J. Cole
Rapper, songwriter
"I seen a baby cry seconds later he laughs... the beauty of life, the pain never lasts."
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Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when you will understand. You must. Nobody will be left behind."
Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist, Philosopher
"If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man."
Jimmy Buffett
Musician, Author
"It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane."
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"We are the same. There is no difference anywhere in the world. People are people. They laugh, cry, feel, and love, and music seems to be the commons denomination that brings us all together. Music cuts through all boundaries and goes right to the soul."
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"If you think childlike, you'll stay young. If you keep your energy going, and do everything with a little flair, you're gunna stay young. But most people do things without energy, and they atrophy their mind as well as their body. You have to think young, you have to laugh a lot, and you have to have good feelings for everyone in the world, because if you don't, it's going to come inside, your own poison, and it's over."
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"Laughter is the language of the soul."
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"Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing."
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"I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive."
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"The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs."
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"It'll keep you alive for another 10 years if you get yourself a laugh once a day: either provoke it, or look around in the wildest laboratory in the world, the public."
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"When I was young, everyone laughed at me when I said that I wanted to be a professional basketball player...now it's my turn to laugh."
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"We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine."
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"Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh."
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"You never worry about the last laugh if you've been laughing the whole time"
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"Every day I awaken I am grateful. My intent is to be totally present in that day. And laugh as much as possible."
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"He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at."
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"I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it."
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"I think I've become more understanding of people around me compared to before. I try to understand other people's tendencies and relationships. I've been able to laugh off a lot of things between myself and others, but it's still difficult trying to look at things from their perspectives."
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"I said that I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda. If you had a giant panda in your back yard, anything could go wrong — someone could die, or stop loving you, or you could get sick — and if you could look outside and see this adorable, ridiculous, boffo panda, you'd start to laugh; you'd be so filled with thankfulness and amusement that everything would be O.K. again."
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"I think my most beautiful smile or laugh emerges when I'm happy."
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"Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is."
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"One man's theology is another man's belly laugh."
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"To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast"
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