy and Theodora Polamalu Foundation Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation.
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I am happily married to a wonderful man. He is not in the business.
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When I got dropped for the World Cup, there were times I didn’t want to play anymore. I didn’t want to practise. I couldn’t motivate myself. Then I said, ‘Look what are the options?’ Cricket is the only option. Whether I play happily or sadly, it’s still all I have. There are not a lot of things I am good at.
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Yes, if I wasn’t a happily married man with three children, Emma Bunton would definitely be my hot-tub fantasy date.
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I’d rather be happily single than unhappily married.
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This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.
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I’m a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
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I ski every three years or so. I don’t have the ingrained confidence that others do, but I’ll happily toddle about a green or blue run.
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To get our passengers where they want to go safely and happily requires thousands of us working together with a shared purpose of supporting each other in serving our customers.
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I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.
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I’ve already had my happily ever after.
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You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone’s work and work with it happily.
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I, as prime minister, never went to Washington. Certainly never went to a presidential ranch. I hate to say this, but I wasn’t going to be the pilot fish to the shark, whereas Australia quite happily bobbed along like a happy little pilot fish with a shark who was a messy eater, and I just couldn’t feel like that.
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My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.
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I know a lot of companies that have a very well defined post-acquisition process. However, many of them don’t take into consideration the dynamics and personalities of the acquiree. Instead, they assume that everyone will happily be assimilated.
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I am playing the character of a grandmother in ‘Doctor Don’ which is completely different from my previous roles. My character is dashing, carefree and has a bindaas mindset. She loves to live her life happily.
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For me personally, I feel that a film that doesn’t end with a happy ending has a far bigger reach. It lingers on far more. Unrequited love stories have much more impact on the audiences. If ‘Romeo and Juliet’ had been happily married and had kids and dogs, I don’t think it would have been a classic.
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I’d happily just stay on the road. Getting home from America, sitting in my kitchen with a cup of tea, staring out of the window is pretty depressing. I didn’t have a tour manager to tell me what to do so I had to start reaching out to people and making plans. That was hard. You become very vegetable-y.
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There’s a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it’s a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
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I love bread and would happily eat it for every meal of the day.
