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• Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational Love, Wine, Knives

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Which is the woman, which the child? The joyous laugh that opens doors, steals sugared moments from the shelf? Or the dreamer mixing metaphors with tears to make a book of self To read aloud in winter's rooms When summer's sounds have ceased to bloom?

  Katie Louchheim

  Summer, Dream, Children

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• Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for. And that's what I am.

  Emma Thompson

  Celebration, Failing, Clown

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• Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.

  Federico Fellini

  Beautiful, Uplifting, Despair

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• Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Cheerful, Minutes, Easier

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.27, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Medicine, Laughing, Needs

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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• I couldn't get the laughter out of my head. It wasn't career. It wasn't even a choice. It was a calling.

  Carol Burnett

  Careers, Choices, Calling

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• Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.

  William Golding

  Language

  William Golding (2013). “An Egyptian Journal”, p.78, Faber & Faber

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• The love and laughter are what you need most in your life. They'll fill out all the potholes in the road.

  Maria Shriver

  Life, Needs, Potholes

  Maria Shriver (2003). “Ten Things I Wish I'd Known - Before I Went Out Into the Real World”, p.92, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling.

  Jim Dale

  People, Laughing, Feelings

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless world. Rather the silence around us is a small and pitiful stillness like the prompt stillness of a sick room. We are perhaps permitted tragedy as a sort of merciful comedy, because the frantic energy of divine things would knock us down like a drunken farce. We can take our own tears more lightly than we could take the tremendous levities of the angels. So we sit perhaps in a starry chamber of silence while the laughter of the heavens is too loud for us to hear.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Angel, Heart

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• Sing with me, sing for the years. Sing for the laughter'n sing for the tears.

  Steven Tyler

  Years, Singing, Tears

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• Sorrow is better than laughter; for, by the sadness of the countenance, the heart is made better.

  Solomon

  Heart, Character, Sadness

  "A new translation of the Proverbs of Solomon, with notes by W. French and G. Skinner".

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• Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Wedding, Matter

  Biography/Mini Bio, www.imdb.com.

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• The Stovepipe is a memoir full of laughter and tears and a moving story of sisterly love as well as their will to survive.

  Dave Pelzer

  Moving, Will To Survive, Tears

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• Laughter at oneself is always proof that god has healed us in the touchy places!

  Eugenia Price

  Proof, Healed, Touchy

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• Sometimes I spend all day trying to count the leaves on a single tree... Of course I have to give up, but by then I'm half crazy with the wonder of it--the abundance of the leaves, the quietness of the branches, the hopelessness of my effort. And I am in that delicious and important place, roaring with laughter, full of earth-praise.

  Mary Oliver

  Giving Up, Crazy, Effort

  Mary Oliver (2012). “A Thousand Mornings: Poems”, p.11, Penguin

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• Laughter is the best medicine...smilin g is second

  Ian Somerhalder

  Medicine, Laughter Is The Best Medicine

  FaceBook post by Ian Somerhalder from Aug 09, 2014

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• What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what's it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse.

  Isaac Asimov

  Jobs, Pain, Writing

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• Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.

  Jim Valvano

  Each Day, Emotion, Precious Moments

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."

  Abraham Lincoln

  Joyous, Evergreens, Universal

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln".

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• What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up!

  Hafez

  Heart, Soul, Sound

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• Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice

  Albert Schweitzer

  Voice, Giving, Joy

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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• In a world of regret, sacrifice and hardship, laughter and music are medicine.

  Immortal Technique

  Regret, Sacrifice, Medicine

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• Laughter can shake you from the delirium of grief

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Grief, Delirium, Shakes

  Lidia Yuknavitch (2013). “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir”, p.13, Hawthorne Books

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