"Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen."
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"It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour."
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"The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens -- but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters."
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"And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what is your friend that your should seek with him hours to kill? Seek with him always hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. And in the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter, and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."
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"We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."
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"The only true measure of success is the amount of joy we are feeling."
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"What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?"
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"Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told."
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"When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters."
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"True life lies in laughter, love and work."
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"It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit."
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"Don't evaluate your life in terms of achievements, trivial or monumental, along the way... Instead, wake up and appreciate everything you encounter along your path. Enjoy the flowers that are there for your pleasure. Tune in to the sunrise, the little children, the laughter, the rain, and the birds. Drink it all in... there is no way to happiness; happiness is the way."
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"Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge."
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"Without kindness there can be no true joy."
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"A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose."
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"The light was leaving in the west it was blue The children's laughter sang and skipping just like the stones they threw the voices echoed across the way its getting late It was just another night with the sun set and the moon rise not so far behind to give us just enough light to lay down underneath the stars listen to papas translations of the stories across the sky we drew our own constellations"
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"Sometimes when I am alone in my room in the dark, I practice smiling to myself. I do this to be kind to myself, to take good care of myself, to love myself. I know that if I cannot take care of myself, I cannot take care of anyone else."
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"Maybe there's a God above, As for me, all I've ever seemed to learn from love Is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you. Yeah but it's not a complaint that you hear tonight, It's not the laughter of someone who claims to have seen the light No it's a cold and it's a very lonely Hallelujah."
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"If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself."
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"Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself."
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