1. A joke. 2. The object of laughter, sport, or mockery; laughing-stock.
abattoir ::: n. --> A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.
abderian ::: a. --> Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment.
abhayadAna. (T. mi 'jigs pa sbyin pa; C. wuwei [bu]shi/shi wuwei; J. mui[fu]se/semui; K. muoe[bo]si/si muoe 無畏[布]施/施無畏). In Sanskrit, the "gift of fearlessness"; said to be one of the expanded list of three (sometimes four) forms of giving/gifts (DANA), along with the "gift of dharma" (DHARMADANA) and the "gift of material goods" (AMIsADANA). This particular type of gift is typically offered by BODHISATTVAs, whose encouragement, consolation, teaching of the dharma, and so forth relieve the fears, worries, and tribulations of the beneficiary. The common Buddhist practice of purchasing animals from butchers in order to save them from slaughter (see FANGSHENG) is considered to be a form of abhayadAna.
ahasyam ::: cheerlessness; the negation of hasya or "laughter". ahasyam
a-hasyam ::: equality and laughter, a combination of the first and fourth members of the samata catus.t.aya.
Alesia Ancient Gaulish city (now called St. Reine) known for its Celtic Mysteries; the revolt of the central Gauls against the Romans under Caesar resulted in “the slaughter of the garrison at Alesia (or Alisa), and of all its inhabitants, including the Druids, the college-priests and the neophytes; after this the whole city was plundered and razed to the ground” (BCW 14:294-5), with the loss of the Druidic libraries. With the destruction soon after of nearby Bibractis (present-day Autun), Druidism was destroyed in Gaul. (BCW 14:311)
ana-hasyam ::: laughter of knowledge, expressing "felicity of illumination", an element of Mahesvari bhava and a form of devihasya. j ñanalipsa
ananda ::: delight full of laughter; (sama) ananda full of hasya.
appealable ::: a. --> Capable of being appealed against; that may be removed to a higher tribunal for decision; as, the cause is appealable.
That may be accused or called to answer by appeal; as, a criminal is appealable for manslaughter.
AryAstAngamArga. (P. ariyAtthangikamagga; T. 'phags lam yan lag brgyad; C. bazhengdao; J. hasshodo; K. p'alchongdo 八正道). In Sanskrit, "noble eightfold path"; the path (MARGA) that brings an end to the causes of suffering (DUḤKHA); the fourth of the FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS (catvAry AryasatyAni). This formulation of the Buddhist path to enlightenment appears in what is regarded as the Buddha's first sermon after his enlightenment, the "Setting Forth the Wheel of Dharma" (DHARMACAKRAPRAVARTANASuTRA), in which he sets forth a middle way (MADHYAMAPRATIPAD) between the extremes of asceticism and sensual indulgence. That middle way, he says, is the eightfold path, which, like the four truths, he calls "noble" (ARYA); the term is therefore commonly rendered as "noble eightfold path." However, as in the case of the four noble truths, what is noble is not the path but those who follow it, so the compound might be more accurately translated as "eightfold path of the [spiritually] noble." Later in the same sermon, the Buddha sets forth the four noble truths and identifies the fourth truth, the truth of the path, with the eightfold path. The noble eightfold path is comprised of (1) right views (SAMYAGDṚstI; P. sammAditthi), which involve an accurate understanding of the true nature of things, specifically the four noble truths; (2) right intention (SAMYAKSAMKALPA; P. sammAsankappa), which means avoiding thoughts of attachment, hatred, and harmful intent and promoting loving-kindness and nonviolence; (3) right speech (SAMYAGVAC; P. sammAvAcA), which means refraining from verbal misdeeds, such as lying, backbiting and slander, harsh speech and abusive language, and frivolous speech and gossip; (4) right action or right conduct (SAMYAKKARMANTA; P. sammAkammanta), which is refraining from physical misdeeds, such as killing, stealing, and sexual misconduct; (5) right livelihood (SAMYAGAJĪVA; P. sammAjīva), which entails avoiding trades that directly or indirectly harm others, such as selling slaves, selling weapons, selling animals for slaughter, dealing in intoxicants or poisons, or engaging in fortune-telling and divination; (6) right effort (SAMYAGVYAYAMA; P. sammAvAyAma), which is defined as abandoning unwholesome states of mind that have already arisen, preventing unwholesome states that have yet to arise, sustaining wholesome states that have already arisen, and developing wholesome states that have yet to arise; (7) right mindfulness (SAMYAKSMṚTI; P. sammAsati), which means to maintain awareness of the four foundations of mindfulness (SMṚTYUPASTHANA), viz., body, physical sensations, the mind, and phenomena; and (8) right concentration (SAMYAKSAMADHI; P. sammAsamAdhi), which is one pointedness of mind. ¶ The noble eightfold path receives less discussion in Buddhist literature than do the four noble truths (of which they are, after all, a constituent). Indeed, in later formulations, the eight factors are presented not so much as a prescription for behavior but as eight qualities that are present in the mind of a person who has understood NIRVAnA. The eightfold path may be reduced to a simpler, and more widely used, threefold schema of the path that comprises the "three trainings" (TRIsIKsA) or "higher trainings" (adhisiksA) in morality (sĪLA; P. sīla; see ADHIsĪLAsIKsA), concentration (SAMADHI, see ADHISAMADHIsIKsA), and wisdom (PRAJNA; P. paNNA; see ADHIPRAJNAsIKsA). In this schema, (1) right views and (2) right intention are subsumed under the training in higher wisdom (adhiprajNAsiksA); (3) right speech, (4) right conduct, and (5) right livelihood are subsumed under higher morality (adhisīlasiksA); and (6) right effort, (7) right mindfulness, and (8) right concentration are subsumed under higher concentration (adhisamAdhisiksA). According to the MADHYANTAVIBHAGA, a MAHAYANA work attributed to MAITREYANATHA, the eightfold noble path comprises the last set of eight of the thirty-seven constituents of enlightenment (BODHIPAKsIKADHARMA), where enlightenment (BODHI) is the complete, nonconceptual awakening achieved during the path of vision (DARsANAMARGA). After that vision, following the same pattern as the Buddha, right view is the perfect understanding of the vision, and right intention is the articulation of the vision that motivates the teaching of it. Right mindfulness, right effort, and right concentration correspond respectively to the four types of mindfulness (SMṚTYUPASTHANA), four efforts (PRAHAnA), and four ṚDDHIPADA ("legs of miraculous attainments," i.e., samAdhi) when they are perfect or right (samyak), after the vision of the four noble truths.
asyam ::: laughter of amusement, an attribute of Mahasarasvati and a form of devihasya.
Atma-ghata: Slaughter of the self; suicide, physical or otherwise; worldliness; ignorance ofthe nature of the Self.
at.t.ahasya (attahasya; attahasyam) ::: loud laughter, "the laughter that attahasya makes light of defeat and death and the powers of the ignorance", an element of Mahakali bhava or Can.d.ibhava, and the principal form of devihasya.
attahasya ::: [loud laughter], the laughter that makes light of defeat and death and the powers of the ignorance. ::: attahasyam [nominative]
battue ::: v. t. --> The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game.
The game itself.
The wanton slaughter of game.
beef ::: n. --> An animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.
The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food.
Applied colloquially to human flesh. ::: a.
bloodless ::: a. --> Destitute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless cheeks; lifeless; dead.
Not attended with shedding of blood, or slaughter; as, a bloodless victory.
Without spirit or activity.
bloodshed ::: n. --> The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.
bloody ::: a. --> Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.
Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief.
Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel.
Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle.
Bodawpaya. (r. 1782-1819). Burmese king and sixth monarch of the Konbaung dynasty (1752-1885). Originally known as Badon Min, he was the fourth son of Alaungpaya (r. 1752-1760), founder of the dynasty, and ascended to the throne through usurpation. His official regnal title was Hsinpyumyashin, "Lord of Many White Elephants"; the name by which he is most commonly known, Bodawpaya, "Lord Grandfather," is a posthumous sobriquet. Immediately upon becoming king in 1782, he began construction of a new capital, AMARAPURA, and convened a conclave of abbots, known as the THUDHAMMA (P. Sudhamm) council, to oversee a reform of the Burmese SAMGHA. In 1784, he conquered the kingdom of Arakan and transported its colossal palladium, the MAHAMUNI image of the Buddha (see ARAKAN BUDDHA), to Amarapura and enshrined it in a temple to the north of the city. Later, in 1787 he dispatched a Buddhist mission to Arakan to bring the Arakanese THERAVADA saMgha into conformity with Thudhamma standards. In 1791 Buddhist missions were sent from the capital to forty-two cities around the realm, each equipped with Thudhamma handbooks and newly edited copies of the Buddhist canon (tipitaka; S. TRIPItAKA). The missions were charged with the threefold task of defrocking unworthy monks, disestablishing local monastic fraternities, and reordaining worthy monks from these local groups into a single empire-wide monastic order under Thudhamma control. In conjunction with this policy of saMgha unification, a standardized syllabus for monastic education was promulgated and monks and novices throughout the realm were thenceforth required to pass state-administered PAli examinations or to leave the order. That same year (1791), Bodawpaya retired from the palace, placing the daily affairs of the kingdom in the hands of his son, the crown prince. While retaining ultimate royal authority, he donned the robes of a mendicant and took up residence at Mingun, some fifteen miles north of Amarapura on the opposite bank of the Irrawaddy River. There, he oversaw for several years the construction of the great Mingun pagoda, which, if it had been completed, would have been the largest pagoda in the world. The labor force for this project, numbering some twenty thousand people, was conscripted from the vanquished kingdom of Arakan. Strict and austere in temperament, Bodawpaya was quick to suppress heresy and banned the use of intoxicants and the slaughter of cattle, on penalty of death. He was enamored of Hindu science and sent several missions to India to acquire Brahmanical treatises on medicine, alchemy, astrology, calendrics, and what he hoped would be original Indian recensions of Buddhist scriptures. His missions reached BODHGAYA and returned with models of the main shrine and maps of its environs, which were used to create a miniature replica of the site at Mingun. He appointed Indian brAhmanas to refine court punctilio and attempted to reform the Burmese calendar along Indian lines. The calendar reforms were rejected by monastic leaders and this rebuff appears to have caused the king to become increasingly critical of the monkhood. Toward the end of his reign, Bodawpaya defrocked the Thudhamma patriarch, declaring the dispensation (P. sAsana; S. sASANA) of Gotama (GAUTAMA) Buddha to be extinct and its saMgha therefore defunct. This attempt to disestablish the Burmese saMgha met with little success outside the capital and was later abandoned. Bodawpaya's military campaigns against Arakan and Assam extended the borders of the Burmese empire to the frontiers of the British East India Company. The cruelty of Bodawpaya's rule in Arakan created an influx of refugees into British territory, who were regularly pursued by Burmese troops. Although British diplomacy kept tensions with the Burmese kingdom under control throughout Bodawpaya's reign, the stage was set for eventual military conflict between the two powers and the subsequent British conquest of Burma in three wars during the nineteenth century.
burlesque ::: a. --> Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical. ::: n. --> Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque
butchering ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Butcher ::: n. --> The business of a butcher.
The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly.
butcher ::: n. --> One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.
A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle. ::: v. t. --> To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market;
butchery ::: n. --> The business of a butcher.
Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter.
A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.
cachinnation ::: n. --> Loud or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections.
cachinnatory ::: a. --> Consisting of, or accompanied by, immoderate laughter.
carnage ::: massive slaughter, as in war; a massacre.
carnage ::: n. --> Flesh of slain animals or men.
Great destruction of life, as in battle; bloodshed; slaughter; massacre; murder; havoc.
cataplexy: sudden paralysis of some or all muscles brought on by laughter, anger, or strong emotions; a hallmark of narcolepsy.
cheshwarabhavah sarvakarmasamarthyam) ::: heroism, impetuosity, the urge towards battle, loud laughter, compassion, sovereignty, capacity for all action: the four specific attributes of Mahakali and the three attributes common to all four aspects of daivi prakr.ti. savaso napatah savaso
child ::: 1. A person between birth and full growth. 2. A baby or infant. 3. A person who has not attained maturity. 4. One who is childish or immature. 5. An individual regarded as strongly affected by another or by a specified time, place, or circumstance. 6. Any person or thing regarded as the product or result of particular agencies, influences, etc. Child, child"s, children, Children, children"s, child-god, Child-Godhead, child-heart, child-heart"s, child-laughter, child-soul, child-sovereign, child-thought, flame-child, foster-child, God-child, King-children.
convulse ::: v. t. --> To contract violently and irregulary, as the muscular parts of an animal body; to shake with irregular spasms, as in excessive laughter, or in agony from grief or pain.
To agitate greatly; to shake violently.
deathful ::: a. --> Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody.
Liable to undergo death; mortal.
devihasya (devihasya; devi-hasya; devi hasya; devihasyam) ::: laughter devihasya of the Goddess, "the laughter of the Shakti doing luminously the work of the Divine and taking his Ananda in all the worlds"; a union of the .. four kinds of hasya proper to the four aspects of devibhava.
Divination [from Latin divination a soothsayer from divus spiritual being, god] The art of obtaining hidden knowledge by the aid of spiritual or ethereal beings. It is divisible into two main kinds: the inducing of seership or clairvoyance, and the interpretation of signs. Under the former come the oracular responses of the Pythian priestess, of the Cumaean Sibyl, and many similar instances, including all cases where the diviner induces trance or clairvoyance, whether in himself by natural power or by incantations, drugs, or other preparations; or in a subject, as when ink is poured into the palm of a child, who sees visions in it, or by some kind of hypnotism. Under the second head come geomancy, augury, the reading of the marks on the liver of a slaughtered animal, reading cards, Chinese throwing-sticks, predictive astrology, palmistry, numerology, and a great variety of other forms. Between the two classes are ranged such practices as gazing into crystal or water, where external means and interior vision both play a part in the result. Often it is a means of utilizing one’s own inner faculties, whether by natural or induced clairvoyance, or by employing the agencies which regulate events apparently casual such as the fall of the cards, the marks in the sand, the drawing of lots; and this last is related to the subject of omens.
droll ::: superl. --> Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange. ::: n. --> One whose practice it is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a jester; a buffoon; a merry-andrew.
Something exhibited to raise mirth or sport, as a puppet, a
embarrass ::: v. t. --> To hinder from freedom of thought, speech, or action by something which impedes or confuses mental action; to perplex; to discompose; to disconcert; as, laughter may embarrass an orator.
To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct; as, business is embarrassed; public affairs are embarrassed.
To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to incumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands; -- said of a person or his affairs; as, a man or his business is embarrassed
emoticon ::: (chat) /ee-moh'ti-kon/ An ASCII glyph used to indicate an emotional state in electronic mail or news. Although originally intended mostly as jokes, comments to be badly misinterpreted (not always even by newbies), resulting in arguments and flame wars.Hundreds of emoticons have been proposed, but only a few are in common use. These include: :-) smiley face (for humour, laughter,friendliness, occasionally sarcasm) generic term synonymous with emoticon, as well as specifically for the happy-face emoticon.The emoticon was invented by one Scott Fahlman on the CMU bboard systems on 1982-09-19. He later wrote: I wish I had saved the original post, or at least that he remembers this original posting, which has subsequently been .As with exclamation marks, overuse of the smiley is a mark of loserhood! More than one per paragraph is a fairly sure sign that you've gone over the line.[Jargon File](2006-07-12)
emoticon "messaging" /ee-moh'ti-kon/ (Or "smiley") An {ASCII} {glyph} used to indicate an emotional state in text-only {electronic messaging} systems such as {chat}, {electronic mail}, {SMS} or {news}. Although originally intended mostly as jokes, emoticons are widely recognised if not expected; the lack of verbal and visual cues can otherwise cause non-serious comments to be misinterpreted, resulting in offence, arguments and {flame wars}. Hundreds of emoticons have been proposed, but only a few are in common use. These include: :-) "smiley face" (for humour, laughter, friendliness, occasionally sarcasm) :-( "frowney face" (for sadness, anger, or upset) ;-) "half-smiley" (ha ha only serious); also known as "semi-smiley" or "winkey face". :-/ "wry face" These are more recognisable if you tilt your head to the left. The first two are by far the most frequently encountered. Hyphenless forms of them are also common. The acronym "{lol}" is also often used in the same context for the same effect (and is easier to type). The emoticon was invented by one Scott Fahlman on the {CMU} {bboard} systems on 1982-09-19. He later wrote: "I had no idea that I was starting something that would soon pollute all the world's communication channels." {GLS} confirms that he remembers this original posting, which has subsequently been {retrieved from a backup (http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Smiley/BBoard_Contents.html)}. As with exclamation marks, overuse of the smiley is a mark of loserhood! More than one per paragraph is a fairly sure sign that you've gone over the line. [{Jargon File}] (2010-05-16)
facetious ::: a. --> Given to wit and good humor; merry; sportive; jocular; as, a facetious companion.
Characterized by wit and pleasantry; exciting laughter; as, a facetious story or reply.
fangsheng. (T. srog blu/tshe thar; J. hojo; K. pangsaeng 放生). In Chinese, "releasing living creatures," referring to the practice of buying captured animals, such as fish, turtles, or birds, and then setting them free; the focus of a ritual popular in East Asian Buddhism, the "ceremony of releasing living creatures" (FANGSHENG HUI). The Buddhist tradition asserts that merit (PUnYA) is produced by both actively pursuing wholesome actions (KUsALA-KARMAPATHA) as well as refraining from unwholesome actions (AKUsALA-KARMAPATHA); fangsheng is regarded as an enhancement of both types of action, by furthering the first lay precept (sĪLA) that forbids the unsalutary action of killing, as well as the MAHĀYĀNA precept that encourages the salutary act of vegetarianism. ¶ The two representative scriptures on fangsheng are the FANWANG JING ("Book of Brahmā's Net") and the SUVARnAPRABHĀSOTTAMASuTRA (C. Jinguangming jing; "Sutra of Golden Light"), the former providing the doctrinal basis for the practice of fangsheng, the latter a protypical example of a fangsheng hui. The Fanwang jing says that because all sentient beings in the six destinies (sAdGATI; see also GATI) have at some time or other during the vastness of SAMSĀRA been one's parents, a person should always strive to rescue creatures from people who would kill them in order to save them from their torment. The Suvarnaprabhāsottamasutra tells a story about Jalavāhana (sĀKYAMUNI Buddha in an earlier life), who saved ten thousand fish who were dying in a dried up pond by bringing water to refill it. He then recited for them the ten epithets of the buddha Ratnasikhin/Ratnabhava, since he had been told that any creatures who heard that Buddha's name at the time of their deaths would be reborn in the heavens. The fish were reborn as divinities in the TRĀYASTRIMsA heaven, who then rained jewels down on the earth.¶ In China, the Buddhist custom of vegetarianism had started to pervade the culture by the Qi (479-501) and Liang (502-556) dynasties, a custom that encouraged the freeing of animals. In 619, an imperial decree prohibited fishing, hunting, and the slaughter of animals during the first, fifth, and ninth months of the year. A decree of 759 established eighty-one ponds for the release and protection of fish. Fangsheng appears to have been practiced not only by individual laypeople and monks. There is a record of the Liang dynasty monk Huiji (456-515) who practiced mendicancy so he could buy and release captured animals. TIANTAI ZHIYI (538-597), the founder of the TIANTAI ZONG, is known to have performed a formal ceremony for releasing animals in 575. Zhiyi lamented the fact that local folk made their living by catching fish, so he built a "pond where creatures could be released" (fangsheng chi) and preached to the freed fish the SADDHARMAPUndARĪKASuTRA and the Suvarnaprabhāsottamasutra. Zhiyi thus established the Suvarnaprabhāsottamasutra as the scriptural authority for fangsheng. Following Zhiyi, the fangsheng ceremony subsequently became one of the important rituals used within the Tiantai school. Ciyun Zunshi (964-1032) and SIMING ZHILI (960-1028), both Tiantai monks during the Song dynasty, were ardent advocates of fangsheng, who established ponds for releasing creatures and performed the ceremony of releasing creatures, especially in conjunction with celebrations of the Buddha's birthday. In the CHAN school, YONGMING YANSHOU (904-975) and YUNQI ZHUHONG (1535-1615) were among the most enthusiastic proponents of fangsheng. Zhuhong wrote works regarding the practice of vegetarianism, including the Shirou ("On Meat-Eating") and the Shasheng feirensuowei ("Killing Is Not What Humans Are Supposed To Do"), and also composed tracts on the ritual practice of fangsheng, such as the Fangsheng yi ("Rite for Releasing Living Creatures") and the Jiesha fangsheng wen ("Text on Prohibiting Killing and Releasing Living Creatures"). His Fangsheng yi is still considered today one of the standard sources for the Fangsheng ritual. Eventually, almost every large monastery in China had a pool for releasing fish and pens for the care of livestock that had been rescued from the butcher. Because these animals had been given Buddhist precepts, they were encouraged to observe them, with males and females segregated and carnivorous fish kept separately. Birds, turtles, and fish were more popular for release than domesticated animals because they required no further assistance. The pious who delivered cows and pigs to the monastery, however, were required to contribute toward their sustenance. ¶ The practice was popular in other Buddhist countries. In medieval Japan the imperial government would order the capture of three times the number of fish needed to be released at a ceremony in order that the requisite number-often from one to three thousand-would still be alive by the time the ceremony took place. In such cases, the practice of releasing animals resulted in the unfortunate death of many before they could be liberated. Among Tibetan Buddhists, the killing of animals is normatively deplored, and protecting the life of even the tiniest insect (srog skyob) is a common practice; in the LHA SA region, a small Muslim community traditionally performed the task of killing and butchering animals; farmers and nomads butcher some of their animals each year. Vegetarianism (sha med) is admired, but not widespread in Tibet, except during the first two weeks of the fourth Tibetan month SA GA ZLA BA when, it is believed, the results of wholesome actions increase one hundred thousand times. Buying an animal destined for slaughter to protect one's own life, or more commonly to protect the life of an important religious figure, is also common; that practice is known as tshe thar, lit., "liberating life" in Tibetan.
farce: A form of low comedy designed to provoke laughter through highly exaggerated caricatures of people in improbable or silly situations.
Farsi/Urdu zabh: slaughtering, killing, butchering; slaughter by slitting the throat. (in some texts as zebah)
fatling ::: n. --> A calf, lamb, kid, or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; -- said of such animals as are used for food.
fatten ::: v. t. --> To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.
To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood. ::: v. i. --> To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or
feeder ::: n. --> One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward.
One who furnishes incentives; an encourager.
One who eats or feeds; specifically, an animal to be fed or fattened.
One who fattens cattle for slaughter.
A stream that flows into another body of water; a tributary; specifically (Hydraulic Engin.), a water course which
First Cabal, the: A hand-picked group of nine representatives for the first official Traditions Council; betrayed from within and half-slaughtered, its survivors scattered afterward. Considered a bad omen for the budding Council, but also considered an inspiration by later mages.
Furies: In Roman mythology, the three sisters Alecto, Megæra and Tisiphone, punishers of evildoers, personifications of rage, envy and slaughter.
gambrel ::: n. --> The hind leg of a horse.
