Each pain is Unbearable / yet TriflingSeeing the TRUTH is Excruciating / yet ExquisiteThrough Laugher & Tears / Grinning & Fear, we face our demons.

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either

He laughed to free his mind from his mind’s bondage.

Figure out what makes you laugh, and do more of it. Figure out what makes you cry, and do less of it.

4. Ditties of Life – 4.39 HUMANITY & DIVINITYWhen you lose reasoning you forget humanity,When you forget laughter you lose Divinity.[222]– 4

Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning...

She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.

I fought for you, I fought for usI fought for the memories and the laughter that came upon us,Now here we are, we have become unknown people to each other,Worlds apart in an instant, for...

It had been an embarrassing moment, like the one you get when you realize for the first time that you have what it takes to become an accountant.

It is a splendid thing to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the mask of years, if you really love her, you...

Her gaze shifted away. “I don’t remember my dreams anymore.” It was like she was confessing a dirty secret. And maybe it was, because even though he hated the dreams, each time he had them,...

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with laughter

It was at a conference in Cyprus in 1976, where the theme was the rights of small nations, that I first met Edward Said. It was impossible not to be captivated by him: of his...

I am running and singing and when it’s raining I’m the only one left on the open street, smiling with my eyes fixed on the sky because it’s cleaning me. I’m the one on the...

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.

I had a dream about you. We laughed, and laughed, and laughed, like little kids, only we weren’t kids, we were just little. I think the technical term is midgets.

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by...

I could hear the chaotic laughter trailing behind me. It turned the ageless trees into a menace. They loomed around me, while hiding him. The branches tore at my skin in an effort to bind...

You have as much laughter as you have faith.

It’s just… You sound like lorde. But like, with maple syrup.

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

Why were things funny? Was God laughing at us? Or was laughter the dispensation of God? Maybe laughter itself was Godlike. When we laugh, we rise above pain. We rise above indignity. We even rise...

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died

There are only two profound ways to reach enlightenment: Laugh by yourself, or get tickled.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

The most important quality in the man you decide to marry should be the ability to make you laugh. Beauty fades, careers end, money comes and goes, religions change, children grow up and move away,...

You know what they say, Two pairs a company, cheese a croud

Laughter is just like champagne — only without the headache afterwards.

Laughter erupted from her belly and shot out her mouth like pigeons through an open cage door, schoolchildren bursting into summer vacation, water from a tapped hydrant.

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

She always looks like she’s about to break into laughter. He always looks like he’s about to break into her house. I don’t care what he takes, so long as it’s me who steals her...

…the presence of others has become even more intolerable to me, their conversation most of all. Oh, how it all annoys and exasperates me: their attitudes, their manners, their whole way of being! The people...

Joy, humor, and laughter should be part of everyone’s spiritual life. They are gifts from God and help us enjoy creation.

Gentleness stepped out of your smile; but:Suspicion cried out from your laughter.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.

We’re all a little broken, it’s how we feed our brokenness that defines us; some you wouldn’t believe ever broke and some you will see never grew through the break but one thing certain, everyone...

In comedy laughter settles all arguments.

Does anyone remember laughter?

They laughed too, even Rose Dear shook her head and smiled, and suddenly the world was right side up. Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated,...

Just like a summer sausage, and I’m not talking about the snack-sized ones. And it’s attached to a body that could put Dwayne Johnson to shame. What women could resist a package like that? I’d...

Yet the best determining factor of how comfortable we are with ourselves, is our ability to laugh at ourselves.

A thousand laughing suns are in your eyes. A thousand crying stars in mine.

When Ben came back to me, he said, “Why are you laying with your face in the sand?”I made sure all the laughter was out of me before I rolled over. “I think it helps...

[…] she hadn’t realised how much she missed the company of women who laughed, women who spoke their own minds, women who didn’t give a shit for anything.

One smile in the morning can change your mood for the entire day. One hug in the evening can usher you into cheerful night dreams you will never regret!

There is a species of primate in South America more gregarious than most other mammals, with a curious behavior.The members of this species often gather in groups, large and small, and in the course of...

I guess it can’t be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they’re making love. The love and the laughter come from the...

We all have stories, just as you do. Ways in which he touched us, helped us, gave us money, sold it to us wholesale. Lots of stories, big and small. They all add up. Over...