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Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.

— Jacob Burckhardt

Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.

— Jacob Burckhardt

The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a…

— Louis Binstock

“Fairy tales have happy endings—real life seldom does.”

— I.T. Lucas

“Fairy tales in childhood are stepping stones throughout life, leading the way through trouble and trial. The value of fairy tales lies not in…

— L.R. Knost

The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

“It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.”

— L. Frank Baum

“Uncertainty, in the presence of vivid hopes and fears, is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of…

— Bertrand Russell

“The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction,…

— Joseph Campbell

Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies…

— Anonymous

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes…

— Haruki Murakami

“Because fairy tales contain powerful truths about the human condition, many of them, with tenacity and uncanny persistence, turn up, theme and variation, in…

— Gertrud Mueller Nelson