Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

Renee Zellweger

I'm attracted to intelligence and creativity and passion - and not necessarily the romantic kind. I want to learn from someone who is greedy for information and light and laughter and the whole world. Someone who celebrates their days and finds inspiration in what other people accomplish.

Ryan Lochte

That's the quickest way to my heart: Laughter.

Russell Baker

Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.

Umberto Eco

But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.

Umberto Eco

The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.

Reinhold Niebuhr

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.

Reinhold Niebuhr

All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.

Dr. Seuss

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky!

Zig Ziglar

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

William Wilberforce

If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

William Wilberforce

Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.

Carl Jung

You never know what you have till you've lost it.

Carl Jung

I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.

Robert Cormier

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Robert Collier

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.

Robert Collier

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Harvey Johnson

I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't two times that. It just shows the compassion of the people here to folks they don't even know in another part of the country.

Mary Doria Russell

John Henry Holliday didn't have a mother to love him when he was grown, so I have taken him for my own. My fondest hope for Doc is that it will win for him the compassion and respect I think he deserves.

Buddha

Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.

David Woods

Her kindness and compassion for her friends touched many soldiers throughout the company.

Sathya Baba

God is the embodiment of compassion. He watches for a grain of goodness or humility so that He can reward it with tons of grace.

Albert Schweitzer

The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Patrick Renn

He was facing a great number of years, regardless. But I think this does show some compassion on the part of the jury.

Laura Thomasson

I have come to a greater compassion for people who suffer. Why is this happening? I just want to put the question out there so people will have more compassion.

David Swanson

He was tremendously insightful. He had a lot of passion and compassion in his profession.