Laughter Quotes - Page 17

• The soul's joy lies in doing.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Happiness, Lying, Joy

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• Grief is a solitary journey. No one but you knows how great the hurt is. No one but you can know the gaping hole left in your life when someone you know has died. And no one but you can mourn the silence that was once filled with laughter and song. It is the nature of love and of death to touch every person in a totally unique way. Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Song, Hurt, Grief

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• Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.

  Hippocrates

  Pain, Grief, Men

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• I wield the flail of the lashing hail,
  And whiten the green plains under;
  And then again I dissolve it in rain,
  And laugh as I pass in thunder.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Rain, Clouds, Rivers

  1819 'The Cloud'.

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• We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes.

  George William Russell

  Heart, Tired, Looks

  George William Russell, “Natural Magic”

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• Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Happiness, Marriage, Wedding

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Khalil Gibran

  Morning, Fun, Heart

  Khalil Gibran, “Friendship IXX”

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• A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Happiness, Crazy

  Man and Superman act 1 (1903)

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• There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

  Henri Bergson

  Happiness, Creativity, Joy

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• Laughter is the best creative medicine.

  John Cleese

  Creativity, Medicine, Creative

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• The only true measure of success is the amount of joy we are feeling.

  Esther Hicks

  Happiness, Positivity, True Joy

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• Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Nature, Knowledge

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• You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

  Horace

  Happiness, Men, Joy

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• Laughter is good medicine for the soul. Our world is desperately in need of more medicine.

  Jim Stovall

  Inspirational, Life, Our World

  Jim Stovall (2010). “Today's the Day!”, p.42, David C Cook

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• Without joy in your life you are powerless.

  Joyce Meyer

  Happiness, Joy, Powerless

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• If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Joy, Excellence

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1860, Princeton University Press

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• In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human bliss to human woe.

  Samuel Johnson

  Laughing, Bed, May

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical”, p.610

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• Love without laughter can be grim and oppressive. Laughter without love can be derisive and venomous. Together they make for greatness of spirit.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Love, Greatness, Together

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• Happiness is activity.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Joy, Activity

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• That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Funny, Humor, Laughing

  "The Big Picture: An American Commentary". Book by A. Whitney Brown, 1991.

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• LAUGHTER is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness. Yes, there is a difference between when you laugh and when a religious man laughs. The difference is that you laugh always about others - the religious man laughs at himself, or at the whole ridiculousness of man's being. Religion cannot be anything other than a celebration of life.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Men, Essence

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• Life consists of sadness too. And sadness is also beautiful; it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own deliciousness, its own taste. A man is poorer if he has not known sadness; he is impoverished, very much impoverished. His laughter will be shallow, his laughter will not have depth, because depth comes only through sadness. A man who knows sadness, if he laughs, his laughter will have depth. His laughter will have something of his sadness too, his laughter will be more colorful.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Sadness, Men

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• I teach you joy, not sadness. I teach you playfulness, not seriousness. I teach you love and laughter, because to me there is nothing more sacred than love and laughter, and there is nothing more prayerful than playfulness. I don't teach you renunciation, as it has been taught down the ages. I teach you: Rejoice, rejoice, and rejoice again! Rejoicing should be the essential core of my sannyasins.

  Rajneesh

  Sadness, Joy, Age

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• For the Baul, life is not a serious thing. It is fun, it is laughter, it is joy. So you cannot find anything like the seriousness of a church-goer, or the long faces of so-called religious people in the world of the Bauls. They love laughter, they love fun. They enjoy small things with tremendous respect. Ordinarily, religions are very long-faced, very sombre, serious, because they have to be - they are against life.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Fun, Long

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• Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Essence, Ego

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