A stick crooked like a horse&
gelastic ::: a. --> Pertaining to laughter; used in laughing.
geloscopy ::: n. --> Divination by means of laughter.
guffaw ::: n. --> A loud burst of laughter; a horse laugh.
ha ::: interj. --> An exclamation denoting surprise, joy, or grief. Both as uttered and as written, it expresses a great variety of emotions, determined by the tone or the context. When repeated, ha, ha, it is an expression of laughter, satisfaction, or triumph, sometimes of derisive laughter; or sometimes it is equivalent to "Well, it is so."
hasya (hasya; hasyam) ::: literally "laughter"; "a clear joy and laughter of the soul embracing life and existence", a stronger form of atmaprasada, the last member of the samata / santi catus.t.aya; sometimes equivalent to devihasya.
havoc ::: n. --> Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste.
A cry in war as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter. ::: v. t. --> To devastate; to destroy; to lay waste.
H. B. Curry, Consistency and completeness of the theory of combinators, ibid , pp. 54-61. Comedy: In Aristotle (Poetics), a play in which chief characters behave worse than men do in daily life, as contrasted with tragedy, where the main characters act more nobly. In Plato's Symposium, Socrates argues at the end that a writer of good comedies is able to write good tragedies. See Comic. Metaphysically, comedy in Hegel consists of regarding reality as exhausted in a single category. Cf. Bergson, Le rire (Laughter). Commentator, The: Name usually used for Averroes by the medieval authors of the 13th century and later. In the writings of the grammarians (modistae, dealing with modis significandi) often used for Petrus Heliae. -- R.A.
Hebron Massacre (1929) ::: Following an outbreak of violence in Jerusalem in 1929, riots spread across all of British Mandatory Palestine and lasted for months. In the ancient Jewish city of Hebron, 64 unarmed Jewish men, women, and children were slaughtered on August 24 and the entire Jewish population of Hebron fled before returning in 1967 after the Six Day War.
hecatomb ::: n. --> A sacrifice of a hundred oxen or cattle at the same time; hence, the sacrifice or slaughter of any large number of victims.
humorous ::: a. --> Moist; humid; watery.
Subject to be governed by humor or caprice; irregular; capricious; whimsical.
Full of humor; jocular; exciting laughter; playful; as, a humorous story or author; a humorous aspect.
immoderate ::: a. --> Not moderate; exceeding just or usual and suitable bounds; excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands; immoderate grief; immoderate laughter.
In l'homme qui rit, meaning "The man who laughs" in French, a patient displays inappropriate laughter accompanied by release phenomena of the frontal subdominant lobe.
Innocents In ancient Judea this name, and that of infants or little ones, was given to neophytes and initiates just born, meaning that they were newly become such. We find the same usage in the New Testament story of the murder of the Innocents by Herod: in its original it meant the murder of chelas or initiates, but has been adapted in the Christian scriptures to mean the slaughter of actual babies with a view to include the body of Jesus.
internecine ::: a. --> Involving, or accompanied by, mutual slaughter; mutually destructive.
internecion ::: n. --> Mutual slaughter or destruction; massacre.
It may be added that such practices as the slaughter of animals in order to read the entrails can scarcely be regarded, in any age, as pertaining to divine or white magic.
Jīvakasutta. In Pāli, "Discourse to Jīvaka," fifty-fifth sutta in the MAJJHIMANIKĀYA (there is no equivalent recension in the Chinese translations of the ĀGAMAs). The Buddha addressed this discourse to his physician, JĪVAKA Komārabhacca, while he dwelled in the physician's mango grove in Rājagaha (S. RĀJAGṚHA). Jīvaka inquires whether it is true that the Buddha eats meat prepared for him from animals killed for his sake, or whether this is a misrepresentation of his practice. The Buddha explains that there are three instances when a monk should not eat meat that has been offered to him: when it is heard, seen, or suspected that a living creature has been intentionally slaughtered to feed him. Apart from these three exceptions, a monk is permitted to accept and eat meat. He further explains that a monk should not show preference for one kind of food over another, nor be greedy in eating. Rather he should eat what he receives dispassionately, noting that food is eaten only to sustain the health of the body in order vigorously to pursue the path to liberation. Pleased by the discourse, Jīvaka Komārabhacca dedicates himself as a lay disciple of the buddha.
Kandarakasutta. In Pāli, "Discourse to Kandaraka," the fifty-first sutta of the MAJJHIMANIKĀYA (there is no equivalent recension in the Chinese translations of the ĀGAMAS), preached by the Buddha to a gathering of monks on the banks of Gaggarā lake at Campā. Kandaraka, a wandering ascetic, visits the Buddha in the company of Pessa, the son of an elephant driver, and marvels at the silence maintained by the Buddha's congregation of disciples. The Buddha tells him that his disciples are self-controlled through their practice of the four foundations of mindfulness (P. satipatthāna; S. SMṚTYUPASTHĀNA). He then tells Pessa about four types of persons in the world: those who torment themselves, those who torment others, those who torment both themselves and others, and those who torment neither themselves nor others. After their departure, the Buddha addresses his disciples and elaborates on what he means by the four types of persons. Those who torment themselves are ascetics who undertake various mortification practices (see TAPAS). Those who torment others are butchers, hunters, fishermen, thieves, executioners, and prison wardens. Those who torment themselves and others are kings and their consorts who sponsor sacrifices wherein they undergo severe penances themselves and order the slaughter of sacrificial animals. Finally, those who torment neither themselves nor others are persons who have renounced the household life and gone forth as disciples of the Buddha. They abstain from extreme asceticism and harming others; they abstain from acquisitiveness and abide by the monastic rules; they practice meditation and quiet the mind; and they attain the four degrees of meditative absorption (JHĀNA; S. DHYĀNA) and the three knowledges (tevijjā; S. TRIVIDYĀ). The Buddha enumerates the three knowledges as (1) recollection of one's own previous lives (pubbenivāsānussati; S. PuRVANIVĀSĀNUSMṚTI); (2) the divine eye (dibbacakkhu; S. DIVYACAKsUS), or the ability to see the demise and rebirth of beings according to their good and evil deeds; and (3) knowledge of the extinction of the contaminants (āsavakkhāya; S. ĀSRAVAKsAYA), which encompasses knowledge of the FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS (ariyasacca; S. āryasatya) and is equivalent to arhatship.
kink ::: n. --> A twist or loop in a rope or thread, caused by a spontaneous doubling or winding upon itself; a close loop or curl; a doubling in a cord.
An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
A fit of coughing; also, a convulsive fit of laughter. ::: v. i.
knacker ::: n. --> One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc.
One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; -- called also clapper.
a harness maker.
One who slaughters worn-out horses and sells their flesh for dog&
Kosher ::: (kasher). "Proper", "fit", or "ritually correct"; kashrut refers to ritually correct Jewish dietary practices. Traditional Jewish dietary laws are based on biblical legislation. Only land animals that chew the cud and have split hooves (sheep, beef; not pigs, camels) are permitted and must be slaughtered in a special way. Further, meat products may not be eaten with milk products or immediately thereafter. Of sea creatures, only those (fish) having fins and scales are permitted. Fowl is considered a meat food and also has to be slaughtered in a special manner.
Kuru (also known as laughing sickness due to the outbursts of laughter that mark its second phase) was first noted in New Guinea in the early 1900s. Kuru is now known to be a prion disease, one of several known transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
laniary ::: a. --> Lacerating or tearing; as, the laniary canine teeth.
The shambles; a place of slaughter.
A laniary, or canine, tooth.
laughable ::: a. --> Fitted to excite laughter; as, a laughable story; a laughable scene.
laughingly ::: adv. --> With laughter or merriment.
laughsome ::: a. --> Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry.
laughterless ::: a. --> Not laughing; without laughter.
laughter ::: v. i. --> A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. See Laugh, v. i.
laugh ::: v. i. --> To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.
Fig.: To be or appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
ludicrous ::: a. --> Adapted to excite laughter, without scorn or contempt; sportive.
MAHAKALI ::: Goddess of the supreme strength ; with her are all mights and spiritual force and severest austerity of lapas and swiftness to the battle and the victory and the laughter, the attahosya, that makes light of defeat and death and the powers of the ignorance. .*
Afa/ifliflh' and Kdh are not the same. Kali is a lesser form.
Mahakali in the higher planes appears usually with the golden colour.
Mahānāman. (P. Mahānāma; T. Ming chen; C. Mohenan; J. Makanan; K. Mahanam 摩訶男). The Sanskrit proper name of two significant disciples of the buddha. ¶ Mahānāman was one of the five ascetics (S. PANCAVARGIKA; P. paNcavaggiyā; alt. S. bhadravargīya) who was a companion of Prince SIDDHĀRTHA during his practice of austerities and hence one of the first disciples converted by the Buddha at the Deer Park (MṚGADĀVA) in ṚsIPATANA following his enlightenment. Together with his companions, Mahānāman heard the Buddha's first sermon, the "Setting in Motion the Wheel of Dharma" (S. DHARMACAKRAPRAVARTANASuTRA; P. DHAMMACAKKAPPAVATTANASUTTA), and he attained the state of a stream-enterer (SROTAĀPANNA) three days later. He and the others became ARHATs while listening to the buddha preach the ANATTALAKKHAnASUTTA. Mahānāman later traveled to the town of Macchikāsanda, and, while he was out on alms rounds, the householder CITTA saw him. Citta was greatly impressed by Mahānāman's dignified deportment, and invited him to his house for an meal offering. Having served Mahānāman the morning meal and listened to his sermon, Citta was inspired to offer his pleasure garden Ambātakavana to Mahānāman as a gift to the SAMGHA, and built a monastery there. ¶ Another Mahānāman was also an eminent lay disciple, whom the Buddha declared to be foremost among laymen who offer choice alms food. According to the Pāli account, Mahānāman was Anuruddha's (S. ANIRUDDHA) elder brother and the Buddha's cousin. It was with Mahānāman's permission that Anuruddha joined the order with other Sākiyan (S. sĀKYA) kinsmen of the Buddha. Mahānāman was very generous in his support of the order. During a period of scarcity when the Buddha was dwelling at VeraNja, he supplied the monks with medicines for three periods of four months each. Mahānāman was keenly interested in the Buddha's doctrine and there are several accounts in the scriptures of his conversations with the Buddha. Once while the Buddha lay ill in the Nigrodhārāma, ĀNANDA took Mahānāman aside to answer his questions on whether concentration (SAMĀDHI) preceded or followed upon knowledge. Mahānāman attained the state of a once-returner (sakadāgāmi; S. SAKṚDĀGĀMIN), but his deception toward Pasenadi (S. PRASENAJIT), the king of Kosala (S. KOsALA), precipitated the eventual destruction of the Sākiya (S. sĀKYA) clan. Pasenadi had asked Mahānāman for the hand of a true Sākiyan daughter in marriage, but the latter, out of pride, instead sent Vāsabhakkhattiyā, a daughter born to him by a slave girl. To conceal the treachery, Mahānāman feigned to eat from the same dish as his daughter, thus convincing Pasenadi of her pure lineage. The ruse was not discovered until years later when Vidudabha, the son of Pasenadi and Vāsabhakkhattiyā, was insulted by his Sākiyan kinsmen who refused to treat him with dignity because of his mother's status as the offspring of a slave. Vidudabha vowed revenge and later marched against Kapilavatthu (S. KAPILAVASTU) and slaughtered all who claimed Sākiyan descent. ¶ Another Mahānāma was the c. fifth century author of the Pāli MAHĀVAMSA.
manslaughter ::: n. --> The slaying of a human being; destruction of men.
The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligenc/ or incidentally to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger.
manslayer ::: n. --> One who kills a human being; one who commits manslaughter.
massacre ::: n. --> The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; as, the massacre on St. Bartholomew&
matanza ::: n. --> A place where animals are slaughtered for their hides and tallow.
merrily ::: adv. --> In a merry manner; with mirth; with gayety and laughter; jovially. See Mirth, and Merry.
merriment ::: n. --> Gayety, with laughter; mirth; frolic.
merriness ::: n. --> The quality or state of being merry; merriment; mirth; gayety, with laughter.
merry ::: superl. --> Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive.
Cheerful; joyous; not sad; happy.
Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight; as, / merry jest. ::: n.
mirth ::: gaiety or jollity, esp. when accompanied by laughter.
mirth ::: n. --> Merriment; gayety accompanied with laughter; jollity.
That which causes merriment.
mockery ::: n. --> The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance.
Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous merriment; derision; ridicule.
Subject of laughter, derision, or sport.
Nolini: Chance is like a child at play. That is to say, it laughs and goes about, there is no rule about anything it does; laughter at play. There is no wisdom in its movements. The wisdom is behind and comes out of the irregular movements of Chance. It is not meaningless, there is some knowledge behind.
populicide ::: n. --> Slaughter of the people.
prema bhavasamr.ddhih. saundaryalipsa snehahasyam ::: love, richness of feeling, the urge towards beauty, laughter of affection (the attributes of Mahalaks.mi).
premahasyam ::: laughter of love, an element of Mahalaks.mi bhava premahasyam and a form of devihasya.
ridicule ::: n. --> An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.
Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an object of laughter; banter; -- a term lighter than derision.
Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
ridicule (‘s) ::: words or actions intended to evoke contemptuous laughter at or feelings toward a person or thing.
ripply ::: a. --> Having ripples; as, ripply water; hence, resembling the sound of rippling water; as, ripply laughter; a ripply cove.
risible ::: a. --> Having the faculty or power of laughing; disposed to laugh.
Exciting laughter; worthy to be laughed at; amusing.
Used in, or expressing, laughter; as, risible muscles.
risorial ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or producing, laughter; as, the risorial muscles.
sahasya ::: with laughter (hasya), full of a "gladness and cheerfulness sahasya which no adverse experience mental or physical can trouble".
saMghāta. (P. sanghāta; T. bsdus 'joms; C. zhonghe [diyu]; J. shugo[jigoku]; K. chunghap [chiok] 衆合[地獄]). In Sanskrit, lit. "crushing"; the name of the third of eight stratified hot hells that are detailed in many Buddhist cosmological models. The Sanskrit term saMghāta has a variety of meanings and the exact nature and method of the torment experienced in this hell varies from source to source. One of its meanings is "crushing" and thus saMghāta is often rendered in English as the "crushing hell." Creatures unfortunate enough to be reborn in this destiny are commonly described as being continually crushed together between mountain ranges. Alternatively, they may be crushed by iron rollers, plates, and even iron elephants that come at them from the four directions while they are trapped waist-deep in a thick sheet of iron. This form of the saMghāta hell is most often associated with sexual misconduct. However, the Sadgatikārikā describes saMghāta in altogether different terms. It takes the Sanskrit term saMghāta as meaning "heap" or "collection," and beings reborn in that hell are piled into heaps and slaughtered together as punishment for having killed living creatures.
sauryam ugrata yuddhalipsat.t.ahasyaṁ ::: heroism, impetuosity, the urge towards battle, loud laughter (the attributes of Mahakali).
Seder V, Kodashim (holy things), 11 tractates: sacrifices, slaughter of animals, ritual dietetics, first born animals, vows, excommunication, sacrilege, temple architecture and rituals.
self-slaughter ::: n. --> Suicide.
shamble ::: n. --> One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level.
A place where butcher&
Shechinah ::: Divine Presence. ::: Shechitah ::: Ritual animal slaughter.
Shohet ::: A ritual slaughterer. ::: Shomer ::: (pl. shomrim). Watchman, guardian.
slain ::: slaughtered; killed. Also, past participle of slay.
slam ::: v. t. --> To shut with force and a loud noise; to bang; as, he slammed the door.
To put in or on some place with force and loud noise; -- usually with down; as, to slam a trunk down on the pavement.
To strike with some implement with force; hence, to beat or cuff.
To strike down; to slaughter.
To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks
slaughtered ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Slaughter
slaughterer ::: n. --> One who slaughters.
slaughterhouse ::: n. --> A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
slaughtering ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Slaughter
slaughterman ::: n. --> One employed in slaughtering.
slaughtermen ::: pl. --> of Slaughterman
slaughterous ::: a. --> Destructive; murderous.
slaughter ::: the brutal or violent killing of a person or large numbers of people indiscriminately in war, battle, etc.; massacre, carnage. slaughter"s, slaughtered, half-slaughtered.
slaughter ::: v. t. --> The act of killing.
The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage.
The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.
To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle.
To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.
sneha-hasyam ::: laughter of affection, an element of Mahalaks.mi sneha-hasyam bhava and a form of devihasya. snigdhat snigdhata a, tejah tejahslagha, kalyan.asraddha, premasamarthyam
snicker ::: v. i. --> To laugh slyly; to laugh in one&
Sona-Kolivīsa. (S. srona-ViMsatikoti/srona-KotiviMsa; T. Gro bzhin skyes bye ba nyi shu pa; C. Shoulongna/Ershiyi'er; J. Shurona/Nijuokuni; K. Surongna/Isibogi 守籠那/二十億耳). Pāli name of an ARHAT declared by the Buddha to be foremost among his monk disciples in striving energetically. According to the Pāli account, he was born the son of a wealthy man in the country of Campā. Because he had given a precious ring to a PRATYEKABUDDHA (P. paccekabuddha) in a previous life, his body was the color of burnished gold. His hands and feet were delicate, and fine curly hair covered his feet. King BIMBISĀRA of MAGADHA wished to see the unusual markings of the youth and sent for him. While at the Magadha capital of RĀJAGṚHA, Sona and eighty thousand companions went to see the Buddha, who was preaching at that time in the city. Impressed by the miraculous powers displayed by Sāgata (S. SVĀGATA), the Buddha's attendant, Sona asked his parents to allow him to enter the order. After his ordination, the Buddha gave Sona a subject of meditation (KAMMAttHĀNA), and Sona retired to the sītavana grove to practice. Sona strove diligently, taking up walking meditation as his main practice; however, because he was interrupted by frequent visitors, he made little progress and grew despondent. His feet became blistered and bled, so much so that the meditation path (P. cankama, S. CAnKRAMA) upon which he walked was soaked in blood like a slaughter house. Seeing this scene, the Buddha instructed Sona on how to temper his energy with tranquility, and in due time he attained arhatship. Because of his delicate feet, the Buddha is said to have given Sona dispensation to wear sandals of a single layer, even though monks and nuns were required to go barefoot. Sona declined the exemption, however, for he did not wish to be treated more leniently than his fellow monks. In response, the Buddha then gave permission to all his monks to use such sandals.
sukhahasyam ::: laughter of happiness, an element of Mahasarasvati sukhahasyam bhava and a form of devihasya.
talk "chat, tool, networking, messaging" A {Unix} program and {protocol} supporting conversation between two or more users who may be logged into the same computer or different computers on a network. Variants include {ntalk}, {ytalk}, and {ports} or {emulators} of these programs for other {platforms}. {Unix} has the {talk} program and {protocol} and its variants {xtalk} and {ytalk} for the {X Window System}; {VMS} has {phone}; {Windows for Workgroups} has {chat}. {ITS} also has a talk system. These split the screen into separate areas for each user. {Unix}'s {write} command can also be used, though it does not attempt to separate input and output on the screen. Users of such systems are said to be in {talk mode} which has many conventional abbreviations and idioms. Most of these survived into {chat} jargon, but many fell out of common use with the migration of {user} prattle from talk-like systems to {chat} systems in the early 1990s. These disused talk-specific forms include: "BYE?" - are you ready to close the conversation? This is the standard way to end a talk-mode conversation; the other person types "BYE" to confirm, or else continues the conversation. "JAM"/"MIN" - just a minute "O" - "over" (I have stopped talking). Also "/" as in x/y - x over y, or two newlines (the latter being the most common). "OO" - "over and out" - end of conversation. "\" - Greek {lambda}. "R U THERE?" - are you there? "SEC" - wait a second. "/\/\/" - laughter. But on a {MUD}, this usually means "earthquake fault". See also {talk bomb}. (1998-01-25)
talk ::: (chat, tool, networking, messaging) A Unix program and protocol supporting conversation between two or more users who may be logged into the same computer or different computers on a network. Variants include ntalk, ytalk, and ports or emulators of these programs for other platforms.Unix has the talk program and protocol and its variants xtalk and ytalk for the X Window System; VMS has phone; Windows for Workgroups has chat. ITS also has a talk system. These split the screen into separate areas for each user.Unix's write command can also be used, though it does not attempt to separate input and output on the screen.Users of such systems are said to be in talk mode which has many conventional abbreviations and idioms. Most of these survived into chat jargon, but many fell out of common use with the migration of user prattle from talk-like systems to chat systems in the early 1990s. These disused talk-specific forms include:BYE? - are you ready to close the conversation? This is the standard way to end a talk-mode conversation; the other person types BYE to confirm, or else continues the conversation.JAM/MIN - just a minuteO - over (I have stopped talking). Also / as in x/y - x over y, or two newlines (the latter being the most common).OO - over and out - end of conversation.\ - Greek lambda.R U THERE? - are you there?SEC - wait a second./\/\/ - laughter. But on a MUD, this usually means earthquake fault.See also talk bomb. (1998-01-25)
tickle ::: v. t. --> To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted.
To please; to gratify; to make joyous. ::: v. i. --> To feel titillation.
twitter ::: n. --> One who twits, or reproaches; an upbraider.
The act of twittering; a small, tremulous, intermitted noise, as that made by a swallow.
A half-suppressed laugh; a fit of laughter partially restrained; a titter; a giggle.
A slight trembling or agitation of the nerves. ::: v. i.
unlaugh ::: v. t. --> To recall, as former laughter.
Virudhaka. (P. Virulhaka [alt. Vidudabha]; T. 'Phags skyes po; C. Zengzhang tian; J. Zojoten; K. Chŭngjang ch'on 增長天). Sanskrit proper name of one of the four LOKAPĀLA, the kings of the four directions who reside on the four sides of Mount SUMERU. He is king of the south and resides on the southern face of the central mountain, where he is lord of the kumbhandas. ¶ Virudhaka (corresponding to the Pāli transcription Vidudabha) is also the proper name of a king of KOsALA at the time of the Buddha; he was the son of the Buddha's patron, PRASENAJIT, and usurped his father's throne. When Prasenajit ascended the throne, he requested a wife from the sĀKYA tribe. The sākyas instead sent a maidservant, claiming that she was from a noble family, and she eventually gave birth to Virudhaka. As a boy, he visited KAPILAVASTU and learned of his low birth. Realizing that his father had been deceived, he vowed to take revenge upon the sākyas. After his father's death, he led an army against Kapilavastu, destroying the sākya kingdom and slaughtering its inhabitants. A violent storm caused a flood during the night, and Virudhaka and his warriors, who were sleeping in the riverbed, were swept away. See also CĀTURMAHĀRĀJAKĀYIKA.
wisdom suckling the child-laughter of Chance
wisdom ::: wisdom suckling the child-laughter of Chance
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1 Saint Charles Borromeo
1 Robert Fulghum
1 Red Skelton
1 Nirodbaran
1 Mikhail Bakhtin
1 Longchenpa
1 Ken Wilber
1 Kahlil Gibran
1 https://wiki.auroville.org.in/wiki/Nirodbaran
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1:Laughter is threatening to tyrants. ~ Alan Watts, #KEYS
2:Nothing is more silly than silly laughter. ~ Catullus, #KEYS
3:The only real laughter comes from despair.
