"You give to the world your greatest gift when you're being yourself."
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"The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond."
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"Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter. Longchenpa Let's stuff our eyes with wonder, let's live as if we'd drop dead in ten seconds. Let's see the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."
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"The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow."
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"Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand."
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"The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow."
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"There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third."
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"If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there."
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"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness."
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"That's the chief lesson I have learned: the texture of our universe is one where there is no question at all but that good and laughter and justice will prevail."
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"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
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"The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project."
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"Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward."
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"The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn."
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"Primitive societies, or social groupings, had shamans, and some of them even more recent in time. Shamans were tricksters. There was a tradition of the trickster, and the trickster was a clown, a humorous fellow. His task was to trick the gods, to humor the gods into laughing, so that there was access to the divine - because laughter is a moment when we are completely ourselves."
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"Laugh and the world laughs with you!"
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"Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable."
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"The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers."
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"We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker's, and even with laughter. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. The guilt is washed out not by time but by repentance and the blood of Christ: if we have repented these early sins we should remember the price of our forgiveness and be humble."
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"A thin line separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. Our lives constantly walk that line. When we slip off on one side or the other, we're taken by surprise. But who said there wouldn't be surprises? Knowing God just means that all the rules will be fair; at the end of our life drama, we'll see that. We never know how things will turn out, but if we know with certainty they will make sense regardless of how they turn out, we're on to something."
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