"Tread softly, Brathe peacefully, Laugh hysterically."
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"And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face."
"As soon as I was old enough to peer over the worktops, I remember being fascinated by what went on in the kitchen. It just seemed such a cool place, everyone working together to make this lovely stuff and having a laugh doing it."
"I love myself when I am laughing."
"The Laughing Heart your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere. it may not be much light but it beats the darkness. be on the watch. the gods will offer you chances. know them. take them. you can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it. you are marvelous the gods wait to delight in you."
"I go in the sea as little as I can. If there's a girl and I have to accompany her, then obviously I go (laughs)!"
"Are you asking me to undress, Tris?' A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially"
"A woman laughing is a woman conquered."
"Crying with the wise is better than laughing with the fool."
"As a teenager I went all Goth, but I wasn't mopey enough. I would pretend to be, but I'd end up making people laugh."
"If we couldn't laugh, we would all going to go insane."
"My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?"
"Now,I'm no scientist,but I know what endorphins are. They're tiny little magical elves that swim through your blood stream and tell funny jokes to each other. When they reach your brain,you hear what they're saying and that boosts your health and happiness. "Knock Knock... Who's There?.. Little endorphin... Little endorphin who?... Little Endorphin Annie." And then the endorphins laugh and then you laugh. See? Its Science."
"We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."
"Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much."
"In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone."
"Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too."
"Once you learn how to make people laugh, then you get to choose exactly how you want to make them laugh."
"I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time."
"Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it."