~ Groucho Marx,#KEYS
4:Only laughter can be gotten away with for free.
~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Null,#KEYS
5:Cynicism, sadness or laughter is the magicians privilege.
~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Null,#KEYS
6:Within tears, find hidden laughter. Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #KEYS
7:The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed." ~ Bennett Cerf, #KEYS
8:There are muffled throbs of laughter's undertones, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, #KEYS
9:There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor." ~ Charles Dickens, #KEYS
10:The philosophy of laughter will never have anything in common with the religion of tears.
~ Eliphas Levi,#KEYS
11:Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that we were compelled to invent laughter. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #KEYS
12:What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
~ Soren Kierkegaard,#KEYS
13:I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit. ~ Bill Hicks, #KEYS
14:All the while a silent laughter sings, like wind through an open window saying: be deeper still, stand at Zero. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #KEYS
15:From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. ~ Groucho Marx, #KEYS
16:...Big Bang which was really the roaring laughter of God voluntarily getting lost for the millionth time. ~ Ken Wilber, Up From Eden, p. 328, #KEYS
17:Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations." ~ Red Skelton, #KEYS
18:In the experience of yogis who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing that they burst into laughter. ~ Longchenpa, #KEYS
19:uryam ugrata yuddhalipsattahasya - heroism, impetuosity, the urge towards battle, loud laughter (the attributes of Mahakali)
~ Sri Aurobindo, Glossary of terms,#KEYS
20:There is the truism that has been taught for centuries in many traditions: 'Whoever approval you seek, you are their prisoner'." ~ From "Sacred Laughter of the Sufis,", (2014) Imam Jamal Rahman, #KEYS
21:Ordinary people are friendly with those who are outwardly similar to them. The wise are friendly with those who are inwardly similar to them." ~ Sufi saying, from "Sacred Laughter of the Sufis,", (2014), ed. Imam Jamal Rahman, #KEYS
22:Be sure that you first preach by the way you live. If you do not, people will notice that you say one thing, but live otherwise, and your words will bring only cynical laughter and a derisive shake of the head." ~ Saint Charles Borromeo, #KEYS
23:A march of his greatness are the wheeling stars.
His laughter of beauty breaks out in green trees,
His moments of beauty triumph in a flower; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
24:He tastes the honey of tears and puts off joy
Repenting, and has laughter and has wrath,
And both are a broken music of the soul ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#KEYS
25:Day was a purple pageant and a hymn,
A wave of the laughter of light from morn to eve. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart's Grief and Pain,#KEYS
26:fools! whose pride
Absurd the gods permit a little space
To please their souls with laughter, then replace
In the loud limbo of futilities. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Lines on Ireland,#KEYS
27:I fled Him, down the nights and down the days;
I fled Him, down the arches of the years;
I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways
Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears
I hid from Him, and under running laughter. ~ Francis Thompson, The Hound of Heaven, [T5],#KEYS
28:I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. ~ Robert Fulghum, #KEYS
29:All music is only the sound of His laughter,
All beauty the smile of His passionate bliss;
Our lives are His heart-beats, our rapture the bridal
Of Radha and Krishna, our love is their kiss. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Who,#KEYS
30:There are muffled throbs of laughter's undertones,
The murmur of an occult happiness,
An exultation in the depths of sleep,
A heart of bliss within a world of pain. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
31:His mind is a hunter upon tracks unknown;
Amusing Time with vain discovery,
He deepens with thought the mystery of his fate
And turns to song his laughter and his tears. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#KEYS
32:To heal the evils and mistakes of Space
And change the tragedy of the ignorant world
Into a Divine Comedy of joy
And the laughter and the rapture of God's bliss.
The Mother of God is mother of our souls ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, The Mother of God,#KEYS
33:It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing~they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me. ~ Stephen Fry, #KEYS
34:The occult priest should be capable of instructing anyone in the procedures of emotional engineering. The main methods are the gnostic ones of casting oneself into a frenzied ecstacy, stilling the mind to a point of absolute quiescence, and evoking the laughter of the gods by combining laughter with the contemplation of paradox.
~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Null,#KEYS
35:Kama (Desire)
Delight and laughter walking hand in hand
Go with Me, and I play with grief and pain. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Kama
Kama (Desire)
All energies put into activity—thought, speech, feeling, act—go to constitute Karma. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I, Karma and Heredity,#KEYS
36:Suffering is the food of our strength and torture the bliss of our entrails.
We are pitiless, mighty and glad, the gods fear our laughter inhuman.
Our hearts are heroic and hard; we wear the belt of Orion:
Our will has the edge of the thunderbolt, o ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, The Children of Wotan,#KEYS
37:I have found the atoms from which he built the worlds:
The first tremendous cosmic energy
Missioned shall leap to slay my enemy kin,
Expunge a nation or abolish a race,
Death's silence leave where there was laughter and joy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
38:A crack formed and enlarged, and the whole door gave way-but from the other side; whence poured a howling tumult of ice-cold wind with all the stenches of the bottomless pit, and whence reached a sucking force not of earth or heaven, which, coiling sentiently about the paralysed detective, dragged him through the aperture and down unmeasured spaces filled with whispers and wails, and gusts of mocking laughter. ~ H P Lovecraft, #KEYS
39:One who came love and lover and beloved
Eternal, built himself a wonderous field
And wore the measures of a marvellous dance.
There in its circles and its magic turns
Attracted he arrives, repelled he flees.
In the wild devious promptings of his mind ...
Repenting, and has laughter and wrath,
And both are a broken music of the soul
Which seeks out reconciled its heavenly rhyme.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#KEYS
40:Cheerfulness
ONE AFTERNOON, in a large town in a rainy country, I saw seven or eight vehicles full of children. That morning, they had been taken into the country to play in the fields, but the bad weather had made them return home early in the rain.
And yet they were singing, laughing and waving merrily to the passers-by.
They had kept their cheerfulness in this gloomy weather. If one of them had felt sad, the songs of the others would have cheered him. And for the people hurrying by, who heard the children's laughter, it seemed that the sky had brightened for a moment.
~ The Mother, mcw, 2:189,#KEYS
41:If the magician wishes to put himself into or out of any emotional state, then he should be provided with the techniques to accomplish this. The process requires no justification
- that he wills it is sufficient. One cannot escape emotional experience in a human incarnation, and it is preferable to adopt a master rather than a slave relationship to it. The occult priest should be capable of instructing anyone in the procedures of emotional engineering. The main methods are the gnostic ones of casting oneself into a frenzied ecstacy, stilling the mind to a point of absolute quiescence, and evoking the laughter of the gods by combining laughter with the contemplation of paradox. ~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Null,#KEYS
42:Laughter has the remarkable power of making an object come up close, of drawing it into a zone of crude contact where one can finger it familiarly on all sides, turn it upside down, inside out, peer at it from above and below, break open its external shell, look into its center, doubt it, take it apart, dismember it, lay it bare and expose it, examine it freely and experiment with it. Laughter demolishes fear and piety before an object, before a world, making of it an object of familiar contact and thus clearing the ground for an absolutely free investigation of it. Laughter is a vital factor in laying down that prerequisite for fearlessness without which it would be impossible to approach the world realistically. ~ Mikhail Bakhtin, #KEYS
43:Consider laughter: it is the highest emotion, for it can contain any of the others from ecstacy to grief. It has no opposite. Crying is merely an underdeveloped form of it which cleanses the eyes and summons assistance to infants. Laughter is the only tenable attitude in a universe which is a joke played upon itself. The trick is to see that joke played out even in the neutral and ghastly events which surround one. It is not for us to question the universes apparent lack of taste. Seek the emotion of laughter at what delights and amuses, seek it in whatever is neutral or meaningless, seek it even in what is horrific and revolting. Though it may be forced at first, one can learn to smile inwardly at all things.
~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Null,#KEYS
44:PURANI: There was some effort. Only, you can say that the effort was negligible in proportion to the success.
SRI AUROBINDO: It is not a question of proportion. One may have put in a great deal of effort and yet there could be no result because there was not a complete and total sincerity. On the other hand, when the result comes with little effort it is because the whole being has responded-- and Grace found it possible to act. All the same, effort is a contributory factor. Sometimes one goes on making an effort with no result or even the condition becomes worse. And when one has given it up, one finds suddenly that the result has come. It may be that the effort was keeping up the resistance too. And when the effort is given up, the resistance says, "This fellow has given up effort. What is the use of resisting anymore?" ( Laughter ) ~ Nirodbaran, TALKS WITH SRI AUROBINDO VOLUME 1, 405,#KEYS
45:When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth......
But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.>p>Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. ~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet,#KEYS
46:
Mother, aren't these entities afraid of you?
Ah, my child, terribly afraid! (Laughter) All those which are ill-willed try to hide, and usually do you know what they do? They gather together behind the head of the one who comes (laughter) in order not to be seen. But this is useless, because, just think, I have the capacity to see through. (Laughter) Otherwise - they always do this, instinctively. When they can manage to get in, they try to get in. But then... I intervene with greater force, because that is nasty. These are people who have the instinct to hide, you see. So I pursue them, there inside. With others very little is needed, very little; but there are some - there are such people, you know, they themselves have told me - when they are about to come to me, it is as though there were something which pulled them back, which told them: "No, no, no, it's not worthwhile, why go there? There are so many people for Mother to see, why add one more?" And they draw back, like that, so that they don't come. So I always tell them what it is: 'It would be better not to listen to that, for it's not something with a very good conscience.' Some people cannot bear it. There have been instances like this, of people who were obliged to run away, because they themselves were too attached to their own formations and did not want to get rid of them. Naturally there is only one way, to run away!
There we are! We shall stop now for today.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954,#KEYS
47:Sweet Mother, how can we cut the knot of the ego?
How to cut it? Take a sword and strike it (laughter), when one becomes conscious of it. For usually one is not; we think it quite normal, what happens to us; and in fact it is very normal but we think it quite good also.So to begin with one must have a great clear-sightedness to become aware that one is enclosed in all these knots which hold one in bondage. And then, when one is aware that there's something altogether tightly closed in there - so tightly that one has tried in vain to move it - then one imagines one's will to be a very sharp sword-blade, and with all one's force one strikes a blow on this knot (imaginary, of course, one doesn't take up a sword in fact), and this produces a result. Of course you can do this work from the psychological point of view, discovering all the elements constituting this knot, the whole set of resistances, habits, preferences, of all that holds you narrowly closed in. So when you grow aware of this, you can concentrate and call the divine Force and the Grace and strike a good blow on this formation, these things so closely held, like that, that nothing can separate them. And at that moment you must resolve that you will no longer listen to these things, that you will listen only to the divine Consciousness and will do no other work except the divine work without worrying about personal results, free from all attachment, free from all preference, free from all wish for success, power, satisfaction, vanity, all this.... All this must disappear and you must see only the divine Will incarnated in your will and making you act. Then, in this way, you are cured.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954,#KEYS
48:Sweet Mother, how can we cut the knot of the ego?
How to cut it? Take a sword and strike it (laughter), when one becomes conscious of it. For usually one is not; we think it quite normal, what happens to us; and in fact it is very normal but we think it quite good also.So to begin with one must have a great clear-sightedness to become aware that one is enclosed in all these knots which hold one in bondage. And then, when one is aware that there's something altogether tightly closed in there - so tightly that one has tried in vain to move it - then one imagines one's will to be a very sharp sword-blade, and with all one's force one strikes a blow on this knot (imaginary, of course, one doesn't take up a sword in fact), and this produces a result. Of course you can do this work from the psychological point of view, discovering all the elements constituting this knot, the whole set of resistances, habits, preferences, of all that holds you narrowly closed in. So when you grow aware of this, you can concentrate and call the divine Force and the Grace and strike a good blow on this formation, these things so closely held, like that, that nothing can separate them. And at that moment you must resolve that you will no longer listen to these things, that you will listen only to the divine Consciousness and will do no other work except the divine work without worrying about personal results, free from all attachment, free from all preference, free from all wish for success, power, satisfaction, vanity, all this.... All this must disappear and you must see only the divine Will incarnated in your will and making you act. Then, in this way, you are cured.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954,#KEYS
49:Why are some people intelligent and others not? Why can some people do certain things while others can't?"
It is as though you asked why everybody was not the same! Then it would mean that there would only be one single thing, one single thing indefinitely repeated which would constitute the whole universe.... I don't know, but it seems to me that it wouldn't be worth the trouble having a universe for that, it would be enough to have just one thing!
But the moment one admits the principle of multiplicity and that no two things are alike in the universe, how can you ask why they are not the same! It is just because they are not, because no two things are alike.
Behind that there is something else which one is not conscious of, but which is very simple and very childish. It is this: "Since there is an infinite diversity, since some people are of one kind and others of a lesser kind, well" - here of course one doesn't say this to oneself but it is there, hidden in the depths of the being, in the depths of the ego - "why am I not of the best kind?" There we are. In fact it amounts to complaining that perhaps one is not of the best kind! If you look attentively at questions like this: "Why do some have much and others little?" "Why are some wise and not others? Why are some intelligent and not others?" etc., behind that there is "Why don't I have all that can be had and why am I not all that one can be?..." Naturally, one doesn't say this to oneself, because one would feel ridiculous, but it is there.
There then. Now has anyone anything to add to what we have just said?... Have you all understood quite well? Everything I have said? Nobody wants to say...
(A teacher) Our daily routine seems a little "impossible" to us.
Well, wait a century or two and it will become possible! (Laughter)
You are told that today's impossibility is the possibility of tomorrow - but these are very great tomorrows! ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers, Volume-8, page no. 387-388,#KEYS
50:As far as heaven, as near as thought and hope,
Glimmered the kingdom of a griefless life.
Above him in a new celestial vault
Other than the heavens beheld by mortal eyes,
As on a fretted ceiling of the gods,
An archipelago of laughter and fire,
Swam stars apart in a rippled sea of sky.
Towered spirals, magic rings of vivid hue
And gleaming spheres of strange felicity
Floated through distance like a symbol world.
On the trouble and the toil they could not share,
On the unhappiness they could not aid,
Impervious to life's suffering, struggle, grief,
Untarnished by its anger, gloom and hate,
Unmoved, untouched, looked down great visioned planes
Blissful for ever in their timeless right.
Absorbed in their own beauty and content,
Of their immortal gladness they live sure.
Apart in their self-glory plunged, remote
Burning they swam in a vague lucent haze,
An everlasting refuge of dream-light,
A nebula of the splendours of the gods
Made from the musings of eternity.
Almost unbelievable by human faith,
Hardly they seemed the stuff of things that are.
As through a magic television's glass
Outlined to some magnifying inner eye
They shone like images thrown from a far scene
Too high and glad for mortal lids to seize.
But near and real to the longing heart
And to the body's passionate thought and sense
Are the hidden kingdoms of beatitude.
In some close unattained realm which yet we feel,
Immune from the harsh clutch of Death and Time,
Escaping the search of sorrow and desire,
In bright enchanted safe peripheries
For ever wallowing in bliss they lie.
In dream and trance and muse before our eyes,
Across a subtle vision's inner field,
Wide rapturous landscapes fleeting from the sight,
The figures of the perfect kingdom pass
And behind them leave a shining memory's trail.
Imagined scenes or great eternal worlds,
Dream-caught or sensed, they touch our hearts with their depths;
Unreal-seeming, yet more real than life,
Happier than happiness, truer than things true,
If dreams these were or captured images,
Dream's truth made false earth's vain realities.
In a swift eternal moment fixed there live
Or ever recalled come back to longing eyes
Calm heavens of imperishable Light,
Illumined continents of violet peace,
Oceans and rivers of the mirth of God
And griefless countries under purple suns.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and the Fall of Life,#KEYS
51:O Death, thou lookst on an unfinished world
Assailed by thee and of its road unsure,
Peopled by imperfect minds and ignorant lives,
And sayest God is not and all is vain.
How shall the child already be the man?
Because he is infant, shall he never grow?
Because he is ignorant, shall he never learn?
In a small fragile seed a great tree lurks,
In a tiny gene a thinking being is shut;
A little element in a little sperm,
It grows and is a conqueror and a sage.
Then wilt thou spew out, Death, God's mystic truth,
Deny the occult spiritual miracle?
Still wilt thou say there is no spirit, no God?
A mute material Nature wakes and sees;
She has invented speech, unveiled a will.
Something there waits beyond towards which she strives,
Something surrounds her into which she grows:
To uncover the spirit, to change back into God,
To exceed herself is her transcendent task.
In God concealed the world began to be,
Tardily it travels towards manifest God:
Our imperfection towards perfection toils,
The body is the chrysalis of a soul:
The infinite holds the finite in its arms,
Time travels towards revealed eternity.
A miracle structure of the eternal Mage,
Matter its mystery hides from its own eyes,
A scripture written out in cryptic signs,
An occult document of the All-Wonderful's art.
All here bears witness to his secret might,
In all we feel his presence and his power.
A blaze of his sovereign glory is the sun,
A glory is the gold and glimmering moon,
A glory is his dream of purple sky.
A march of his greatness are the wheeling stars.
His laughter of beauty breaks out in green trees,
His moments of beauty triumph in a flower;
The blue sea's chant, the rivulet's wandering voice
Are murmurs falling from the Eternal's harp.
This world is God fulfilled in outwardness.
His ways challenge our reason and our sense;
By blind brute movements of an ignorant Force,
By means we slight as small, obscure or base,
A greatness founded upon little things,
He has built a world in the unknowing Void.
His forms he has massed from infinitesimal dust;
His marvels are built from insignificant things.
If mind is crippled, life untaught and crude,
If brutal masks are there and evil acts,
They are incidents of his vast and varied plot,
His great and dangerous drama's needed steps;
He makes with these and all his passion-play,
A play and yet no play but the deep scheme
Of a transcendent Wisdom finding ways
To meet her Lord in the shadow and the Night:
Above her is the vigil of the stars;
Watched by a solitary Infinitude
She embodies in dumb Matter the Divine,
In symbol minds and lives the Absolute.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
52:The madman.-
Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place. and cried incessantly: "I seek God! I seek God!" -As many of those who did not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter. Has he got lost? asked one. Did he lose his way like a child? asked another. Or is he hiding? Is he afraid of us? Has he gone on a voyage? emigrated? -Thus they yelled and laughed.
The madman jumped into their midst and pierced them with his eyes. "Whither is God?" he cried; "I will tell you. We have killed him-you and I. All of us are his murderers. But how did we do this? How could we drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What were we doing when we unchained this earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving? Away from all suns? Are we not plunging continually? Backward, sideward. forward. in all directions? be there still any up or down? Are we not straying as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is not night continually closing in on us? Do we not need to light lanterns in the morning? Do we hear nothing as yet of the noise of the gravediggers who are burying God? Do we smell nothing as yet of the divine decomposition? Gods, too. decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
"How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whoever is born after us-for the sake of this deed he will belong to a higher history than all history hitherto."
Here the madman fell silent and looked again at his listeners; and they, too, were silent and stared at him in astonishment. At last he threw his lantern on the ground, and it broke into pieces and went out. "I have come too early," he said then: "my time is not yet. This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light of the stars requires time; deeds, though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars-and yet they have done it themselves... It has been related further that on the same day the madman forced his way into several churches and there struck up his reqttiem aeternam deo. Led out and called to account, he is said always to have replied nothing but: "What after all are these churches now if they are not the tombs and sepulchers of God? ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, trans. Kaufmann,#KEYS
53:(Nirodbaran:) "It was the first week of January 1930.
At about 3 p.m., I reached Dilip Kumar Roy's place. "Oh, you have come! Let us go," he said, and cutting a rose from his terrace-garden he added, "Offer this to the Mother." When we arrived at the Ashram he left me at the present Reading Room saying, "Wait here." My heart was beating nervously as if I were going to face an examination. A stately chair in the middle of the room attracted momentarily my attention. In a short while the Mother came accompanied by Nolini, Amrita and Dilip. She took her seat in the chair, the others stood by her side. I was dazzled by the sight. Was it a ‘visionary gleam’ or a reality? Nothing like it had I seen before. Her fair complexion, set off by a finely coloured sari and a headband, gave me the impression of a goddess such as we see in pictures or in the idols during the Durga Puja festival. She was all smiles and redolent with grace. I suppose this was the Mahalakshmi smile Sri Aurobindo had spoken of in his book The Mother. She bathed me in the cascade of her smile and heart-melting look. I stood before her, shy and speechless, made more so by the presence of the others who were enjoying the silent sweet spectacle. Minutes passed. Then I offered to her hand my rose and did my pranam at her feet which had gold anklets on them. She stooped and blessed me. On standing up, I got again the same enchanting smile like moonbeams from a magic sky. After a time she said to the others, "He is very shy." "[1]
(Amal Kiran:) "Now to come back to all the people, all – the undamned all who were there in the Ashram. Very soon after my coming Dilip Kumar Roy came with Sahana Devi. They came and settled down. And, soon after that, I saw the face of my friend Nirod. It was of course an unforgettable face. (laughter) I think he had come straight from England or via some place in Bengal, but he carried something of the air of England. (laughter) He had passed out as a doctor at Edinburgh. I saw him, we became friends and we have remained friends ever since. But when he came as a doctor he was not given doctoring work here. As far as I remember he was made the head of a timber godown! (laughter) All sorts of strange jobs were being given to people. Look at the first job I got. The Mother once told me, "I would like you to do some work." I said, "All right, I am prepared to do some work." Then she said,"Will you take charge of our stock of furniture?" (laughter)"[2]
(Amal Kiran:) "To return to my friend Nirod – it was after some time that he got the Dispensary. I don't know whether he wanted it, or liked it or not, but he established his reputation as the frowning physician. (laughter) People used to come to him with a cold and he would stand and glare at them, and say, "What? You have a cold!" Poor people, they would simply shiver (laughter) and this had a very salutary effect because they thought that it was better not to fall ill than face the doctor's drastic disapproval of any kind of illness which would give him any botheration. (laughter) But he did his job all right, and every time he frightened off a patient he went to his room and started trying to write poetry (laughter) – because that, he thought, was his most important job. And, whether he succeeded as a doctor or not, as a poet he has eminently succeeded. Sri Aurobindo has really made him a poet.
The doctoring as well as the poetry was a bond between us, because my father had been a doctor and medicine ran in my blood. We used to discuss medical matters sometimes, but more often the problems and pains of poetry."[3] ~ https://wiki.auroville.org.in/wiki/Nirodbaran#KEYS
54:Allow the Lord to Do Everything :::
Now, when I start looking like this (Mother closes her eyes), two things are there at the same time: this smile, this joy, this laughter are there, and such peace! Such full, luminous, total peace, in which there are no more conflicts, no more contradictions. There are no more conflicts. It is one single luminous harmony - and yet everything we call error, suffering, misery, everything is there. It eliminates nothing. It is another way of seeing.
