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• Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Happiness, Pain, Disappointment

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• Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.

  Norman Cousins

  Happiness, Humans, Hearty

  Norman Cousins (1989). “Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit”, Penguin Group USA

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• Seriousness is equated with responsibility, when, in fact, I think we would be much more responsible if we had more joy and laughter in our lives.

  Deepak Chopra

  Happiness, Responsibility, Thinking

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• To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter. But matter is an abstraction of exactly the same kind, just as good and just as bad as it is. We know as much about the soul as we do of matter.

  Ernst Mach

  Science, Soul, Matter

  Ernst Mach (2014). “History and Root of the Principle of the Conservation of Energy”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

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• Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.

  Nhat Hanh

  Flower, Healing, Sunshine

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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• Friends, you are lucky you can talk about what you did as lovers; the tricks, laughter, the words, the ecstasy. After my darling put his hand on the knot of my dress, I swear I remember nothing.

  Vidya Balan

  Hands, Sensual, Dresses

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• English is my second language. Laughter is my first.

  Paul Krassner

  Humor, Firsts, Language

  "In The Jester's Court". Interview with David Kupfer, thesunmagazine.org. February 2009.

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• Laughter is a release of tension. When influencing, make the other person laugh; you'll gain rapport instantly.

  Marshall Sylver

  Laughing, Gains, Influence

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• There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational Friendship, Intimate, Found

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 28, 2011

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• I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing

  Alice Herz-Sommer

  Believe, Wonderful, Humour

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• Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Tears, Doe, Cry

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• As in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?" The skull howled with laughter. "You just got your ass handed to you by a nursery tale?""I wouldn't say they handed me my ass," I said.Bob was nearly strangling on his laughter, and given that he had no lungs it seemed gratuitous somehow. "That's because you can't see yourself," he choked out. "Your nose is all swollen up and you've got two black eyes. You look like a raccoon. Holding a dislocated ass.

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Two, Skulls

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.31, Penguin

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• God places us in the world as his fellow workers-agents of transfiguration. We work with God so that injustice is transfigured into justice, so there will be more compassion and caring, that there will be more laughter and joy, that there will be more togetherness in God's world.

  Desmond Tutu

  Faith, Caring, Compassion

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• All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart of all the inhibitions of the past. And laughter and tears can do both. Tears will take out all the agony that is hidden inside you and laughter will take all that is preventing your ecstasy. Once you have learned the art you will be immensely surprised.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Past, Agony

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• You know how I always say that laughter is carbonated holiness? Well, Robin was the ultimate proof of that, and bubbles are spirit made visible.

  Anne Lamott

  Robins, Holiness, Spirit

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• We can never untangle all the woes in other people's lives. We can't produce miracles overnight. But we can bring a cup of cool water to a thirsty soul, or a scoop of laughter to a lonely heart.

  Barbara Johnson

  Lonely, Heart, People

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.115, Zondervan

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• As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot protect it then; and walls which have remained impenetrable to cannon have fallen before a roar of laughter or a hiss of contempt.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Wall, Army, Men

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.48

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• Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded a kind of inhuman, frightful laughter in which quivered despair, and joy, and cruelty, and suffering, and pain, and sobbing, and derision; the heart-rending and spasmodic laughter of the insane or condemned.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Pain, Heart, Night

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1911). “In Desert and Wilderness”, p.148, Jester House Publishing

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• THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

  Immanuel Kant

  Mean, Two, German Philosopher

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• As the artist matures she is continuously shaken by what she
  manages to discover: by the earth shifting beneath her feet once again,
  by her own amazed, ringing laughter.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Feet, Earth

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• Eating, drinking. sleeping, pro-creating. A little laughter, a lot of tears. Is this all there is to life? Don't die like a worm on the surface of the planet. WAKE UP and be all that you can be, you are so much more than that.

  Sivananda

  Drinking, Sleep, Creating

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• From here on after let's stay the way we are right now. And share all the love and laughter that a lifetime will allow.

  George Strait

  Way, Lifetime, Share

  Song: I Cross My Heart, Album: Pure Country, 1992

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• God...made childhood joyous, full of life, bubbling over with laughter, playful, bright and sunny. We should put into their childhood days just as much sunshine and gladness, just as much cheerful pleasure as possible. Pour in the sunshine about them in youth. Let them be happy, encourage all innocent joy, provide pleasant games for them, romp and play with them; be a child again among them. Then God's blessing will come upon your home, and your children will grow up sunny-hearted, gentle, affectionate, joyous themselves and joy-bearers to the world.

  J.R. Miller

  Children, Growing Up, Home

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• This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. You know, I hate to sound corny about it but it's true, and I think that's what this movie is about.

  John Goodman

  Hate, Thinking, And Love

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• Purpose and laughter are the twins that must not separate. Each is empty without the other.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Purpose, Twins, Empty

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