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laughter believe miracle
Alan Watts There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substiutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelming uncanny fact of mere existence.
laughter real anxiety
Alan Watts Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
laughter laughing doubt
Alan Alda Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.
laughter tears may
Aiden Wilson Tozer May God keep fresh the fountain of our laughter and our tears!
laughter thinking skeletons
Chinua Achebe Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you think you will live?" she asked. "You are already a skeleton." Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive.
laughter laughing mind
Edmond de Goncourt Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
laughter oxygen
Dawn Powell I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.
laughter shows
David Walliams I have always liked shows that have laughter in them.
writing thinking practice
Charles Caleb Colton There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other.
writing justice add
Charles Caleb Colton Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
writing first-love should-have
Charles Dickens Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.
writing names forgiving
Charles Dickens Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.
writing support events
Charles Dickens Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.
writing stories want
Charles Soule Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time.
writing years long
Charles Stross If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year.
writing hints facts
Charles Stross If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!
writing ideas stories
Charles Stross Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.
two religion plunder
Charles Caleb Colton There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.
two iron gold
Charles Caleb Colton There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp--gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station.
two together mistress
Charles Caleb Colton If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an under-plot; and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress.
two people way
Charles Caleb Colton There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
two small-changes society
Charles Dickens That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
two people tea
Charles Dickens The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.
two kind lawyer
Charles Dickens Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.
two crap learners
Charles Stross I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner .
two priorities world
Charles Stanley To become God's mighty servants, we must decide whether we will base our life on His priorities or the world's. The two are incompatible.