(long silence)
There can be no doubt that if you sincerely want to get out of it, it is not so difficult after all: you have nothing to do, you only have to allow the Lord to do everything. And He does everything. He does everything. It is so wonderful, so wonderful!
He takes anything, even what we call a very ordinary intelligence and he simply teaches you to put this intelligence aside, to rest: "There, be quiet, don't stir, don't bother me, I don't need you." Then a door opens - you don't even feel that you have to open it; it is wide open, you are tkane over to the other side. All that is done by Someone else, not you. And then the other way becomes impossible.
All this... oh, this tremendous labour of hte mind striving to understand, toiling and giving itself headaches!... It is absolutely useless, absolutely useless, no use at all, it merely increases the confusion.
You are faced with a so-called problem: what should you say, what should you do, how should you act? There is nothing to do, nothing, you only have to say to the Lord, "There, You see, it is like that" - that's all. And then you stay very quiet. And then quite spontaneously, without thinking about it, without reflection, without calculation, nothing, nothing, without the slightest effect - you do what has to be done. That is to say, the Lord does it, it is no longer you. He does it. He arranges the circumstances, He arranges the people, He puts the words into your mouth or your pen - He does everything, everything, everything, everything; you have nothing more to do but allow yourself to live blissfully.
I am more and more convinced that people do not really want it.
But clearing the ground is difficult, the work of clearing the ground before hand.
But you don't even need to do it! He does it for you.
But they are constantly breaking in: the old consciousness, the old thoughts....
Yes, they try to come in again, by habit. You only have to say, "Lord, You see, You see, You see, it is like that" - that's all. "Lord, You see, You see this, You see that, You see this fool" - and it is all over immediately. And it changes automatically, my child, without the slightest effort. Simply to be sincere, that is to say, to truly want everything to be right. You are perfectly conscious that you can do nothing about it, that you have no capacity.... But there is always something that wants to do it by itself; that's the trouble, otherwise...
No, you may be full of an excellent goodwill and then you want to do it. That's what complicated everything. Or else you don't have faith, you believe that the Lord will not be able to do it and that you must do it yourself, because He does not know! (Mother laughs.) This, this kind of stupidity is very common. "How can He see things? We live in a world of Falsehood, how can He see Falsehood and see..." But He sees the thing as it is! Exactly!
I am not speaking of people of no intelligence, I am speaking of people who are intelligent and try - there is a kind of conviction, like that, somewhere, even in people who know that we live in a world of Ignorance and Falsehood and that there is a Lord who is All-Truth. They say, "Precisely because He is All-Truth, He does not understand. (Mother laughs.) He does not understand our falsehood, I must deal with it myself." That is very strong, very common.
Ah! we make complications for nothing. ~ The Mother,#KEYS
55:Sweet Mother, how can we make our resolution very firm?
By wanting it to be very firm! (Laughter)
No, this seems like a joke... but it is absolutely true. One does not want it truly. There is always, if you... It is a lack of sincerity. If you look sincerely, you will see that you have decided that it will be like this, and then, beneath there is something which has not decided at all and is waiting for the second of hesitation in order to rush forward. If you are sincere, if you are sincere and get hold of the part which is hiding, waiting, not showing itself, which knows that there will come a second of indecision when it can rush out and make you do the thing you have decided not to do...
[] But if you really want it, nothing in the world can prevent you from doing what you want. It is because one doesn't know how to will it. It is because one is divided in one's will. If you are not divided in your will, I say that nothing, nobody in the world can make you change your will.
But one doesn't know how to will it. In fact one doesn't even want to. These are velleities: "Well, it is like this.... It would be good if it were like that... yes, it would be better if it were like that... yes, it would be preferable if it were like that." But this is not to will. And always there at the back, hidden somewhere in a corner of the brain, is something which is looking on and saying, "Oh, why should I want that? After all one can as well want the opposite." And to try, you see... Not like that, just wait... But one can always find a thousand excuses to do the opposite. And ah, just a tiny little wavering is enough... pftt... the thing swoops down and there it is. But if one wills, if one really knows that this is the thing, and truly wants this, and if one is oneself entirely concentrated in the will, I say that there is nothing in the world that can prevent one from doing it, from doing it or being obliged to do it. It depends on what it is.
One wants. Yes, one wants, like this (gestures). One wants: "Yes, yes, it would be better if it were like that. Yes, it would be finer also, more elegant."... But, eh, eh, after all one is a weak creature, isn't that so? And then one can always put the blame upon something else: "It is the influence coming from outside, it is all kinds of circumstances."
A breath has passed, you see. You don't know... something... a moment of unconsciousness... "Oh, I was not conscious." You are not conscious because you do not accept... And all this because you don't know how to will.
[] To learn how to will is a very important thing. And to will truly, you must unify your being. In fact, to be a being, one must first unify oneself. If one is pulled by absolutely opposite tendencies, if one spends three-fourths of one's life without being conscious of oneself and the reasons why one does things, is one a real being? One does not exist. One is a mass of influences, movements, forces, actions, reactions, but one is not a being. One begins to become a being when one begins to have a will. And one can't have a will unless one is unified.
And when you have a will, you will be able to say, say to the Divine: "I want what You want." But not before that. Because in order to want what the Divine wants, you must have a will, otherwise you can will nothing at all. You would like to. You would like it very much. You would very much like to want what the Divine wants to do. You don't possess a will to give to Him and to put at His service. Something like that, gelatinous, like jelly-fish... there... a mass of good wills - and I am considering the better side of things and forgetting the bad wills - a mass of good wills, half-conscious and fluctuating....
Ah, that's all, my children. That's enough for today. There we are.
Only, put this into practice; just a little of what I have said, not all, eh, just a very little. There.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954,#KEYS
1:Laughter means sympathy. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 2:Cultivate the habit of laughter. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 3:Laughter is no enemy to learning ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 4:Myriad laughter of the ocean waves. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove 5:Laughter is the honey of life. ~ danielle-laporte, @wisdomtrove 6:Laughter is higher than all pain. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 7:His laughter tinkled among the teacups. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 8:Can you restrain your laughter, my friends? ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 9:Laughter is the fireworks of the soul. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove 10:Wherever I am, there is joy and laughter! ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 11:Tape record your parents' laughter ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 12:A day without laughter is a day wasted. ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 13:The only real laughter comes from despair. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 14:I have a great love of animals and laughter. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 15:Laughter is America's most important export. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 16:Real life is in love, laughter, and work. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 17:There is nothing more precious than laughter ~ frida-kahlo, @wisdomtrove 18:When you see what is not real, this laughter comes ~ mooji, @wisdomtrove 19:True life lies in laughter, love and work. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 20:I believe that laughter is our greatest export ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 21:You have as much laughter as you have faith. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 22:Determine to live life with flair and laughter. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 23:As long as I have laughter, I am not without hope ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 24:Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 25:The Gospel is nothing less than laughter and joy. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 26:The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove 27:Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions ~ norman-cousins, @wisdomtrove 28:With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove 29:The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter. ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove 30:May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise. ~ rumi, @wisdomtrove 31:Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 32:There is little success where there is little laughter. ~ andrew-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 33:Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 34:Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 35:There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 36:Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove 37:Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 38:The truth is, if anything, I'm probably addicted to laughter. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 39:The truth is, if anything, I’m probably addicted to laughter. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 40:Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 41:Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 42:Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 43:The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 44:it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 45:Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 46:May God keep fresh the fountain of our laughter and our tears! ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 47:There is very little success where there is very little laughter. ~ andrew-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 48:What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 49:Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 50:Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer. ~ reinhold-niebuhr, @wisdomtrove 51:It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips. ~ fred-allen, @wisdomtrove 52:Laughter attracts joy, releases negativity, and leads to miraculous cures. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 53:Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 54:A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 55:Love, friendship, laughter... Some of the best things in life really are free. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 56:Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 57:Of all the things God created, I am often most grateful He created laughter. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 58:I believe in the healing power of laughter. I believe laughter forces us to breathe. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 59:I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 60:Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 61:Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 62:Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter - to all these music gives voice ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 63:It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 64:Laughter is the most beautiful and beneficial therapy God ever granted humanity. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 65:There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 66:Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 67:Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage. ~ erma-bombeck, @wisdomtrove 68:Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up. ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 69:One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 70:The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 71:There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. ~ erma-bombeck, @wisdomtrove 72:If Words are the Lyrics, and Laughter the Melody, then a Relationship becomes a Symphony. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 73:Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove 74:Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 75:There are two things that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. ~ immanuel-kant, @wisdomtrove 76:What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears? ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 77:Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 78:Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 79:I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 80:The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 81:What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up! ~ hafez, @wisdomtrove 82:All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter. ~ fred-allen, @wisdomtrove 83:No baby shall at any time be quartered in a house where there are no soft laps, no laughter, or no love. ~ erma-bombeck, @wisdomtrove 84:The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove 85:You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 86:If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 87:and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 88:Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 89:From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 90:Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 91:From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 92:Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 93:Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove 94:Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep. ~ norman-cousins, @wisdomtrove 95:I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world's greatest horseplayer. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 96:There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 97:Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 98:The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 99:Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 100:Laughter opens your heart and soothes your soul. No one should ever take life so seriously that they forget to laugh at themselves. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 101:Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing. ~ frida-kahlo, @wisdomtrove 102:The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real prayer, gratitude. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 103:Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter. ~ longchenpa, @wisdomtrove 104:There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time! ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 105:Laughter not only makes the journey endurable and even enjoyable, it also helps keep us healthy... . Be like a child: learn to laugh more! ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 106:my 6 foot goddess makes me laugh the laughter of the mutilated who still need love... she has saved me from everything that is not here ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 107:Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 108:Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 109:Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations. ~ norman-cousins, @wisdomtrove 110:And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove 111:we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 112:Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 113:But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 114:He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 115:There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as well do all we can to save the latter. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 116: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, @wisdomtrove 117:If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 118:You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 119:As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 120:Peace has to dance and silence has to sing. And unless your innermost realization becomes a laughter, something is still lacking. Something still has to be done. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 121:The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him. ~ george-bernard-shaw, @wisdomtrove 122:In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove 123:To become balanced, meditate on the heart center in the center of the chest. There you will experience happiness, refinement, sensitivity, beauty, laughter. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 124:In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing they burst into laughter ~ longchenpa, @wisdomtrove 125:To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove 126:Day full-blown and splendid-day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter, The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness. ~ walt-whitman, @wisdomtrove 127:Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 128:Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease. ~ norman-cousins, @wisdomtrove 129:There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 130:Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant. ~ washington-irving, @wisdomtrove 131:A wise person laughs and smiles through the eyes. . . . The smile and laughter through the eyes influence people tremendously. No energy leaks if you smile through the eyes. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 132:Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable. ~ ambrose-bierce, @wisdomtrove 133:Laughter lifts us over high ridges and lights up dark valleys in a way that makes life so much easier. It is a priceless gem, a gift of release and healing direct from Heaven. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 134:True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 135:It was inevitable, of course, but somehow it didn't seem right to Alex that they would never remember the sound of Carly's laughter, or know how deeply she'd once loved them. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 136:I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with "expressing" myself with obscure creative impressions. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 137:People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 138:You have to free yourself from your mental conditioning through association with the holy, through doing good works, through meditating, through laughter, through love and through solitude. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 139:It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 140:What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men; and even to some which are not innocent. ~ reinhold-niebuhr, @wisdomtrove 141:It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 142:We know, for instance, of "The Book of the Wars of the Lord." It is mentioned in the text [Numbers 21:14]. There was a book: Where is it? One day you will dig and you will maybe find it. [Laughter] ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 143:I think laughter between people is a holy form of connection, of communion. It's the way you and I look at each other and without words, say, I get exactly what you're saying. And so, it's important to me. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 144:Laughter brightens the eye, increases the perspiration, expands the chest, forces the poisoned air from the least-used cells, and tends to restore that exquisite poise or balance which we call health. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 145:I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 146:Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else, but when it happens to you, why it seems to lose some of its Humor, and if it keeps on happening, why the entire laughter kinder Fades out of it. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 147:Laughter, song, and dance create emotional and spiritual connection; they remind us of the one thing that truly matters when we are searching for comfort, celebration, inspiration, or healing: We are not alone. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 148:All one has to do to get one's stuff in the Congressional Record is to find a stenographer that can stay awake long enough to take it down. Then you mark in the & 149:Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 150:And the secret to daring to be really alive is to realize that life is like a movie, so you are fundamentally safe. In the movie there’s laughter and tears, but everything is always okay . . . even during the scary parts. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 151:Eating, drinking. sleeping, pro-creating. A little laughter, a lot of tears. Is this all there is to life? Don't die like a worm on the surface of the planet. WAKE UP and be all that you can be, you are so much more than that. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 152:They would spend a lot of their time simply walking around in the woods or in the cities, or they would come over to his house and he would teach them with a great deal of humor and laughter about the nature of existence. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 153:The laughter that happens when people are truth-telling and showing up and being real - I call that "knowing laughter." That's what happens between people when we recognize the absurdity of the belief that we're alone in anything. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 154:Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 155:What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what's it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 156:If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 157:In my work I try to reach and speak to that innocence, showing it the fun and joy of living; showing it that laughter is healthy; showing it that the human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 158:An unholy church! It is useless to the world, and of no esteem among men. It is an abomination, hells laughter, heavens abhorrence. The worst evils which have ever come upon the world have been brought upon her by an unholy church. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 159:Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 160:Relaxation and Recreation The most relaxing recreating forces are a healthy religion, sleep, music, and laughter. Have faith in God—learn to sleep well— Love good music—see the funny side of life— And health and happiness will be yours. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 161:What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the laughter of children, to the rainbow, and to the sorrow of man. Under every stone and leaf, that which is eternal exists. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 162:I was talking to a Zen master the other day and he said, "You shall be my disciple."I looked at him and said, "Who was Buddha's teacher?" He looked at me in a very odd way for a moment and then he burst into laughter and handed me a piece of clover. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 163:At one time I say to myself: "Surely not! The little prince shuts his flower under her glass globe every night, and he watches over his sheep very carefully . . ." Then I am happy. And there is sweetness in the laughter of all the stars. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove 164:The magic is as wide as a smile and as narrow as a wink, loud as laughter and quiet as a tear, tall as a tale and deep as emotion. So strong, it can lift the spirit. So gentle, it can touch the heart. It is the magic that begins the happily ever after. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 165:Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers, through the mountain-gates, and all that land would be filled with new song and new laughter. But this pleasant legend did not much affect their daily business. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 166:The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 167:You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 168:A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 169:I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day to day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 170:You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 171:I remember thinking how often we look, but never see ... we listen, but never hear ... we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive. ~ erma-bombeck, @wisdomtrove 172:While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit. ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 173:I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book. From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it. Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 174:The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy. You will have as much joy and laughter in life as you have faith in God. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 175:The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alivewith chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 176:It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty of existence, the struggles, the miseries, the laughter, the tears - and yet keep your mind very simple; and you can have a simple mind only when you know how to love. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 177:But if in your fear you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove 178:My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet as a chime of gold, And his eyes are lit with laughter. He is jubilant as a flag unfurled - Oh, a girl, she'd not forget him. My own dear love, he is all my world - And I wish I'd never met him. ~ dorothy-parker, @wisdomtrove 179:There are times for all of us when all the laughter seems to be gone, but we should not permit these periods to last too long. When we've lost our sense of humor, there isn't very much left. We become ridiculous. We must then go to war against the whole world, and that's a war we cannot win. ~ earl-nightingale, @wisdomtrove 180:Nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 181:Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don't you think? ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove 182:Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked. & 183:Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 184:And if there is anybody out there who is crazy enough to want to become a writer, I'd say go ahead, spit in the eye of the sun, hit those keys, it's the best madness going, the centuries need help, the species cry for light and gamble and laughter. Give it to them. There are enough words for all of us. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 185:To the Self the world is but a colourful show, which he enjoys as long as it lasts and forgets when it is over. Whatever happens on the stage makes him shudder in terror or roll with laughter, yet all the time he is aware that it is but a show. Without desire or fear he enjoys it, as it happens. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 186:Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 187:Describing laughter: The sound is produced by a deep inspiration followed by short, interrupted, spasmodic contractions of the chest, and especially the diaphragm... the mouth is open more or less widely, with the corners drawn much backwards, as well as a little upwards; and the upper lip is somewhat raised. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 188:Come to me. Are you lost? I can see another way from where I live. The heart can see a path that's out of sight to the head-a path you'll surely overlook, left alone on your lofty perch up there, too distracted by your world to see the real world where I live. I live on the level of laughter, tears, and-yes-prayer. ~ robert-h-schuller, @wisdomtrove 189:The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive. Life proves that truth every hour, every day. And life continues to surprise. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 190:Jokes can be noble. 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 up to do afterward — and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 191:The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe. 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. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 192:Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter - to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 193:He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from all cares - he is sleep! When his blood bursts from the grape and flows across tables laid in his honor to fuse with our blood, he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadows of ivy-cool sleep. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 194:Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye. ~ dorothy-parker, @wisdomtrove 195:Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it's like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn't exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day's work and always brings a smile to your face. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 196:Sometimes I spend all day trying to count the leaves on a single tree... Of course I have to give up, but by then I'm half crazy with the wonder of it& 197:The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Laughter is our reaction to immediate incongruities and those which do not affect us essentially. Faith is the only possible response to the ultimate incongruities of existence, which threaten the very meaning of our life. ~ reinhold-niebuhr, @wisdomtrove 198:I did an event in Washington, and it was like we lifted a sea.Immediately after [9/11], there was a stunned shock - kind of this feeling of "What do we do now?" I started performing, and there was a catharsis in the laughing. People started to be able to laugh again. Laughter can be many things - sometimes a medicine, sometimes a weapon, depending on. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 199:There is nothing more distressing ... than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. Such laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes not merely the vacant mind, but the heart in which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 200:Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 201:From the girl who sat before me now... surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has popped into the world with the coming of spring. Her eyes moved like an independent organism with joy, laughter, anger, amazement, and despair. I hadn't seen a face so vivid and expressive in ages, and I enjoyed watching it live and move. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 202:And the small ripple spilt upon the beach Scarcely o'erpass'd the cream of your champagne, When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers reach, That spring-dew of the spirit! the heart's rain! Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please,‚Äîthe more because they preach in vain,‚Äî Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 203:Take one cup of love, two cups of loyalty, three cups of forgiveness, four quarts of faith and one barrel of laughter. Take love and loyalty and mix them thoroughly with faith; blend with tenderness, kindness and understanding. Add friendship and hope. Sprinkle abundantly with laughter. Bake it with sunshine. Wrap it regularly with lots of hugs. Serve generous helpings daily. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 204:A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man; help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces, let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day. Bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 205:I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 206:The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods, no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine. ~ anais-nin, @wisdomtrove 207:He who knows his soul knows this truth: I am beyond everything finite; I I now see that the Spirit, alone in a space with Its ever-new joy, has expressed Itself as the vast body of nature. I am the stars, I am the waves, I am the Life of all, I am the laughter within all hearts, I am the smile on the faces of the flowers and in each soul. I am the Wisdom and Power that sustain all creation. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 208:Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?" A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 209:It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It was a day easily associated with those abstract truths and purities that dissolve in the sunshine or fade out in mocking laughter by the light of the moon. The trees and clouds were carved in classical severity; the sounds of the countryside had harmonized to a monotone, metallic as a trumpet, breathless as the Grecian urn. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 210:Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return& 211:She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound for the Champs Elysees, strapped now into a long truck and simply shaking with laughter - like a lovely person in an undignified position yet confident none the less of being lovely. Looking at it with fascination, Rosemary identified herself with it, and laughed cheerfully with it, and everything all at once seemed gorgeous. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 212:If there's a feeling you have, other people have it. If there's something weird about your life, other people have lived it. If there's something kooky about your body, other people have that, too. We're not alone. There's some kind of tremendous relief in that and I think it can only be expressed in belly laughter. This tremendous relief that happens the millisecond we realize, it's not just me. That's what good laughter is about. It's about knowing that you're not alone. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 213:We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker's, and even with laughter. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. The guilt is washed out not by time but by repentance and the blood of Christ: if we have repented these early sins we should remember the price of our forgiveness and be humble. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 214: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. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 215:We keep a lot of humor and laughter in the home. A lot of times these days, people let the stress of life take the joy from the home. When you can laugh and you can have joy, that's very healthy. Victoria is easy going. She's very spontaneous and fun. I can hear her laughter all through the house. It sets the tone for the house. I like someone who can laugh. The second thing is respect. We just do our best. We don't always agree with each other but we make the decision that we want to treat each other with respect. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 216:She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt or fear, she had practiced denying them in herself. And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials... .She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 217:Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really seem to feel what I do not feel, to understand what I do not understand, to have powers which I cannot have. Music seems to me to act like yawning or laughter; I have no desire to sleep, but I yawn when I see others yawn; with no reason to laugh, I laugh when I hear others laugh. And music transports me immediately into the condition of soul in which he who wrote the music found himself at that time. ~The Kreutzer Sonata ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 218:In the eulogy by the graveside, I told everyone how my sister and I used to sing to each other on our birthday. I told them that, when I thought of my sister, I could still hear her laughter, sense her optimism, and feel her faith. I told them that my sister was the kindest person I;ve ever known, and that the world was a sadder place without her in it. And finally, I told them to remember my sister with a smile, like I did, for even though she was being buried near my parents, the best parts of her would always stay alive, deep within our hearts. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 219:Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk alone among those hills or in the woods or along the long, white, bleached sands, in that solitude you would know what meditation is. The ecstasy of solitude comes when you are not frightened to be alone no longer belonging to the world or attached to anything. Then, like that dawn that came up this morning, it comes silently, and makes a golden path in the very stillness, which was at the beginning, which is now, and which will be always there. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 220:Around us, life bursts with miracles& 221:TEN GUIDEPOSTS FOR WHOLEHEARTED LIVING 1. Cultivating authenticity: letting go of what people think 2. Cultivating self-compassion: letting go of perfectionism 3. Cultivating a resilient spirit: letting go of numbing and powerlessness 4. Cultivating gratitude and joy: letting go of scarcity and fear of the dark 5. Cultivating intuition and trusting faith: letting go of the need for certainty 6. Cultivating creativity: letting go of comparison 7. Cultivating play and rest: letting go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as self-worth 8. Cultivating calm and stillness: letting go of anxiety as a lifestyle 9. Cultivating meaningful work: letting go of self-doubt and supposed to 10. Cultivating laughter, song, and dance: letting go of being cool and always in control ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Laughter is a rescue. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
2:Laughter always forgives. ~ Martin Amis, #NFDB
3:Laughter scares off lust. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
4:Laughter is the best medicine ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
5:Laughter means sympathy. ~ Thomas Carlyle, #NFDB
6:On sorrow floats laughter. ~ G nter Grass, #NFDB
7:On sorrow floats laughter. ~ Gunter Grass, #NFDB
8:Spontaneous laughter induces. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
9:I like laughter around me. ~ Mireille Enos, #NFDB
10:Laughter comes from living. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
11:Laughter drives shouting away. ~ Indra Devi, #NFDB
12:Laughter is eternity if joy is real. ~ Bono, #NFDB
13:Laughter is inner jogging. ~ Norman Cousins, #NFDB
14:Laughter is like crying. ~ Lisa Renee Jones, #NFDB
15:Laughter is a gift for lovers. ~ Harley King, #NFDB
16:Laughter is a rescue. p.204 ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
17:Nobody ever died of laughter. ~ Max Beerbohm, #NFDB
18:Cultivate the habit of laughter. ~ Og Mandino, #NFDB
19:Laughter is carbonated holiness. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
20:Laughter is no enemy to learning ~ Walt Disney, #NFDB
21:Our flesh is a gift of laughter. ~ Harley King, #NFDB
22:"Zen is laughter, laughter Zen." ~ Zen proverb, #NFDB
23:I think laughter is a sacred act. ~ Tom Shadyac, #NFDB
24:Laughter is an instant vacation. ~ Milton Berle, #NFDB
25:Laughter is poison to fear. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
26:Myriad laughter of the ocean waves. ~ Aeschylus, #NFDB
27:Spontaneous laughter's unstoppable. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
28:aphrodite's laughter shakes the sky ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB
29:Laughter is a force for democracy. ~ John Cleese, #NFDB
30:laughter is a mark of wanderers ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
31:Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul. ~ Thomas Mann, #NFDB
32:Laughter was too close to tears. ~ Shelley Noble, #NFDB
33:Laughter is threatening to tyrants. ~ Alan Watts, #NFDB
34:Misery is okay; laughter is a disturbance. ~ Osho, #NFDB
35:Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies. ~ Homer, #NFDB
36:Anger kills both laughter and joy; ~ Thiruvalluvar, #NFDB
37:Laughter is by definition healthy. ~ Doris Lessing, #NFDB
38:Laughter is higher than all pain. ~ Elbert Hubbard, #NFDB
39:"Laughter is threatening to tyrants." ~ Alan Watts, #NFDB
40:His laughter tinkled among the teacups. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
41:Laughter is an orgasm of the mind. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
42:Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
43:Laughter is therapy-an instant vacation. ~ Bob Hope, #NFDB
44:Can you restrain your laughter, my friends? ~ Horace, #NFDB
45:I forget sometimes what laughter can do. ~ Ken Kesey, #NFDB
46:Laughter is more serious than tears. ~ Toni Morrison, #NFDB
47:Laughter is the language of the soul. ~ Pablo Neruda, #NFDB
48:The fake laughter is an implied message. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
49:What is life without laughter? ~ Trenton Lee Stewart, #NFDB
50:It seems that laughter needs an echo. ~ Henri Bergson, #NFDB
51:Laughter is the best creative medicine. ~ John Cleese, #NFDB
52:Nothing is more silly than silly laughter. ~ Catullus, #NFDB
53:Grace has a grand laughter in it. ~ Marilynne Robinson, #NFDB
54:laughter is good for the digestion. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
55:Laughter survives... it has to survive. ~ George Lopez, #NFDB
56:The highest state is laughter. ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, #NFDB
57:Wherever I am, there is joy and laughter! ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
58:Alice gave a little scream of laughter. ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
59:Evil and laughter cannot co-exist. ~ Alice Thomas Ellis, #NFDB
60:Laughter is the highest form of prayer. ~ Martha N Beck, #NFDB
61:Tape record your parents' laughter ~ H Jackson Brown Jr, #NFDB
62:I like to say it was born out of laughter. ~ Byron Katie, #NFDB
63:In comedy laughter settles all arguments. ~ Robert McKee, #NFDB
64:I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter. ~ Peter Ustinov, #NFDB
65:Laughter brings out the child in all of us. ~ Bill Cosby, #NFDB
66:Laughter is deliverance, bubbly salvation. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
67:Laughter is the best form of contraception. ~ Thomas Amo, #NFDB
68:A day without laughter is a day wasted. ~ Charlie Chaplin, #NFDB
69:Her laughter was like sweet deadly venom. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
70:Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter. ~ Max Beerbohm, #NFDB
71:Isn't it only laughter we can stay human? ~ James Clavell, #NFDB
72:It is in my soul to spread love and laughter. ~ Kim Coles, #NFDB
73:Laughter is grace in its gaseous form. ~ Cathleen Falsani, #NFDB
74:Laughter is the key that grace has arrived. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
75:Laughter relaxes. And relaxation is spiritual. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
76:Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for. ~ Henrik Ibsen, #NFDB
77:Shared laughter creates a bond of friendship. ~ Lee Grant, #NFDB
78:The only real laughter comes from despair. ~ Groucho Marx, #NFDB
79:A day without laughter is a day wasted. ~ Nicolas Chamfort, #NFDB
80:Because sometimes, laughter is what you need ~ Cat Patrick, #NFDB
81:I have a great love of animals and laughter. ~ Walt Disney, #NFDB
82:Laughter can bring a new perspective. ~ Christopher Durang, #NFDB
83:Laughter is America's most important export. ~ Walt Disney, #NFDB
84:Laughter is the best medicine in the world. ~ Milton Berle, #NFDB
85:Life, a beauty chased by tragic laughter. ~ John Masefield, #NFDB
86:My little nymph's laughter filled my soul. ~ Katie McGarry, #NFDB
87:Real life is in love, laughter, and work. ~ Elbert Hubbard, #NFDB
88:There is nothing more precious than laughter ~ Frida Kahlo, #NFDB
89:When you see what is not real, this laughter comes ~ Mooji, #NFDB
90:All laughter leads to the same conclusion. ~ Santosh Kalwar, #NFDB
91:I think laughter may be a form of courage. ~ Linda Ellerbee, #NFDB
92:Laughter not time destroyed my voice ~ William Butler Yeats, #NFDB
93:Laughter through tears: it’s the Southern way. ~ Peggy Webb, #NFDB
94:Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter. ~ Fran oise Sagan, #NFDB
95:nothing in life is sacred except laughter. ~ Twinkle Khanna, #NFDB
96:True life lies in laughter, love and work. ~ Elbert Hubbard, #NFDB
97:I believe that laughter is our greatest export ~ Walt Disney, #NFDB
98:I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter. ~ Dawn Powell, #NFDB
99:Laughter is the Wild Body's song of triumph. ~ Wyndham Lewis, #NFDB
100:Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died. ~ Peter Ustinov, #NFDB
101:She laughed like she'd just invented laughter. ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB
102:That's the quickest way to my heart: Laughter. ~ Ryan Lochte, #NFDB
103:The only real laughter comes from despair.
