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humor heart sanity
Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity ... Agnes Repplier
humor fate effort
Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
humor obscure social
Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
humor essence mind
The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
humorous thinking trials
If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well. Alan Thicke
humor thinking needs
There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that.
humorous might canada
Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked. Charlie Chaplin
humorous rejection acting
Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
humor wicked-world politician
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
sadness humility thinking
My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else. Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue. C. S. Lewis
sadness mean thinking
What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual. Aaron Swartz
sadness being-funny
What a sad business is being funny!
sadness faces brightness
Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history. Charles Dickens
sadness cleansing reassuring
There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness. David Rakoff
sadness tantrums
All sadness is a tantrum. Byron Katie
sadness matter world
When your world has shattered, ain't nothing else matters. It ain't over, it's only love and that's all. Bryan Adams
sadness night years
God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: 'I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten' (Joel 2:25). God can give back all those years of sorrow, and you will be the better for them. God will grind sunlight out of your black nights. In the oven of affliction, grace will prepare the bread of delight. Someday you will thank God for all your sadness. Charles Spurgeon
sadness hands all-alone
You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages. Al Stewart
way awareness force
Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive. Carlos Castaneda
way like-you
You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.
way human-nature dont-change
Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all
way looks spirituality
Things don't change, only the way you look at them.
way environment has-beens
A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous. Carl Andre
way study dropping
I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping. Agnes de Mille
way
Fulfill your potential. That's the way to happiness. Agnes Martin
way born
Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy.
way sometimes innocent
Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn't have dared start. I started very - not innocent, but naïve in a way. Agnes Varda