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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.
ambition mind firsts
Charles Caleb Colton Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.
ambition errors suffering
Charles Caleb Colton The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the unoffending. The cottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet, or the camp. When error sits in the seat of power and of authority, and is generated in high places, it may be compared to that torrent which originates indeed in the mountain, but commits its devastation in the vale.
ambition perception prudent
Alan Hansen It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.
ambition want plus
Aiden Wilson Tozer We have our ambition for the future and God. And thus we put God as a plus sign after something else we want.
ambition goal quality
Chogyam Trungpa There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal.
ambition successful men
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie You can have ambition But not too much You should aim to be successful But not too successful Otherwise you will threaten the man
ambition order desire
Edward Gibbon The love of freedom, so often invigorated and disgraced by private ambition, was reduced, among the licentious Franks, to the contempt of order, and the desire of impunity.
ambition voice feet
Edward Gibbon The imprudent Maximus disregarded these salutary considerations: he gratified his resentment and ambition; he saw the bleeding corpse of Valentinian at his feet; and he heard himself saluted Emperor by the unanimous voice of the senate and people. But the day of his inauguration was the last day of his happiness.
ambition men thinking
David Hume Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.
sleep soul church
Charles Spurgeon The fact is, brethren, we must have conversion work here. We cannot go on as some churches do without converts. We cannot, we will not, we must not, we dare not. Souls must be converted here, and if there be not many born to Christ, may the Lord grant to me that I may sleep in the tomb and be heard no more. Better indeed for us to die than to live, if souls be not saved.
sleep acceptance creating-life
Alan Watts Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.
sleep bridges oscars
Al Lewis Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!
sleep silence listening
Edward Hoagland Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.
sleep waste wasting-time
Edith Piaf For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.
sleep men night
Edith Stein Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
sleep reality sea
Edith Sitwell Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.
sleep artist iphone
David Hockney Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed... If you're in my kind of business you'd be a fool to sleep through that... Artists can't work office hours, can they?
sleep brain levels
David Brooks If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working on the problem anyway.