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104:You have as much laughter as you have faith. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
105:Children’s laughter is the music of heaven. ~ Linda Goodnight, #NFDB
106:Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
107:How sad it would be, should laughter disappear. ~ Yana Toboso, #NFDB
108:Laughter destroys any divisions between people. ~ John Cleese, #NFDB
109:Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
110:Laughter is the language of the heart ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, #NFDB
111:Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion. ~ Dolly Parton, #NFDB
112:Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods. ~ Homer, #NFDB
113:Childrens' laughter is like medicine to sadness. ~ Tyler Perry, #NFDB
114:Determine to live life with flair and laughter. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
115:Fire's own laughter was a balm to her heart. ~ Kristin Cashore, #NFDB
116:Laughter is an important part of healthy living. ~ Matthew Moy, #NFDB
117:Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh. ~ Tom Lehrer, #NFDB
118:Laughter is the antidote to existential pain ~ S Spencer Baker, #NFDB
119:One must take what comes, with laughter. ~ Olivia de Havilland, #NFDB
120:wherever there's laughter, there is heaven ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
121:Without the laughter, we'd all be dying too. ~ Chelsea Handler, #NFDB
122:Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
123:And still, laughter is akin to weeping. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater, #NFDB
124:As long as I have laughter, I am not without hope ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
125:Laughter is a good way to hide pain"- Leo Valdez ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
126:Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. ~ Karl Barth, #NFDB
127:Our laughter is always the laughter of a group. ~ Henri Bergson, #NFDB
128:She laughed like she’d just invented laughter. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
129:There is thin line between smile and laughter. ~ Santosh Kalwar, #NFDB
130:Wherever there's laughter, there is heaven. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
131:You win the lasting laurels with your laughter. ~ Joni Mitchell, #NFDB
132:Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
133:A long, loud, and canorous peal of laughter. ~ Thomas de Quincey, #NFDB
134:Cry later, but for now, let's enjoy the laughter. ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
135:God howls with laughter at earthly plans, you know? ~ Rick Moody, #NFDB
136:Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
137:laughter helps things slide into the thinking. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
138:Life is laughter amid a rosary of death. ~ Federico Garcia Lorca, #NFDB
139:She laughed like she'd just invented laughter. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
140:Treading blood from lungs that had loved laughter. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
141:Anger was like laughter; it was better let free. ~ Kate Kingsbury, #NFDB
142:Cold, harsh laughter, like knives being sharpened. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
143:Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS. ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
144:Her laughter warmed me in ways a jacket couldn't. ~ Katie McGarry, #NFDB
145:Her laughter was an upbeat song set to a minor key. ~ Ken Scholes, #NFDB
146:Laughter allows us to get past the fear of death. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
147:Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
148:Laughter is just a slowed down scream of terror. ~ Thomas M Disch, #NFDB
149:Let there be more joy and laughter in your living. ~ Eileen Caddy, #NFDB
150:One does not kill by anger but by laughter. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
151:Our present tears here, not our present laughter ~ Robert Herrick, #NFDB
152:The best bubbly I ever tasted was laughter. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
153:The Gospel is nothing less than laughter and joy. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
154:There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter. ~ Henri Bergson, #NFDB
155:The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
156:The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise. ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB
157:Laughter is life-giving. It makes you breathe. ~ Kristin Chenoweth, #NFDB
158:Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. ~ Wavy Gravy, #NFDB
159:Laughter... the most civilized music in the world. ~ Peter Ustinov, #NFDB
160:Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
161:their lives full of canned, mutilated laughter. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
162:The secret of life lies in laughter and humility. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
163:'All music is only the sound of His laughter......' ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
164:Rich people can afford anything, even better laughter. ~ Barry Lyga, #NFDB
165:Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me. ~ Samuel Beckett, #NFDB
166:The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ~ E E Cummings, #NFDB
167:The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ~ e e cummings, #NFDB
168:The music and laughter eat away at your thoughts. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
169:The room rang full of her artificial laughter. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
170:With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come ~ Kareem Abdul Jabbar, #NFDB
171:English is my second language. Laughter is my first. ~ Paul Krassner, #NFDB
172:I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent. ~ Al Franken, #NFDB
173:Laughter can shake you from the delirium of grief ~ Lidia Yuknavitch, #NFDB
174:Laughter heals, gives solace, and is life enhancing. ~ Liz Carpenter, #NFDB
175:Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions ~ Norman Cousins, #NFDB
176:... they made a lot of laughter out of nothing. ~ Zora Neale Hurston, #NFDB
177:What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~ Charlie Chaplin, #NFDB
178:With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
179:A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. ~ Suzy Kassem, #NFDB
180:Friendships founded on laughter are always fortuitous. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
181:Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
182:Laughter is the only sane response to pathological lying. ~ Eric Idle, #NFDB
183:The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter. ~ Oliver Goldsmith, #NFDB
184:Wish I could take your tears and replace them with laughter. ~ Lowkey, #NFDB
185:Your face is lined with beauty from laughter and tears ~ Lynsay Sands, #NFDB
186:He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof. ~ Theodor Adorno, #NFDB
187:I have always liked shows that have laughter in them. ~ David Walliams, #NFDB
188:Just thinking of your laughter gives me courage. . . ~ Rosamund Lupton, #NFDB
189:Laughter is like the human body wagging its tail. ~ Anne Wilson Schaef, #NFDB
190:Laughter is the best way To make somebody's heart beat ~ Robert Holden, #NFDB
191:Laughter is the best way to release tensions and fears. ~ Dick Gregory, #NFDB
192:Laughter is the only medicine, without side effects. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
193:Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature. ~ Agnes Repplier, #NFDB
194:Sometimes laughter is the only way to process tough times ~ Todd Burpo, #NFDB
195:And what is laughter anyway? Changing the angle of vision. ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB
196:Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
197:It is good to laugh.
Laughter is spiritual relaxation. ~ Abdu l Bah,#NFDB
198:Just thinking of your laughter gives me courage. . . ~ Rosamund Lupton, #NFDB
199:The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ~ Nicolas Chamfort, #NFDB
200:Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter. ~ Laurence J Peter, #NFDB
201:Caspian burst into gales of laughter. “I suppose you were ~ Ruth Rendell, #NFDB
202:Laughter is a virus that infects you with humanity. ~ Luis Alberto Urrea, #NFDB
203:Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. ~ Margaret Mead, #NFDB
204:May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
205:Their laughter rose to the ceiling and shook hands there. ~ John Crowley, #NFDB
206:within the room, and then gales of laughter. The nacre ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
207:All things are cause for either laughter or weeping. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
208:But hey—what’s life (and relationships) without laughter? ~ Preeti Shenoy, #NFDB
209:If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
210:I have come to really love the sound of nervous laughter. ~ Preet Bharara, #NFDB
211:Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
212:Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
213:Ska,” I said, swerving toward delirious laughter. “Great. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
214:There is little success where there is little laughter. ~ Andrew Carnegie, #NFDB
215:And laughter, once again laughter. Heaven on earth, no? ~ Richard C Morais, #NFDB
216:Hysteria means the same thing with either laughter or tears. ~ Tim Sandlin, #NFDB
217:Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory. ~ Alfred Jarry, #NFDB
218:Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be. ~ Whitney Houston, #NFDB
219:My laughter won't last forever—but neither will my tears. ~ Yasmin Mogahed, #NFDB
220:Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter. ~ Alan Watts, #NFDB
221:Sex and laughter. The heart and lungs of a relationship. ~ Rosamund Lupton, #NFDB
222:The chuckle is a perfectly acceptable form of laughter. ~ Timothy Hallinan, #NFDB
223:The elixir of life is a bubbling stream of laughter. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
224:The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter. ~ Horace, #NFDB
225:The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it's understood. ~ Byron Katie, #NFDB
226:There is laughter because there is nothing to laugh at. ~ Theodor W Adorno, #NFDB
227:Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter. ~ Kate Millett, #NFDB
228:Inappropriate laughter is the universal first sign of madness. ~ David Wong, #NFDB
229:I think laughter comes because things are hardly working. ~ Jean Luc Godard, #NFDB
230:Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche. ~ Stephen Colbert, #NFDB
231:Laughter is good for the soul and all your interior works. ~ Paulette Jiles, #NFDB
232:Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. ~ Charlie Chaplin, #NFDB
233:Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful. ~ Osho, #NFDB
234:The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow. ~ W H Auden, #NFDB
235:There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
236:In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
237:There are muffled throbs of laughter's undertones, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, #NFDB
238:All good sex comes with a side order of inappropriate laughter. ~ Lily Morton, #NFDB
239:Don't argue. Never deign to deny. Meet insults with laughter. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
240:In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
241:Life in These United States. Laughter Is the Best Medicine. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
242:loud laughter mixed with the chirp of crickets. A moth hit ~ Angela M Sanders, #NFDB
243:Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
244:the best kind of laughter is laughter born of a shared memory. ~ Mindy Kaling, #NFDB
245:Drama is hard for me. Crying is much harder for me than laughter. ~ Emma Stone, #NFDB
246:His laughter... sparkled like a splash of water in sunlight. ~ Joseph Lelyveld, #NFDB
247:Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face. ~ Malcolm De Chazal, #NFDB
248:Laughter is the real religion. Everything else is just metaphysics. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
249:The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown. ~ Angela Carter, #NFDB
250:The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it. ~ Lenny Bruce, #NFDB
251:The truth is, if anything, I'm probably addicted to laughter. ~ Robin Williams, #NFDB
252:Directly after copulation, the devil's laughter is heard. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
253:Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air. ~ Pat Conroy, #NFDB
254:I choose one thing: always to have the laughter on my side. ~ S ren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
255:It was the laughter of birthdays, of money found in an old pocket. ~ Ian Rankin, #NFDB
256:Laughter and tears may not persuade, but they cannot be refuted. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
257:Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man ~ Thomas Carlyle, #NFDB
258:Laughter nibbled at my lips like tiny fish in warm water. ~ Anne Rivers Siddons, #NFDB
259:Life is sad enough, Magir. Laughter is a thing to be treasured. ~ David Gemmell, #NFDB
260:Oh, that did me good! Laughter is wonderful for the digestion. ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
261:Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
262:Her house is the nest where she hides the joy, laughter, sorrows, and ~ Lisa See, #NFDB
263:I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
264:Just a second of her laughter can get me through the darkest day. ~ Megan Bostic, #NFDB
265:Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters. ~ Allen Klein, #NFDB
266:Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin. ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #NFDB
267:Laughter isn't a sign of insanity but a shield against it. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
268:Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away. ~ Wyndham Lewis, #NFDB
269:Laughter is what spills over the edge of an inspired life. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, #NFDB
270:Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass. ~ Jackson Browne, #NFDB
271:Only laughter can be gotten away with for free.
~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Null,#NFDB
272:They say laughter is the best medicine. They lie. Its brownies. ~ Lani Lynn Vale, #NFDB
273:Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter. ~ Mel Gussow, #NFDB
274:Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter. ~ Horace, #NFDB
275:And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after. ~ Gail Carson Levine, #NFDB
276:But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh. ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
277:But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia. ~ Max Beerbohm, #NFDB
278:Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh? ~ Leigh Hunt, #NFDB
279:Her hoarse laughter could make anyone worry about the future. ~ Jussi Adler Olsen, #NFDB
280:Her smile was like laughter to me— it bubbled in like champagne. ~ Atticus Poetry, #NFDB
281:I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
282:I've been married forty-five years. I think laughter is the secret. ~ Bob Newhart, #NFDB
283:laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
284:Laughter is our soul's way of saying, "I surrender to being human. ~ Holley Gerth, #NFDB
285:Laughter lightens my heart and therefore heals my soul as well. ~ Sharon E Rainey, #NFDB
286:The contagious sound of women’s laughter filled the warm, tidy burrow. ~ P C Cast, #NFDB
287:Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
288:Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
289:in this life, living, there is no dignity except perhaps in laughter. ~ Paul Scott, #NFDB
290:laughter. "Glad to find you so merry, my girls," said a cheery ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
291:Laughter is a medicine you've got to use to drive away blues. ~ Goswami Kriyananda, #NFDB
292:Laughter separates us from despair and gives us a chance at love. ~ Craig Ferguson, #NFDB
293:The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
294:Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
295:day without laughter or a day without love was a day without life. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
296:I feel like there's a certain kind of laughter missing in the world. ~ Peter Hedges, #NFDB
297:In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration. ~ Edie Falco, #NFDB
298:I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it? ~ Edward St Aubyn, #NFDB
299:It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
300:it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
301:Laughter. An essential ingredient for survival. And we laughed a lot. ~ Patti Smith, #NFDB
302:Laughter is the only sound left I can make that people will understand. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
303:Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever. ~ Walt Disney, #NFDB
304:Laughter separates us from despair, and gives us a chance at love. ~ Craig Ferguson, #NFDB
305:Life is about laughter; it is about believing what one does not see. ~ Jeff Wheeler, #NFDB
306:love trumps fear, laughter trumps tears, and abundance trumps loss. And ~ Pam Grout, #NFDB
307:There is very little success where there is very little laughter. ~ Andrew Carnegie, #NFDB
308:What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
309:Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
310:Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
311:Like a kettle boiling over, the room foamed with laughter. ~ Heather Vogel Frederick, #NFDB
312:The treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter and love. ~ Mark Helprin, #NFDB
313:Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
314:Within tears, find hidden laughter
Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one. ~ Rumi,#NFDB
315:You can't fake laughter & that's how come so many folk die of it. ~ Aziza Barnes, #NFDB
316:a day without laughter or a day without love was a day without life. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
317:Comedy holds the greatest risk for an actor, and laughter is the reward. ~ Cary Grant, #NFDB
318:Connect emotionally through facial expressions, laughter, and tears. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
319:Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. ~ Joan Lunden, #NFDB
320:Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. ~ Max Eastman, #NFDB
321:The beasts tossed their heads and answered with evil horsey laughter. ~ Loretta Chase, #NFDB
322:We all enter this world crying. Laughter is something we have to learn ~ Gina Barreca, #NFDB
323:Comedy can be very freeing. Laughter truly is the best medicine. ~ Christina Applegate, #NFDB
324:cried Meg, and the rehearsal ended in a general burst of laughter. ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
325:I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation. ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB
326:"If you become a little alert you will find love, light, laughter, everywhere!" ~ Osho, #NFDB
327:In the darkest of times, laughter helps revolutionize our perspective. ~ Phil Callaway, #NFDB
328:Laughter can deflate almost any problem down to its proper size. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
329:Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion. ~ Wyndham Lewis, #NFDB
330:Laughter makes the bitter swallowing of truth, for some, a little easier. ~ Bill Hicks, #NFDB
331:Superman’s scourge is kryptonite. Fear’s kryptonite is laughter. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
332:That diversion of life towards mechanism is the real cause of laughter ~ Henri Bergson, #NFDB
333:The house of laughter makes a house of woe. ~ Edward Young, Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), #NFDB
334:The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
335:This place may steal our life, but we can’t let it steal our laughter. ~ Hannah Howard, #NFDB
336:We all enter this world crying. Laughter is something we have to learn. ~ Gina Barreca, #NFDB
337:Your very natural and clear childlike laughter that charms the air, ~ St phane Mallarm, #NFDB
338:A genius of comedy His talent brought joy and Laughter to all the world. ~ Oliver Hardy, #NFDB
339:Don't ever lose that innocent laughter, don't let time take that away ~ John Mellencamp, #NFDB
340:Everyone has the gift of laughter inside of them. All the world is a prop. ~ Carrot Top, #NFDB
341:Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr, #NFDB
342:Laughter, I realized, was the reverberating sound of a truth hitting a lie. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
343:The gift of my childhood was laughter, being able to find the humor. ~ Jennifer Aniston, #NFDB
344:There is no laughter except that it is eventually followed up with weeping. ~ Ibn Sirin, #NFDB
345:There was some more good-natured laughter at the expense of women. ~ Zora Neale Hurston, #NFDB
346:How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always burning? ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
347:Humor is a prelude to faith, and laughter is the beginning of prayer. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr, #NFDB
348:If you become a little alert you will find love, light, laughter, everywhere. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
349:I looked up because of the laughter, and kept looking because of the girls. ~ Emma Cline, #NFDB
350:It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips. ~ Fred Allen, #NFDB
351:Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. ~ Henri Bergson, #NFDB
352:Laughter makes me come alive. Either being made to laugh or igniting it. ~ Melissa Rauch, #NFDB
353:Love and laughter go together; and laughter is one of the greatest medicines. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
354:One of the things that authoritarians hate is the sound of laughter. ~ Milo Yiannopoulos, #NFDB
355:Seriousness shows itself more majestically when laughter leads the way. ~ Heinrich Heine, #NFDB
356:Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter. ~ Thomas Hobbes, #NFDB
357:The power of laughter & love would beat out the power of fear every time. ~ John Goodman, #NFDB
358:The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness. ~ Milan Kundera, #NFDB
359:21He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
360:All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter. ~ Hubert Selby Jr, #NFDB
361:He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. ~ Rafael Sabatini, #NFDB
362:Human touch is powerful. It's calming. Free medicine. Like laughter. ~ Julie Anne Lindsey, #NFDB
363:in comedy laughter settles all argument
فى الكوميديا، الضحك ينهى أى جدل ~ Robert McKee,#NFDB
364:Laughter attracts joy, releases negativity, and leads to miraculous cures. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
365:Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
366:The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
367:A little bit of laughter and an occasional adult beverage never hurt nobody. ~ Erica Tazel, #NFDB
368:Amazing how shared laughter could sweeten life, make it seem worth living. ~ Annette Blair, #NFDB
369:Cynicism, sadness or laughter is the magicians privilege.
~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Null,#NFDB
370:God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
371:I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
372:Life is a waste without humor -- living is all about happiness and laughter. ~ Fauja Singh, #NFDB
373:Life was not all laughter and mornings at the beach. It was okay to cry. ~ Karen Kingsbury, #NFDB
374:Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter. ~ Walt Disney, #NFDB
375:Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
376:Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After. ~ James Thurber, #NFDB
377:To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect. ~ Honore de Balzac, #NFDB
378:We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist. ~ Joseph Heller, #NFDB
379:Whoever said laughter is the best medicine had clearly never tasted scotch. ~ Anne Taintor, #NFDB
380:3Frustration is better than laughter, because a sad face is good for the heart. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
381:Laughter is like sunshine; it chases winter away from the human face. Cosette ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
382:Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever. ~ Walt Disney Company, #NFDB
383:Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
384:Love, friendship, laughter... Some of the best things in life really are free. ~ Bob Marley, #NFDB
385:Meadowlark and I share a common vision of bringing joy and laughter to others. ~ Bill Cosby, #NFDB
386:People who crack wise tend to cause just as much laughter as abject anger. ~ Rick Gualtieri, #NFDB
387:She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer. ~ Gail Parent, #NFDB
388:Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter. ~ Saadi, #NFDB
389:A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
390:Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter. ~ Miriam Toews, #NFDB
391:Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand. ~ William Golding, #NFDB
392:Run,’ said a voice that was almost a growl. I ran like a lamb to his laughter. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
393:Sing with me, sing for the years. Sing for the laughter'n sing for the tears. ~ Steven Tyler, #NFDB
394:Thank goodness air and salvation are still free...and so is laughter. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery, #NFDB
395:There is something about laughter that can take away all the darkness. ~ Christina Applegate, #NFDB
396:All she ever wanted was unpredictable kisses and unforgettable laughter. ~ Brandon Villasenor, #NFDB
397:And the androgynous laughter continued, too. Thick globules of sexless cheer. ~ Josh Malerman, #NFDB
398:Joy, with peace, is the sister of charity. Serve the Lord with laughter. ~ Pio of Pietrelcina, #NFDB
399:laughter and a sense of humor as a universal index of spiritual development. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
400:Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
401:Laughter is, indeed, the only sane response to the world we live in. ~ Cap n Fatty Goodlander, #NFDB
402:Laughter is the only free emotion-the only one that can't be compelled.p.181 ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
403:The foundation of youth for me...lots of water, lots of laughter, lots of sex. ~ Cameron Diaz, #NFDB
404:The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed. ~ Bennett Cerf, #NFDB
405:They say laughter is the best medicine. They lie. Its brownies. -E-card Jack ~ Lani Lynn Vale, #NFDB
406:We are nervous laughter and fast breath and faster heartbeats, alive alive alive. ~ Amy Zhang, #NFDB
407:Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
408:Here here!” Tilden seconded, as they all joined her in the toast and the laughter. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
409:I have to tell you how nice that sound is. I haven't heard laughter in weeks. ~ Eliot Schrefer, #NFDB
410:it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life! ~ Zora Neale Hurston, #NFDB
411:Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself. ~ Alan Watts, #NFDB
412:Laughter is the most powerful weapon against verbal attack anyone can have. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
413:MARCO!” she yells, and there’s a ripple of shocked laughter through the trees. ~ Dot Hutchison, #NFDB
414:May all your days be filled with love, laughter, and happily-ever-after. ~ Aimee Nicole Walker, #NFDB
415:There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
416:There is no better taste than this: someone else's laughter in your mouth. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
417:There is no better taste than this: someone else’s laughter in your mouth. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
418:for laughter is the perfect medicine for the tortured heart, the balm for misery, ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
419:Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors. ~ Norman Cousins, #NFDB
420:It came from down where laughter is a defense and not an outstretched hand. ~ Jussi Adler Olsen, #NFDB
421:I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that. ~ Fred D Aguiar, #NFDB
422:Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice ~ Albert Schweitzer, #NFDB
423:...laughter emerges in the realization that all along the original was derived. ~ Judith Butler, #NFDB
424:Laughter is magic that dispenses clouds and creates sunshine in the soul. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
425:Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light. ~ W S Merwin, #NFDB
426:Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life." ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
427:Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter. ~ Desiderius Erasmus, #NFDB
428:The only time laughter is wicked is when it is turned against Him Who gave it. ~ Fulton J Sheen, #NFDB
429:Human touch is as important as water and food and air and laughter and new shoes. ~ Marian Keyes, #NFDB
430:Laughter at oneself is always proof that god has healed us in the touchy places! ~ Eugenia Price, #NFDB
431:Laughter is just like champagne -- only without the headache afterwards. ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard, #NFDB
432:Laughter is like tranquilizer
with no side effects!
So please take regularly. ~ Anonymous,#NFDB
433:She was quick to anger, quick to laughter, and jolly from the depths of her soul. ~ Willa Cather, #NFDB
434:The two women laughed, but their laughter was the kind wiht no core, only loose edges. ~ Lisa Ko, #NFDB
435:The two women laughed, but their laughter was the kind with no core, only loose edges. ~ Lisa Ko, #NFDB
436:Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
437:I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it. ~ Albert Brooks, #NFDB
438:It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance. ~ Martha Graham, #NFDB
439:. . . I understand that this is the point of laughter, to spread happiness. ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
440:I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke. ~ Peta Wilson, #NFDB
441:I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
442:Joy, not sorrow.
Laughter, not tears.
Life, not death.
Love, not blame. ~ Lisa Schroeder,#NFDB
443:Just as true humour is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself. ~ Alan W Watts, #NFDB
444:Laughter gurgled up from inside her. She'd just mugged a mugger. Look out, world. ~ Erin Kellison, #NFDB
445:Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine. ~ Norman Vincent Peale, #NFDB
446:The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth. ~ Thomas de Quincey, #NFDB
447:Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, there’s always laughter and good red wine. ~ Hilaire Belloc, #NFDB
448:Alone among the animals, he is shaken with the beautiful madness called laughter; ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
449:Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
450:casting smiles her way—knowing smiles. The wood creaked in laughter beneath their ~ MaryLu Tyndall, #NFDB
451:Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain. ~ Marc Maron, #NFDB
452:I believe in the healing power of laughter. I believe laughter forces us to breathe. ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
453:I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror ~ Charlie Chaplin, #NFDB
454:Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing. My soul probably looks like Fred Astaire. ~ Jarod Kintz, #NFDB
455:Let the giggles fill your mouth because nothing tastes as sweet as laughter. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
456:Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
457:The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul. ~ Gloria Naylor, #NFDB
458:The voices and laughter and birds and wind and traffic combined and separated gently. ~ Ben Lerner, #NFDB
459:To a happy war!' laughter echoed with all the insane glee of an army of psychopaths. ~ Stuart Hill, #NFDB
460:Wherever their laughter came from, Ender couldn’t find such a place in himself. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
461:And perhaps, because I liked you.” His laughter was bitter, like broken glass. ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
462:Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. ~ Carl Sandburg, #NFDB
463:Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes. ~ Steve Coogan, #NFDB
464:Cue the cruel and mocking laughter from the puppet master of this fucked up sideshow. ~ A Zavarelli, #NFDB
465:In a world of regret, sacrifice and hardship, laughter and music are medicine. ~ Immortal Technique, #NFDB
466:Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge
of oneself. ~ Alan W Watts,#NFDB
467:Laughter is the only thing that cuts trouble down to a size where you can talk to it. ~ Dan Jenkins, #NFDB
468:Life was wonderful, so filled with people and activities, with love and laughter. ~ Judith McNaught, #NFDB
469:Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. ~ Lawrence Durrell, #NFDB
470:Marriage should be about fun. It's about friendship, and laughter, and trust, and fun. ~ Jane Green, #NFDB
471:My heart can't stop beating faster, every time I hear your name or your laughter. ~ Melissa Ferrick, #NFDB
472:No one will disagree that bringing laughter to children in a dark world is admirable. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
473:There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour. ~ Rachel Cohn, #NFDB
474:Whenever we hear laughter, we sense the magic and the beauty of being existed! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
475:And as everyone knows, the best kind of laughter is laughter born of a shared memory. ~ Mindy Kaling, #NFDB
476:Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
477:Dancing to a great song with great friends and lots of laughter makes me come alive. ~ Sadie Calvano, #NFDB
478:I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter. ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun, #NFDB
479:In disasters, children show us the way to laughter. They are our special treasures. ~ Gretel Ehrlich, #NFDB
480:In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
481:I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me. ~ Max Beerbohm, #NFDB
482:Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
483:Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. ~ James Runcie, #NFDB
484:So blended and intertwisted in this life are occasions of laughter and of tears, ~ Thomas de Quincey, #NFDB
485:That was laughter-a natural eruption of good humor that occurs when people are amused. ~ Carla Kelly, #NFDB
486:The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity. ~ Henri Bergson, #NFDB
487:Vulnerability is like being naked onstage and hoping for applause rather than laughter. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
488:A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
489:Her house is the nest where she hides the joy, laughter, sorrows, and regrets of her life. ~ Lisa See, #NFDB
490:Humor is most powerful thing that uses laughter as it base to chase your blues away. ~ Kareena Kapoor, #NFDB
491:I ask for a decree
dooming my bitter enemies to laughter
advanced against them. ~ John Berryman,#NFDB
492:It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
493:Laughter and happiness is what life should be about, that’s your remedy for everything. ~ Fauja Singh, #NFDB
494:Laughter and love are their own forms of exercise meant to keep a body healthy. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
495:Laughter is the only thing that'll cut trouble down to a size where you can talk to it. ~ Dan Jenkins, #NFDB
496:One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter. ~ Osho, #NFDB
497:She smelled of lemon and sunshine and a thousand Summer days filled with laughter. ~ Elizabeth Camden, #NFDB
498:Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God. ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
499:He’s summertime and his kisses warm sunlight. He makes me think of popsicles and laughter. ~ Mia Asher, #NFDB
500:I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them. ~ Judy Garland, #NFDB
501:Jackie laughed, although she didn't find it funny. There are other reasons for laughter. ~ Joseph Fink, #NFDB
502:Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts... ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
503:Laughter in battle. That was what Ragnar had taught me, to take joy from the fight. ~ Bernard Cornwell, #NFDB
504:There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
505:We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter. ~ Ringo Starr, #NFDB
506:Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
507:Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. ~ Thomas Carlyle, #NFDB
508:Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously. ~ Wyndham Lewis, #NFDB
509:Laughter is the only tenable attitude in a universe which is a joke played on itself. ~ Peter J Carroll, #NFDB
510:Love and laughter and fucking make one's life better. Worship is just the passing of time. ~ James Frey, #NFDB
511:One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it? ~ Tom Baker, #NFDB
512:The best writers were philosophers who wrapped their commentary about life in laughter. ~ Dick Van Dyke, #NFDB
513:The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself. ~ Neal A Maxwell, #NFDB
514:there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
515:Wild with laughter, Twelfth Night is nevertheless almost always on the edge of violence. ~ Harold Bloom, #NFDB
516:You know, theres endorphins in laughter, as there are endorphins in running in the park. ~ Marlo Thomas, #NFDB
517:A bit of laughter can be the bridge that lets you cross out of a bad time, believe you me. ~ John Langan, #NFDB
518:A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction. ~ Plato, #NFDB
519:Give up being right. Instead radiate peace, harmony, love, and laughter from your heart. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
520:Here I was again tonight forcing laughter, faking smiles
Same old tired, lonely place ~ Taylor Swift,#NFDB
521:Laughter can get through the keyhole while seriousness is still hammering on the door. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
522:Nothing creates a bond between people in Africa more quickly than shaed laughter". ~ Ryszard Kapu ci ski, #NFDB
523:People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.' ~ Sid Caesar, #NFDB
524:The almost-always-ghastly exclamation point has been lately compared to canned laughter. ~ George F Will, #NFDB
525:The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion. ~ Richard P Feynman, #NFDB
526:The source of our laughter is the small stone that tumbled into a corner of Pandora’s box. ~ Osamu Dazai, #NFDB
527:When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. ~ Sherman Alexie, #NFDB
528:Yes, I can endure guilt, however horrible; The laughter of my enemies I will not endure. Now ~ Euripides, #NFDB
529:And her laughter was like the wind, the water, and a thousand songbirds singing together. ~ Gerald Morris, #NFDB
530:At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ~ Jean Houston, #NFDB
531:Her laughter sounded like April showers, like whispered secrets, like glass wind-chimes. ~ Rebecca McNutt, #NFDB
532:It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man. ~ Francois Rabelais, #NFDB
533:Laugh a lot. Laughter will make even the dreariest situations a whole lot more enjoyable. ~ Robert Cheeke, #NFDB
534:Laughter has been implanted in our soul, that the soul may sometime be refreshed. ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #NFDB
535:Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage. ~ Erma Bombeck, #NFDB
536:Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up. ~ Charlie Chaplin, #NFDB
537:One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
538:The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter. ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
539:There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. ~ Erma Bombeck, #NFDB
540:What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter. ~ Joseph Barbera, #NFDB
541:All of my books are made of sweat, blood, laughter, cat hair, chocolate and inspiration. ~ Julie Anne Long, #NFDB
542:I am a haunted man. I am haunted by the Limper’s screams. I am haunted by the Lady’s laughter. ~ Glen Cook, #NFDB
543:In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB
544:Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
545:Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter. ~ Pablo Neruda, #NFDB
546:If Words are the Lyrics, and Laughter the Melody, then a Relationship becomes a Symphony. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
547:I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore. ~ John Green, #NFDB
548:Not since Jimmy Carr have I seen a cold computer programme on stage generate so much laughter. ~ Robin Ince, #NFDB
549:Sorrow is better than laughter; for, by the sadness of the countenance, the heart is made better. ~ Solomon, #NFDB
550:The philosophy of laughter will never have anything in common with the religion of tears.
~ Eliphas Levi,#NFDB
551:Companionship. Trust. Friendship. Laughter. That’s what puts the passion into a relationship. ~ Dannika Dark, #NFDB
552:Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for. And that's what I am. ~ Emma Thompson, #NFDB
553:Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness. ~ Isobelle Carmody, #NFDB
554:Laughter takes the tyranny of the lies we are told and told and told and it blows them apart. ~ Kate Clinton, #NFDB
555:Not all families are bonded through blood. Some have been sewn together by love and laughter. ~ Belle Aurora, #NFDB
556:Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
557:they would have died of laughter—because when they laughed, she would have strangled them. ~ Josiah Bancroft, #NFDB
558:We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom. ~ Rosario Castellanos, #NFDB
559:And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss. ~ Lea Thompson, #NFDB
560:Anne Lamott, whom I once heard say, “Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.” Amen! ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
561:Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter. ~ Edward Abbey, #NFDB
562:If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter. ~ William Paul Young, #NFDB
563:I felt horribly sad at that moment, yet something like laughter was stirring in my soul. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
564:Laughter filled the line, the sound big and warm and primal. “We are family now, Bowen Knight! ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB
565:Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
566:Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart. ~ Pat Conroy, #NFDB
567:To laugh is to dare, because laughter dares fate and sorrow and the weight of all injustices. ~ Sara Douglass, #NFDB
568:What was the good of restrained laughter; it made a mockery of the entire practice of laughing. ~ Jean Plaidy, #NFDB
569:Come on you target for faraway laughter. Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine! ~ Pink Floyd, #NFDB
570:I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
571:I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous. ~ Francois Rabelais, #NFDB
572:Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world was falling apart. ~ Pat Conroy, #NFDB
573:Laughter, music, prayer, touch, truth telling, and forgiveness are universal methods of healing. ~ Mary Pipher, #NFDB
574:Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief. ~ Henry Roth, #NFDB
575:THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. ~ Immanuel Kant, #NFDB
576:Through all of living have much joy and laughter, life is to be enjoyed, not just endured. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB
577:a rowdy little girl who gave way upon the slightest provocation to uncontrollable laughter ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
578:Enjoyable social interaction, community and laughter has a healing effect on the mind and body. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
579:Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top. ~ Norman Cousins, #NFDB
580:The passenger wondered when it was that he had first begun to detest laughter like a bad smell. ~ Graham Greene, #NFDB
581:What is life if not laughter and love, caring and compassion, fresh bread and crisp radishes? ~ James Kavanaugh, #NFDB
582:But she was looking into the past, trying to understand when it was that all the laughter died. ~ Sidney Sheldon, #NFDB
583:God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter. ~ Sydney J Harris, #NFDB
584:He decided that for an ounce of that laughter, he could sacrifice an entire lifetime of happiness. ~ Faraaz Kazi, #NFDB
585:Her eyes moved like an independent organism with joy, laughter, anger, amazement, and despair. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
586:He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater, #NFDB
587:It's my theory that if you hear enough applause and laughter at a young enough age, you're doomed ~ John Lithgow, #NFDB
588:Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward. ~ Carol Channing, #NFDB
589:Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not. ~ Robin McKinley, #NFDB
590:Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
591:Purpose and laughter are the twins that must not separate. Each is empty without the other. ~ Robert K Greenleaf, #NFDB
592:Sharing laughter is a way of casting delight to the wind so it blows everywhere and to everyone. ~ Paul Pearsall, #NFDB
593:What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears? ~ Soren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
594:What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears? ~ S ren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
595:I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin. ~ Matt LeBlanc, #NFDB
596:I conjured for him electric skies and iridescent seas and evenings full of laughter and silly jokes. ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
597:If you hear enough applause and laughter at a young enough age, you are doomed to become an actor. ~ John Lithgow, #NFDB
598:Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives. ~ Malachy McCourt, #NFDB
599:Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. ~ Bob Newhart, #NFDB
600:Not words.
nor laughter.
but rather someone
who will fall in love
with your silence. ~ Sanober Khan,#NFDB
601:Pranking exposes the truth that underneath this appearance of order is joy, laughter, and disorder. ~ Mac Barnett, #NFDB
602:Togetherness, passion, laughter, faith, trust, and jealousy are the essential ingredients of love ~ Shahrukh Khan, #NFDB
603:Clear communication. Respect. A lot of laughter. And a lot of orgasms. That's what makes a marriage work. ~ Dr Dre, #NFDB
604:Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter. ~ Immanuel Kant, #NFDB
605:Joy. Oh my god. He’s my joy. My laughter. My strength. My challenge. My motivation. My rock. My joy. ~ Pippa Grant, #NFDB
606:Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
607:Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that we were compelled to invent laughter. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
608:Name the different types of laughter that are available to us and that’s what life is all about. ~ William Shatner, #NFDB
609:opportunity of winning food and shelter, man can live and even find his laughter ringing true. ~ Ernest Shackleton, #NFDB
610:The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying. ~ Rohinton Mistry, #NFDB
611:They forgot about us women!” When laughter broke out, she countered, “Do I look like I’m joking? ~ Beverly Jenkins, #NFDB
612:While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver. ~ Ryan Adams, #NFDB
613:A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people. ~ John Cleese, #NFDB
614:I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure. ~ Pat Conroy, #NFDB
615:Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagion: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop. ~ Robert Holden, #NFDB
616:Laughter is easier, minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
617:Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play. ~ Max Eastman, #NFDB
618:Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
619:The kind of laughter, that sudden joy that strikes hidden fault lines and cracks them wide open. ~ Sibella Giorello, #NFDB
620:There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise. ~ Brian Andreas, #NFDB
621:The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath. ~ Janet Fitch, #NFDB
622:The warm sound of her laughter stole through Khalid's skin, heating the coldest reaches of his soul. ~ Ren e Ahdieh, #NFDB
623:The women laugh a little. I do too. Though I’m only mimicking their laughter. Nothing is funny to me. ~ Gregg Olsen, #NFDB
624:What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
~ Soren Kierkegaard,#NFDB
625:Dedicated to everyone who knows the importance of laughter, and counts it as their workout for the day. ~ Cassie Mae, #NFDB
626:Even if I wasn't an actress or a comedian, I would be spreading love and laughter [with] whatever I did. ~ Kim Coles, #NFDB
627:He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." (the novel Scaramouche) ~ Rafael Sabatini, #NFDB
628:I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
629:Laugh my friend, for laughter ignites a fire within the pit of your belly and awakens your being. ~ Stella McCartney, #NFDB
630:Laughter comes from living." I shrug, try to sound indifferent. "I've never really been alive before. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
631:Laughter comes from living.” I shrug, try to sound indifferent. “I’ve never really been alive before. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
632:Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list. ~ Jasper Carrott, #NFDB
633:Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
634:Penny gasped as her body shook with laughter, eyes streaming.
Sam watched her like she was nuts. ~ Mary H K Choi,#NFDB
635:She's my muse. She's my laughter. She's my trigger. She's my desire. But most of all, she's my heart. ~ Elle Kennedy, #NFDB
636:Sometimes I crack myself up; but laughter is biblical, so I feel almost holy laughing at my own jokes. ~ Judah Smith, #NFDB
637:the gift is having a daughter more gentle
than you are, whose laughter is finer
than yours. ~ Charles Bukowski,#NFDB
638:The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work. ~ Elbert Hubbard, #NFDB
639:The voice of a donkey braying in the neighbouring meadow seemed like the mocking laughter of demons. ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
640:What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up! ~ Hafez, #NFDB
641:Gold-mines? Did you say gold-mines?" Mitya shouted with all his might, and rolled with laughter. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
642:Gold-mines? Did you say gold-mines?' Mitya shouted with all his might, and rolled with laughter. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
643:Gold-mines? Did you say gold-mines?’ Mitya shouted with all his might, and rolled with laughter. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
644:...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days. ~ Henry James, #NFDB
645:He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
646:I found that laughter was a form of acceptance, and I really enjoyed that and I just - I crave it. ~ Gabriel Iglesias, #NFDB
647:If you wanted to separate humans from their humanity...killing laughter would be a good place to start. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
648:Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
649:Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
650:Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it’s true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
651:Time is a river rolling into nowhere. We must live while we can, and we'll drink our cup of laughter. ~ Steve Winwood, #NFDB
652:A 'naughty pickle' is how I'd best describe myself. I think fun and laughter is the whole point of life. ~ Celia Imrie, #NFDB
653:Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor. ~ Karl Barth, #NFDB
654:I teach you celebration. And laughter has certainly to be one of the major ingredients in this celebration. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
655:It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
656:That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter. ~ Sheldon B Kopp, #NFDB
657:To win brings its pleasure. The true victory brings laughter and satisfaction that can’t be matched. ~ David R Hawkins, #NFDB
658:very rich indeed, rich in the things that matter. In friendships and laughter, in kindness and company. ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
659:When a hilarious joke triggers uncontrollable laughter, at some point tears roll out from the eyes. The ~ Shubha Vilas, #NFDB
660:All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter. ~ Fred Allen, #NFDB
661:Families where there is not much laughter I think are signs of some sort of dysfunctionality or sickness. ~ Stephen Fry, #NFDB
662:It is all right to cry but don’t give up on laughter. Don’t give up on happiness. You need both. I had both. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
663:Maybe this will be the summer when there is nothing but laughter. Maybe this will be the summer. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz, #NFDB
664:No baby shall at any time be quartered in a house where there are no soft laps, no laughter, or no love. ~ Erma Bombeck, #NFDB
665:Smiles are a funny thing
and laughter is hilarious.
I smile sometimes
when I am delirious. ~ Casey Renee Kiser,#NFDB
666:You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused. ~ Gilda Radner, #NFDB
667:All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter. ~ James Tiptree Jr, #NFDB
668:An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person. ~ Norman Cousins, #NFDB
669:Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things? ~ Beverley Nichols, #NFDB
670:If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
671:In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
672:In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour. ~ Henri Bergson, #NFDB
673:Kiss the mouth which tells you, here, here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones. ~ Galway Kinnell, #NFDB
674:Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world. ~ H Rider Haggard, #NFDB
675:Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing. ~ Immanuel Kant, #NFDB
676:Laughter is soul making, too. No matter how dark and serious a crisis seems, I shouldn't abandon my joy. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
677:May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, #NFDB
678:Nothing ever happens on this globe for good without some people having their fill of laughter at first. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
679:Richard Quin broke into laughter. ‘Good old Cordy! I’ve always told you we needn’t worry about old Cordy. ~ Rebecca West, #NFDB
680:She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra. ~ Dorothy L Sayers, #NFDB
681:Solemnity flows out of men naturally; but laughter is a leap. It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
682:The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter. ~ Hannah Arendt, #NFDB
683:And what is laughter but a flashing of the soul, that is, a light appearing externally as it is within. ~ Dante Alighieri, #NFDB
684:He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony. ~ Rafael Sabatini, #NFDB
685:I know its corny, but laughter is a two-way gift, and hearing people laugh just warms me through and through. ~ Andy Dick, #NFDB
686:I prefer your smiles and laughter, wife, but there are far worse things than your tears wetting my skin. ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
687:She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra. ~ Dorothy L Sayers, #NFDB
688:So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. ~ Gordon W Allport, #NFDB
689:The beauty of the world . . . has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. ~ Elisabeth Egan, #NFDB
690:A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.BibleEccl.x. 19.8. To ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
691:Cruel laughter is the way cowards cry when they’re not alone, and causing pain is how they grieve. ~ Gregory David Roberts, #NFDB
692:Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
693:Everyone feels loss and love and laughter. That's what connects humanity. It's why I love Shakespeare. ~ Stephanie Beatriz, #NFDB
694:He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz, #NFDB
695:He tried not to laugh, but he wasn’t good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz, #NFDB
696:I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. ~ Roger Ebert, #NFDB
697:I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter. ~ Neil Jordan, #NFDB
698:I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit. ~ Bill Hicks, #NFDB
699:Laughing with a man was a good step forward. First comes the laughter, then the respect, then the trust. ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB
700:Laughter is the only real way to express how glad you are to be alive when you know too much of death. ~ Meg Waite Clayton, #NFDB
701:We clutch our bellies and roll on the floor...
When I say this, it should mean laughter,
not poison. ~ Richard Siken,#NFDB
702:You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
703:God shined his laughter down upon us like a giant heat lamp and therefore we did not cringe at the death hole ~ Anne Sexton, #NFDB
704:I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth. ~ Muriel Spark, #NFDB
705:I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit. ~ Bill Hicks, #NFDB
706:I realize that I can laugh, that it is possible to be happy, that laughter and hope can come back to me. ~ Philippa Gregory, #NFDB
707:Laugh every chance you get. Laughter is sure to break the bonds of negativity that may be lurking about. ~ James Van Praagh, #NFDB
708:Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss. ~ Allen Klein, #NFDB
709:To me there is nothing more sacred than love and laughter, and there is nothing more prayerful than playfulness. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
710:Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful. ~ Lynsay Sands, #NFDB
711:For solemnity flows out of men naturally; but laughter is a leap. It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
712:Friendship and holidays. A swimming pool. Champagne and sunshine and laughter. It seemed like a dream life. ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
713:If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
714:It is difficult for people to appreciate their own laughter unless you show them some pathos along the way. ~ Jackie Gleason, #NFDB
715:Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it. ~ Eben Alexander, #NFDB
716:Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
717:That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying. ~ Isobelle Carmody, #NFDB
718:The diary ends with a single repeated phrase: laughter is possible laughter is possible laughter is possible ~ Ruth Franklin, #NFDB
719:The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same”- ~ Brian Andreas, #NFDB
720:The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
721:Her laughter began low and quiet then rose in pitch and flickered all over the room, like blood splatter. ~ Caroline B Cooney, #NFDB
722:I cut my eyes to the alley. Ranger was still there, doubled over the steering wheel, shaking with laughter. ~ Janet Evanovich, #NFDB
723:I thought you were a narcissist."
Koppel burst into laughter.
"I'm too ugly to be a narcissist," he said. ~ Mitch Albom,#NFDB
724:Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins. ~ Edmond de Goncourt, #NFDB
725:{T}here is a point at which even grief feels absurd. And at this point, laughter gushes up to retrieve sanity. ~ Alice Walker, #NFDB
726:Children are remarkable creatures, hurtling through savage landscapes of sudden laughter and sharp heartbreaks. ~ Lyndsay Faye, #NFDB
727:The laughter that they shared filled the room, a shot of intoxicating warmth like the first hint of summer ~ Balli Kaur Jaswal, #NFDB
728:Treat a disease with drunkenness, laughter, and sport. If you find any trace of it after that, give it to me. ~ Naguib Mahfouz, #NFDB
729:And that’s how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. ~ Laini Taylor, #NFDB
730:Children’s laughter—carefree, giddy, maniacal—filled the woods. A nightmare version of some game from his youth. ~ Blake Crouch, #NFDB
731:Good-hearted laughter is a tribute to the happy God, who created laughter and delights to enter into it with us. ~ Randy Alcorn, #NFDB
732:I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe. ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
733:I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter. ~ Soleil Moon Frye, #NFDB
734:It seemed like everything he was feeling was right there in his eyes—a hint of nerves, a touch of laughter. No ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
735:Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
736:Laughter's meant to be loving, wrapping itself around you like a hug, but when it's aimed at me, it seems cruel. ~ John Marsden, #NFDB
737:Reading is my superpower,” I muttered, trying to prevent the escape of the hysterical laughter welling up inside me. ~ J B Lynn, #NFDB
738:and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
739:Anyone who hears enough laughter and applause at a young age will become an actor, whether they intend to or not. ~ John Lithgow, #NFDB
740:AQAL is a map of samsara, a map of the prison, but if you gonna make a prison brake,you need a good map. (laughter) ~ Ken Wilber, #NFDB
741:Carry me on and on to the edge of the earth, with children's laughter like a wind - full sail, then carry me beyond ~ Eowyn Ivey, #NFDB
742:It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing. ~ Ken Kesey, #NFDB
743:Katsa and Po were trying to drown each other and, judging from their hoots of laughter, enjoying it immensely. ~ Kristin Cashore, #NFDB
744:Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and sorrow not only in one mind, but in one composition. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
745:Their laughter hides their loss, their smiles hide their grief, their eyes hide a pain that will not be eased. ~ Intisar Khanani, #NFDB
746:He blinked, then roared with laughter. "Eve Dallas, Vampire Slayer. One for the books." ~ J D RobbEternity in Death ~ J D Robb, #NFDB
747:Jase, which deep down was a hopeless romantic, thought her laughter sounded like the tinkling of mountain streams, ~ Iain M Banks, #NFDB
748:Laughter broke from them. It spread into a roar of acclamation; for bluff is a weapon dear to every adventurer. ~ Rafael Sabatini, #NFDB
749:Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health. ~ Barbara Johnson, #NFDB
750:Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail. ~ Heinrich Heine, #NFDB
751:Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty. ~ Osho Have a great start of the week!, #NFDB
752:Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
753:Once upon a time a boy loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. ~ Nicole Krauss, #NFDB
754:O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind. ~ Juvenal, #NFDB
755:There was much less laughter and a lot more hanging around in the library when Hermione was your best friend. Harry ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
756:Although a lot can be learned from adversity, most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy. ~ Peter McWilliams, #NFDB
757:In that one moment, I wrapped a thousand others. A lifetime of joy, sorrow, laughter, frowns, smiles, tears... life! ~ Faraaz Kazi, #NFDB
758:Laughter layered the walls and clung to the dust mites, making them sparkle like lightning bugs in the daytime. ~ Suzanne Palmieri, #NFDB
759:...make your children unhappy so they can face the world, but then, what is a world without children's laughter? ~ Ambeth R Ocampo, #NFDB
760:Summerlee burst into derisive laughter. 'A ptero-fiddlestick!' said he. 'It was a stork, if I ever I saw one. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
761:The purpose of laughter is to bring one to silence, and the purpose of silence is to bring one to laughter. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, #NFDB
762:There was laughter in the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there. ~ George S Kaufman, #NFDB
763:and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense
and are not easy to fool with laughter ~ Charles Bukowski,#NFDB
764:Can there be joy and laughter when always the world is ablaze? Enshrouded in darkness, should you not seek light? ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
765:His whole body starts to move to the beat made by his mom. The two of them produce the most welcomed sound: laughter. ~ Lola St Vil, #NFDB
766:If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating. ~ Paul Merton, #NFDB
767:Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God. ~ Sean Connery, #NFDB
768:The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
769:... the sweetest softest melody, as good a sound as the laughter of a pretty girl, or your mother calling you to dinner. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
770:... the sweetest softest melody, as good a sound as the laughter of a pretty girl. or your mother calling you to dinner. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
771:This world will try to beat you down. Only laughter can counteract that. Laughter is ammunition. Resupply often. ~ Richard Phillips, #NFDB
772:What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy. ~ Marie Corelli, #NFDB
773:Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shpwrecked by the laughter of the gods. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
774:Yet the laughter had a tinge of uneasiness about it, because this business about nineteen had gotten a trifle weird. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
775:Beyond the deepest tragedy there is laughter; even in the midst of tragedy there is always the possibility for laughter. ~ Del Close, #NFDB
776:In our house we don't take ourselves too seriously, and laughter is the best form of unity, I think, in a marriage. ~ Michelle Obama, #NFDB
777:It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
778:Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. ~ Chuck Jones, #NFDB
779:Know you the wastes of tears that lie between our life in Tol Eressëa and that time of laughter that we knew in Valinor? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
780:Music doesn’t soothe the savage beast, Cal,” Shay said, dipping me so low my hair brushed the floor. “Laughter does. ~ Andrea Cremer, #NFDB
781:Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
782:Quiet laughter fills the tunnel."Now I see why you're so attached to her, Bowen. you're gettin' sugar," Tommy says ~ Bethany Wiggins, #NFDB
783:Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
784:And then she went off into a gale of her great roaring laughter. “Oh, dear,” said Freddy. “Now look what I’ve done! ~ Walter R Brooks, #NFDB
785:a scientific theory that laughter and humor increase the odds of survival among patients with terminal illnesses? ~ Suzanne Brockmann, #NFDB
786:Everyone was laughin'. Even that deaf mute boy was breathing heavy and pointing at me. Which is laughter to their kind. ~ Dave Attell, #NFDB
787:I’m not proud of it, but I celebrated karma’s brilliance in a drunken rage of laughter, facemasks, and nail polish. So ~ Harper Sloan, #NFDB
788:My head against his shoulder, he laughs as if the laughter wants to travel a good distance, down through my body also. ~ Colum McCann, #NFDB
789:The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay, I heard the laughter of her heart in every street café. ~ Oscar Hammerstein II, #NFDB
790:Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance. ~ Blaise Pascal, #NFDB
791:And that was when she realized that laughter, which they had lost, had come back to them, and they were whole again. ~ Dorothy Dunnett, #NFDB
792:Don't take life too seriously. Have fun in your life. And, never forget my mantra - love and laughter supersede all! ~ Lisa Vanderpump, #NFDB
793:From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. ~ Groucho Marx, #NFDB
794:From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it. ~ Groucho Marx, #NFDB
795:Her melodious laughter sounded like the distant tinkling of soft bells and he stored the sound in her temple- his heart. ~ Faraaz Kazi, #NFDB
796:He’s also a dick,’ said Achilleus to a scattering of laughter. Maxie saw that even Nicola was trying to hide a smile. ~ Charlie Higson, #NFDB
797:I hear laughter and suck in a breath when I realize it’s mine … and his. Together. It sounds nice. Kind of like music. ~ Katie McGarry, #NFDB
798:It is in the midst of laughter that our perspective alters and we realize this trying life can still be enjoyed. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
799:Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about. ~ Henri Nouwen, #NFDB
800:Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow. ~ Diane Johnson, #NFDB
801:Poe barely contained the burst of laughter at the look he gave, like a man having a fire hose shoved up his rectum. When ~ Lucian Bane, #NFDB
802:The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
803:To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
804:What did your last slave die of?”
“Disobedience,” I deadpanned. I heard her laughter all the way back into the house. ~ Anne Malcom,#NFDB
805:Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things. ~ Brenda Ueland, #NFDB
806:From here on after let's stay the way we are right now. And share all the love and laughter that a lifetime will allow. ~ George Strait, #NFDB
807:If you want special illumination, look upon the human face:
See clearly within laughter the Essence of Ultimate Truth. ~ Idries Shah,#NFDB
808:It was always the power of love that pulled us through, and it was the power of laughter that kept us from falling apart. ~ Steve Rizzo, #NFDB
809:I want gunshots and canned laughter and dog food commercials. Nothing seems too tragic when the television is blaring. ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
810:Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters. ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
811:Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. ~ Alice Walker, #NFDB
812:Laughter is sort of a natural truth detector. If you laugh at something, it's probably because there was some truth in it. ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
813:Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end. ~ Kris Kristofferson, #NFDB
814:They were eyes made for laughter, but not raucous yuks; rather, for the laughter of wit, of erudition, of the bon mot. ~ Stephen Hunter, #NFDB
815:A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows. ~ Don Marquis, #NFDB
816:I am no good alone. I need bonds, vows real if unspoken, shared laughter, and people who depend on me as I depend on them. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
817:I steeled myself against laughter; I would rather die than laugh. I didn’t laugh, I did not laugh. But I died, I did die. ~ Miranda July, #NFDB
818:I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it's more than that. It's an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids. ~ Stephen Colbert, #NFDB
819:Maggie's shoulder shook with silent laughter, and she laid her head on my shoulder as she watched them. And I watched her. ~ Abbi Glines, #NFDB
820:nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
821:Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
822:Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep. ~ Norman Cousins, #NFDB
823:The kiss was fire and snow, laughter and tears--over-whelming in a thousand different ways and yet grounding her to the spot. ~ K M Shea, #NFDB
824:The moment is so thick around me that I feel like dropping into it to let it carry me. I love the laughter of this night. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
825:What the fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy. ~ Claude M Bristol, #NFDB
826:Feeding off each other, magnified by the knowledge that the laughter was so inappropriate, their mirth was uncontrollable. ~ Brandon Mull, #NFDB
827:His laughter made me laugh, his thoughts made me think, and his silence made me listen to each intake of his breath. ~ Charlie N Holmberg, #NFDB
828:In life, you can choose to cry about the bullshit that happens to you or you can choose to laugh about it. I chose laughter. ~ Kevin Hart, #NFDB
829:Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision. ~ Quintilian, #NFDB
830:Yet the laughter had a tinge of uneasiness about it, because this business about nineteen had gotten a trifle weird. Eddie ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
831:A good fart joke makes me bawl with laughter, so will somebody farting. And the word 'poo.' You can't beat a good poo joke. ~ Jenny Eclair, #NFDB
832:From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations ~ Hippocrates, #NFDB
833:I felt the distance and stillness of that sprawled dawn like some endless sky waking inside me, flared against the laughter. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB
834:I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways. ~ Lucille Ball, #NFDB
835:I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage. ~ Bob Newhart, #NFDB
836:I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world. ~ Peter Ustinov, #NFDB
837:laughter is cathartic and cleansing, that it's good for the body and the soul, and when it's real it's better than sex. ~ Patricia Gaffney, #NFDB
838:Laughter is like the old grandmother in every family,” I note, “it brings everyone together. Even people that hate each other. ~ B N Toler, #NFDB
839:Laughter may instruct but it may also conceal, defending the joker against anger and retaliation: a game is only a game. ~ Margaret Atwood, #NFDB
840:she clung to him, she poured out her terrors, her unavailing regrets, and the far echoes turned them all to jeering laughter. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
841:There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private ~ Jesmyn Ward, #NFDB
842:The silence was gone now, and the night was filled with voices—a chirp, a growl, a twitter—a burst of high-pitched laughter. ~ Lois Duncan, #NFDB
843:You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. ~ Bill Cosby, #NFDB
844:A song? What laughter or what song
Can this house remember?
Do flowers and butterflies
Belong to a blind December? ~ Robert Graves,#NFDB
845:I can do pain. That's the easy part of life. It's everything else, happines, laughter, love, that's fucking complicated. ~ Jessica Sorensen, #NFDB
846:It was also easy to imagine the good smells, the laughter as they sat down. Easy to imagine . . . but probably a mistake. It ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
847:Laughter changes to screams, blood stains pastel stones, real smoke darkens the special effect stuff made for television. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
848:There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing. ~ Marlene Dietrich, #NFDB
849:There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private. ~ Jesmyn Ward, #NFDB
850:Trying to figure things out was my gig. Without the human condition, there's no struggle, no pain and that means no laughter. ~ Lenny Bruce, #NFDB
851:What a messed up year this is going to be.” Becky said after the laughter quieted down. “And it’s only just the beginning. ~ Adrienne Woods, #NFDB
852:Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. ~ Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
853:Don’t go all Elsa on me. No ‘letting it all go,’ okay?” “Cross my half-demon heart.” A glimmer of laughter touched his eyes. ~ Pippa DaCosta, #NFDB
854:I can do pain. That’s the easy part of life. It’s everything else, happiness, laughter, love, that’s fucking complicated. ~ Jessica Sorensen, #NFDB
855:I just - you know, some people just have some very full laughter - full of joy - and have no shame or fear of letting that out. ~ Ray Liotta, #NFDB
856:Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt. ~ John Osborne, #NFDB
857:Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about. ~ Chuck Jones, #NFDB
858:Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband. ~ Elsa Maxwell, #NFDB
859:Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
860:The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
861:We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine. ~ Henri Barbusse, #NFDB
862:All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other. ~ August Wilson, #NFDB
863:...Big Bang which was really the roaring laughter of God voluntarily getting lost for the millionth time. ~ Ken Wilber, Up From Eden, p. 328, #NFDB
864:His tears and his spontaneous laughter are teachings within the teaching, reminding us of the incarnate dimension of wisdom. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
865:I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
866:I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry. ~ Yusuf Islam, #NFDB
867:I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong. ~ W E B Du Bois, #NFDB
868:Are you sane, Mother?
Laughter in his mind, painful in its familiarity. Is any immortal every truly sane? ~ Nalini Singh,#NFDB
869:If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
870:If he didn't get out of here - right now - Harrier was either going to break into hysterical laughter or strangle somebody. ~ Mercedes Lackey, #NFDB
871:I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world's greatest horseplayer. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
872:It would be a different Church if I were running it.” And so lifted the burden of that terrible morning with some laughter. ~ Alice McDermott, #NFDB
873:Our laughter dissolves into a crackling current that steals my breath away. Our eyes lock, and heat pools low in my belly. ~ Lisa Renee Jones, #NFDB
874:The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
875:There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about. ~ Criss Jami, #NFDB
876:And it seemed to her that kisses, voices, tinkling spoons, laughter, the smell of crushed grass were somehow inside her. ~ Katherine Mansfield, #NFDB
877:Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
878:fight back laughter. “As you wish.” “Did you really just Princess Bride me?” “Did you really just use Princess Bride as a verb? ~ Elle Kennedy, #NFDB
879:I don't know which is more telling about a soul, their laughter or their tears. I suspect the latter, but hope for the former, ~ Karen Hawkins, #NFDB
880:In life, you can choose to cry about the bullshit that happens to you or you can choose to laugh about it.
I choose laughter. ~ Kevin Hart,#NFDB
881:Once horrors take hold in the mind, they tend to clutch and linger, and it takes waves and waves of laughter to wash them away. ~ Kevin Hearne, #NFDB
882:There are limits to the power of laughter and though I may hint at them from time to time, I do not propose to step over them. ~ Angela Carter, #NFDB
883:To move wild laughter in the throat of death?
It cannot be, it is impossible:
Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
884:You knew and you've been laughing at me.'
'No.'
'Standing by and shaking with laughter.'
'Standing by and loving you. ~ Alfred Bester,#NFDB
885:Laughter deriding others is only too often incense one burns at one’s own self-constructed altar, an altar one knows to be rickety. ~ Peter Gay, #NFDB
886:Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling. ~ Wavy Gravy, #NFDB
887:Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. ~ Nicole Krauss, #NFDB
888:What the fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.” *From ~ Claude M Bristol, #NFDB
889:Buckle your seatbelt. I haven’t driven something this big before.” The truck filled with his laughter. “I get that all the time. ~ Jennifer Foor, #NFDB
890:I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain. ~ Rashida Jones, #NFDB
891:I mean when you leave the balloons that you carry in your laughter behind on my ceiling, well, I like them better than flowers. ~ Sabrina Benaim, #NFDB
892:It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child. ~ Goldie, #NFDB
893:Loki was there. He drank too much of Aegir’s ale, drank himself beyond joy and laughter and trickery and into a brooding darkness. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
894:Pigmy Pouters', Malory replied. 'Feisty ones!' Gansey mouthed Blue at Adam. Adam let out a little wail of helpless laughter. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
895:Rose blanched but complied, earning laughter in return from Dimitri. “Rose Hathaway, notorious rebel, showing her maternal side. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
896:The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. ~ Virginia Woolf, #NFDB
897:What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis, #NFDB
898:Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears. ~ Rene Descartes, #NFDB
899:Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB
900:Laughter feels like our flotation device -- it won't pull us out of the storm, but it might carry us through, if we can just hang on. ~ Emery Lord, #NFDB
901:Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
902:Laughter is more sacred than prayer, dancing more spiritual than chanting mantras, loving existence more cosmic than going to a church. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
903:Laughter is the only thing that cuts trouble down to a size where you can talk to it. -- character Billy Clyde Puckett in Semi-Tough ~ Dan Jenkins, #NFDB
904:Laughter opens your heart and soothes your soul. No one should ever take life so seriously that they forget to laugh at themselves. ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
905:Pablo Neruda said laughter is the language of the soul.” (To which Bart replies, “I am familiar with the works of Pablo Neruda.”) ~ Alan Sepinwall, #NFDB
906:Bring the ex-Consort to me.” “Curran!” I backed away from the railing. “Curran, help!” Laughter exploded in the bedroom. Bastard. • ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
907:Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings JOY and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you. ~ Eileen Caddy, #NFDB
908:Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you. ~ Eileen Caddy, #NFDB
909:I do think laughter is the most important thing, and being able to see the funny side of nearly anything is a crucial, crucial thing. ~ Jeremy Vine, #NFDB
910:I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter. ~ Larry David, #NFDB
911:I want to die while you love me, While yet you hold me fair, While laughter lies upon my lips, And lights are in my hair. ~ Georgia Douglas Johnson, #NFDB
912:Life does not come with instructions on how to live, but it does come with trees, sunsets, smiles and laughter, so enjoy your day. ~ Debbie Shapiro, #NFDB
913:Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter. ~ George Gissing, #NFDB
914:She was laughing even as we kissed and kissed again. There is no better taste than this: someone else’s laughter in your mouth. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
915:So LEARN to laugh beyond yourselves! Lift up your hearts, ye good dancers, high! higher! And do not forget the good laughter! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
916:To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter. ~ P T Barnum, #NFDB
917:As soon as she set foot outside, she could hear the empty conversation and laughter resume. Like sounding brass and tinkling cymbals. ~ Laura Frantz, #NFDB
918:He saw the world more vividly than other people, and reacted to what he saw with laughter, horror, indignation, and sometimes sobs. ~ Claire Tomalin, #NFDB
919:It’s true that laughter really is cheap medicine. It’s a prescription anyone can afford. And best of all, you can fill it right now. ~ Steve Goodier, #NFDB
920:I want my people to laugh like a lion's roar. Then even laughter becomes a tremendous experience, because it is intelligence at its peak. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
921:Laughter opens your heart and soothes your soul. No one should ever take life so seriously that they forget to laugh at themselves. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
922:Maturity,” Bokonon tells us, “is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
923:Raistlin laughed until he thought he might have hurt something inside him. The laughter felt good. For a time, it banished the darkness. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
924:Son, don't mind what's missing. Count allthat's free: friendship, laughter, all thelove your heart can carry, and time -- count time. ~ Nikki Grimes, #NFDB
925:the boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance. ~ Mary Astor, #NFDB
926:Trotsky cut in: “‘Collective leadership’ is precisely when everyone hinders each other or everyone attacks each other.’ (Laughter). ~ Stephen Kotkin, #NFDB
927:Words have a knack of breeding more words, whereas laughter, a deafening, roaring laughter, has the knack of swallowing everything up. ~ R K Narayan, #NFDB
928:If you have a crazy pal who makes you go into peals of laughter, hold on to that friendship. Nurture it, cherish it. It is priceless. ~ Preeti Shenoy, #NFDB
929:I like subversive humor, freckles, women's knees and long hair, the laughter of playing children, and a girl running down the street. ~ Rene Magritte, #NFDB
930:Laughter opens your heart and soothes your soul. No one should ever take life so seriously that they forget to laugh at themselves’. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
931:Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told. ~ Harpo Marx, #NFDB
932:Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing. ~ Frida Kahlo, #NFDB
933:Nothing lasts, not forever. Not laughter, not lust, not even life itself. Not forever. Which is why we make the most of what we have. ~ Michael Dobbs, #NFDB
934:One must see how no attack is so feared as that of laughter... because more than any other this attack isolates the one attacked. ~ S ren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
935:There are lots of ways to bring joy, happiness, peace, laughter, hope and comfort into your life, and they cost absolutely nothing. ~ Sandra Magsamen, #NFDB
936:The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real prayer, gratitude. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
937:They are not long, the weeping and the laughter. Love and desire and hate; I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate. ~ Ernest Dowson, #NFDB
938:White sheets flapped in the breeze and roses tumbled like laughter along the ancient stone wall that hid her property from the road. ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
939:Courtiers were supposed to sound musical when they spoke, their laughter like a harp chord and their sneezes like notes on a flute, ~ Sarah Beth Durst, #NFDB
940:Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin, #NFDB
941:Laughter has many meanings here. We laugh when something is unpleasant. When we are afraid. When we are angry.” “Is it a kind of ~ Jan Philipp Sendker, #NFDB
942:Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart. ~ Allen Klein, #NFDB
943:They but appear a solemn People,— worshipping Laughter, rather, as a serious, indeed holy, Force in Nature, never to be invok'd idly. ~ Thomas Pynchon, #NFDB
944:...during her childhood Tita didn't distinguish between tears of laughter and tears of sorrow. For her, laughing was a form of crying. ~ Laura Esquivel, #NFDB
945:Folks don't fall from laughter to fear in that way when they're nervously strong, and nerves take their toll of the body in the end. ~ Elizabeth Goudge, #NFDB
946:Indeed, laughter may be the shortest distance between two brains, an unstoppable infectious spread that builds an instant social bond. ~ Daniel Goleman, #NFDB
947:Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win. ~ Joni Mitchell, #NFDB
948:Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter. ~ Longchenpa, #NFDB
949:The echo of her laughter is the second sunrise I awaken to each day, and at night I feel it is more than the stars looking down on me. ~ Jerry Spinelli, #NFDB
950:There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time! ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, #NFDB
951:Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino! ~ Hilaire Belloc, #NFDB
952:With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
953:Writer-director John Roecker's debut, Live Freaky! Die Freaky! will have you convulsing on the floor ... with nausea, laughter, or both. ~ John Roecker, #NFDB
954:Yes. The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny. ~ Mike Nichols, #NFDB
955:Even without the Grand Reclaimer bond, Helen, you are my heartbeat. My pulse. You are the fire in my blood and the laughter in my soul. ~ Alison Goodman, #NFDB
956:God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust? ~ Sylvia Plath, #NFDB
957:Nothing Sacred”: we forget at our ease, sometimes, and in the pleasure of shared laughter, just how noble and hard-won this motto can be. ♦ ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
958:Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. —Albert Einstein ~ William Paul Young, #NFDB
959:Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. ~ Aldous Huxley, #NFDB
960:And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
961:And so I laughed. The laughter bubbled up, irrepressible. I saw the path to happiness and to liberation at a glance. It was inside myself. ~ Alice Walker, #NFDB
962:An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
963:Doll, doll,' I called her. That's what she was. A magic doll. Laughter and infinite intellect and then the round-cheeked face, the bud mouth. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
964:Everybody go out, right now, go get married if you're not married," she said to laughter, "and we should be able to solve all these problems. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
965:Her smile, though, no, it was her laugh, a dusky, deep cascading laughter that caught the joy, implied and mocked the sorrow in every joy. ~ Lucia Berlin, #NFDB
966:I wanted to protect my professorial dignity and not lay myself open to laughter from the Americans, who when they do laugh, laugh raucously ~ Jules Verne, #NFDB
967:...methinks the older that one grows,
Inclines us more to laugh the scold, though laughter
Leaves us so doubly serious shortly after. ~ Lord Byron,#NFDB
968:Nothing lasts, not forever. Not laughter, not lust, not even life itself. Not forever. Which is why we make the most of what we have. Why ~ Michael Dobbs, #NFDB
969:there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home. ~ Jon McGregor, #NFDB
970:We believe elegance can be casual. We believe gracefulness can be compatible with fits of laughter. We believe in living a colorful life ~ Lilly Pulitzer, #NFDB
971:A church is in a bad way when it banishes laughter from the sanctuary and leaves it to the cabaret, the nightclub and the toastmasters. ~ Helmut Thielicke, #NFDB
972:I have the gift of laughter. I can make people laugh at will. In good times and in bad. And that I don't question. It was a gift from God. ~ Buddy Hackett, #NFDB
973:I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter. ~ Christopher Reeve, #NFDB
974:I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things. ~ Guillermo Diaz, #NFDB
975:Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at? ~ Fulke Greville 1st Baron Brooke, #NFDB
976:Maturity,” Bokonon
tells us, “is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless
laughter can be said to remedy anything. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,#NFDB
977:my 6 foot goddess makes me laugh the laughter of the mutilated who still need love... she has saved me from everything that is not here ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
978:Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world. ~ Arthur Smith, #NFDB
979:poor ain’t poor unless you name it so & kids prefer playing to counting so there was never much time to wallow in anything but laughter. ~ Clint Smith, #NFDB
980:There’s an Irish blessing that I think fits well here,” Kathleen said. “May love and laughter light your days, and warm your heart and home. ~ Julie James, #NFDB
981:The touched heart madly stirs,
your laughter is water hurrying over pebbles -
every gesture is a proclamation,
every sound is speech... ~ Sappho,#NFDB
982:This isn't dancing the way I saw it done back home, all abandon and laughter and loose limbs. This is a kind of clockwork, technical thing. ~ Natasha Ngan, #NFDB
983:What is this?” Hendrix demanded next to me. “A pool noodle?” I looked over at the long foam purple noodle and burst into more laughter. ~ Rachel Higginson, #NFDB
984:If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed. ~ Nicolas Chamfort, #NFDB
985:In Sevigny, there was something so deep and so dangerous that it could barely be felt. But there was no music. And there was no laughter. ~ Dorothy Dunnett, #NFDB
986:Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote. ~ G I Gurdjieff, #NFDB
987:Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair. ~ Federico Fellini, #NFDB
988:Sitting there on the bus as it crossed the river and traipsed out through the dreary purlieus of Kennington, the giggling turned to laughter. ~ Simon Mawer, #NFDB
989:Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter. ~ James Earl Jones, #NFDB
990:There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding. ~ William McIlvanney, #NFDB
991:Amidst all your cries and laughter let your mind take a moment off, and go still. Look at this moment, this moment alone, and go still. ~ Swami Veda Bharati, #NFDB
992:A similar sound, especially light, tremulous speech or laughter.” This is it, he thought. “Agitation or excitement; flutter.” A verb. Twitter. ~ Nick Bilton, #NFDB
993:He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making Emma Morley laugh. ~ David Nicholls, #NFDB
994:Humans are designed to be with other humans, even those with mixed blood. They need each other's laughter. They require each other's sorrows. ~ Kathi Appelt, #NFDB
995:I once stirred thunder in the skies, And now, unlike the days of yore - Just tears in a drunken poet’s eyes And laughter - from some whore. ~ Alexander Blok, #NFDB
996:Switch on and keep on in yourself the cheerful buttons... Those marked Joy, Laughter, Happiness, Love, Passion for life, Gratitude for life. ~ Robert Muller, #NFDB
997:What use was utopia without joy, after all? What was the point of all their striving if it did not include the laughter of the young? ~ Kim Stanley Robinson, #NFDB
998:And yet methinks the older that one grows
Inclines us more to laugh than scold, though laughter
Leaves us so doubly serious shortly after. ~ Lord Byron,#NFDB
999:He who understands philosophy understands laughter. That mysterious Word at the beginning, mentioned in the Bible, is a divine guffaw. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky, #NFDB
1000:I think laughter is crucial. Some of the original cultures, like the Dalit and the Native American, don't separate laughter and seriousness. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
1001:Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you.
I'd rather write about laughing than crying,
For laughter makes men human, and courageous. ~ Fran ois Rabelais,#NFDB
1002:The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1003:we shall never again hear the laughter of our friend, that this garden is forever locked against us. And at that moment begins our true grief. ~ Lauren Groff, #NFDB
1004:But a child's joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son's laughter began to her heart, a feat she had never believed possible ~ Adriana Trigiani, #NFDB
1005:Danneskjold smiled. It was a smile of radiant amusement, the silent laughter of a clear, young spirit greeting a moment it was glad to have lived. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1006:Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn’t in time. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
1007:side with his head up in the air and his eyes full of laughter walked as strongly and steadily as any boy in Yorkshire—Master Colin. ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett, #NFDB
1008:Time howled in my ear, screaming with laughter at the idea that we could control it with wristwatches, alarm clocks, revolutions, history. ~ Viet Thanh Nguyen, #NFDB
1009:You know how I always say that laughter is carbonated holiness? Well, Robin was the ultimate proof of that, and bubbles are spirit made visible. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
1010:Aren’t those vegetables sexy, Rog?” Grant cooed, trying to hold in laughter. “Sexy, sexy veggies. You two need to go on lots of dates together. ~ Jennifer Lane, #NFDB
1011:However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary. ~ Henri Bergson, #NFDB
1012:Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
1013:Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth. And laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death. And sometimes, it isn't in time. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
1014:Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations. ~ Norman Cousins, #NFDB
1015:Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother ~ Barbara Johnson, #NFDB
1016:One was tired of everything, it seemed. One launched into enthusiasms only to collapse gracefully, and pick oneself up amid sympathetic laughter. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
1017:Only three things are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since we can do nothing with the first two, we must do what we can with the third. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
1018:Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature. ~ Petronius, #NFDB
1019:Parenting is a gift for adults’ spiritual growth spurts, and it’s a challenge to think of anything else that fills a home with more laughter! ~ Gabriel Cousens, #NFDB
1020:Spirituality does not have to be serious. You are spirituality. Fun laughter heal you faster than anything. Introduce fun back into your life. ~ Anita Moorjani, #NFDB
1021:Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile. ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB
1022:I can feel them, can hear the rush of hundreds of feet, can hear old laughter running underneath the birdsong: a place built of memory and echo. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
1023:I have two lovely parents who support everything I do, two siblings, and three beautiful nieces. My house is always filled with laughter and fun! ~ Ariel Winter, #NFDB
1024:I like to play different ranges. When you get really deeply involved in the emotional parts, I enjoy that just as much as the fun and laughter. ~ Melissa George, #NFDB
1025:It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
1026:I want to find myself a girl who can show me what laughter means, and we'll fill in the missing numbers in each others paint-by-numbers dreams. ~ Jackson Browne, #NFDB
1027:I wish I'd never been an actor. I'd rather have been a streetwalker, selling my body, than selling my tears and my laughter, my grief and my joy. ~ Klaus Kinski, #NFDB
1028:Laugh at tyrants and the tragedy they inflict. Such men welcome our tears as evidence of subservience, but our laughter condemns them to ignominy. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
1029:Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead. ~ Dwight D Eisenhower, #NFDB
1030:One night I was preaching on hell and laughter just hit the whole place. The more I told people what hell was like the more they laughed. ~ Rodney Howard Browne, #NFDB
1031:So they layered cynicism atop their longing, and it was something like laying laughter over the darkness — self-preservation of an uglier stripe. ~ Laini Taylor, #NFDB
1032:The beauty of the world . . . has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. —Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own ~ Scott Westerfeld, #NFDB
1033:The frog will have no idea this confused gentleman is actually a day game pro she is going to fuck in just a week’s time [insert diabolical laughter]. ~ Roosh V, #NFDB
1034:Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine,
There’s always laughter and good red wine.
At least I’ve always found it so.
Benedicamus Domino! ~ Hilaire Belloc,#NFDB
1035:And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously. ~ Antoine de Saint Exupery, #NFDB
1036:And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
1037:From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings. ~ Helen Hayes, #NFDB
1038:I learned early in life that laughter is a great way to diffuse and uncomfortable situation, so I began to use that as a tool, throughout my life. ~ Romany Malco, #NFDB
1039:I like a quiet evening with family or friends over, great food and great discussion and a lot of laughter. That's really what I think fills my tank. ~ Anna Eshoo, #NFDB
1040:Larry broke my morose train of thought with his laughter. "Welcome to America," he said, "where even our zombie epidemic has an obesity epidemic. ~ Ian McClellan, #NFDB
1041:Love me, and I will laugh for you, and if you can make me laugh, my laughter will, quite simply, ransom the whole of the world from death. ~ Catherynne M Valente, #NFDB
1042:Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
1043:Researchers believe laughter may in fact be a release valve when we experience the discomfort and excitement of uncertainty, but without fear of harm. ~ Nir Eyal, #NFDB
1044:She laughs, and her laughter is rich and full, deeper and bolder than her speaking voice. I want to wrap myself in her laugh and wear it as a scarf. ~ Dalya Moon, #NFDB
1045:the laughter of the mutilated who still need love, and her blessed eyes run deep into her head like mountain springs far in and cool and good. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1046:A herd of laughing kids zipped by the passenger-side window on Roller-blades. I hoped they never went from laughter to heartache as quickly as I had. ~ Dia Reeves, #NFDB
1047:God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity. ~ Mark Buchanan, #NFDB
1048:I think one of the best and noblest things about being a human being is that we can find laughter anywhere. We just sometimes forget to look. ~ Jordan Sonnenblick, #NFDB
1049:Laughter and tears are not separate experiences, with intervals of rest: they rush out together and it is like walking with a sword between your legs. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
1050:Laughter was like a fresh breeze - it cleaned its way through the body making everything feel good. Did other species have such a simple healer? ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
1051:Look on the bright side... " David said.
I waited. Then he roared with laughter.
"What?"
"I can't think of anything."
"Asshole. ~ Kimberly Sabatini,#NFDB
1052:Seriousness is equated with responsibility, when, in fact, I think we would be much more responsible if we had more joy and laughter in our lives. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1053:The tapestry of her life was a work of art created not with a needle but with duty, courage, and honor, sprinkled liberally with laughter and hope. ~ Karen Ranney, #NFDB
1054:uryam ugrata yuddhalipsattahasya - heroism, impetuosity, the urge towards battle, loud laughter (the attributes of Mahakali)
~ Sri Aurobindo, Glossary of terms,#NFDB
1055:Echoing off the tile walls, the sizzle-splash of the falling water sounded like the hissing of serpents and the brittle laughter of strange children. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
1056:I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor. ~ Katie Price, #NFDB
1057:I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that. ~ Ellen DeGeneres, #NFDB
1058:I think we will never find ultimate happiness. But I see a world of peace, harmony, laughter, love and non-violence and the elimination of poverty. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1059:Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn’t in time.” Her ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
1060:Seeing his somber face light up, I shouted, “Come now, we’re very wrong to corrupt such a man, forcing him to join us in the misery of laughter!” Toil ~ Xenophon, #NFDB
1061:Squeals of laughter erupted from the women in the parlor as Rasputin squeezed their breasts. “I can measure your spirit this way,” he explained. ~ Gwendolyn Womack, #NFDB
1062:You just need a little recharge on my docking station.” Our eyes meet. Time stands still for one perfect second. Then we both explode with laughter. ~ Sarina Bowen, #NFDB
1063:All the day I held the memory of you, and wove
Its laughter with the dancing light o' the spray,
And sowed the sky with tiny clouds of love... ~ Rupert Brooke,#NFDB
1064:Even Felicity can't keep from sputtering with laughter. I wish I could use my evil eye. Or at least my evil boot right smack against Cecily’s backside. ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB
1065:Haven't you ever thought how futile and ludicrous life is sometimes, and that if you don't take refuge in laughter you'll end up in a far worse place? ~ Erica James, #NFDB
1066:If somebody had said last week that I'd be in... involved... with a human, I'd have knocked his head off. I mean, after howls of derisive laughter. But. ~ L J Smith, #NFDB
1067:It was laughter that might have been squeezed from the tubes of his own darkest heart, then amplified fifty times through the bellows of a loon's ass. ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
1068:Now could thou and I rob the thieves and go merrily to London, it would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest forever. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1069:Quit acting like everything is so serious. Most situations aren’t as bad as you fear, and those that are might benefit from a little laughter. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
1070:The cost of a loaf is a simple thing, and so a loaf is often sought, but some things are past valuing: laughter, land, and love are never bought. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
1071:we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
1072:When you meet someone, you can silently send them a blessing, wishing them happiness, joy and laughter. This kind of silent giving is very powerful. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1073:From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends. ~ Hilaire Belloc, #NFDB
1074:His laughter bellowed throughout the house, and he patted my hand. “You’ve met my sons, Abby. You should know it’s damn near impossible to offend me. ~ Jamie McGuire, #NFDB
1075:It dawned on me then that as long as I could laugh, I was safe from the world; and I have learned since that laughter keeps me safe from myself, too. ~ Jimmy Durante, #NFDB
1076:You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman--a devil! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1077:Your laughter is like cool water to me,' I said. I felt my heart sob at these words, and it would not have been hard to summon tears: Strange. (137) ~ Patrick deWitt, #NFDB
1078:As Wendy watched them they burst into a chord of tinkling, girlish laughter. She felt a smile touch her own lips; not one of them could be under sixty. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1079:conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
1080:I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater. ~ Estelle Parsons, #NFDB
1081:I believe passionately in edutainment—whether in front of a business audience, a classroom of students or a crowd of parishioners at church. Laughter ~ Paco Underhill, #NFDB
1082:I like to make people laugh, and I definitely think laughter is healing. It's one of my favorite thing to do, so I'm attracted to it for many reasons. ~ Kelly Stables, #NFDB
1083:Joy, love, freedom, happiness, laughter. That's what it is. And if you just experience joy sitting there and meditating for an hour, by golly, do that. If ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1084:Love without laughter can be grim and oppressive. Laughter without love can be derisive and venomous. Together they make for greatness of spirit. ~ Robert K Greenleaf, #NFDB
1085:She knows what it is to be sad and miserable, but those emotions are almost enjoyable. They throw moments of happiness and laughter into sharper relief. ~ Simon Mawer, #NFDB
1086:Sometimes when someone says something stupid, my friends and I just read the reviews out loud and collapse with laughter at the stupidity of it all. ~ Jamaica Kincaid, #NFDB
1087:They're Twin-like," Shaunee said. "Hilarious," Erin agreed. "Shut up!" Aphrodite and Stevie Rae said together, which made the Twins convulse into laughter. ~ P C Cast, #NFDB
1088:But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
1089:He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1090:His eyes widened and he quivered with howling laughter. "Oh my God! You're killing me! That's it. We have to be friends. I won't take no for an answer. ~ Jamie McGuire, #NFDB
1091:I fight back laughter.
“As you wish.”
"Did you really just Princess Bride me?”
“Did you really just use Princess Bride as a verb? ~ Elle Kennedy,#NFDB
1092:Laughter is the evidence that we're still here, the proof that our tragedies will not define us forever. Laughter is the language of the survivor. ~ Josh James Riebock, #NFDB
1093:Low gurgling laughter, as sweet As the swallow's song i' the South, And a ripple of dimples that, dancing, meet By the curves of a perfect mouth. ~ Paul Hamilton Hayne, #NFDB
1094:I obviously wanted to play for the Kansas City Royals. (Laughter) I also knew that was far-fetched. The truth is I don't really know what I wanted to do. ~ Josh Earnest, #NFDB
1095:Laughter is such a healthy exercise. Somebody is laughing - that's perfectly good exercise, join him. Somebody is being playful - if you have time, join him. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
1096:Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart. ~ Agnes Repplier, #NFDB
1097:Or maybe laughter was how they pushed painful memories out of their minds. Perhaps laughter was the only way they could keep from killing each other. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
1098:There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as well do all we can to save the latter. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
1099: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, #NFDB
1100:If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
1101:If there was one thing in life that one should wish for, it shouldn’t be great wealth — it should be to enjoy a life whether short or long spent in laughter. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1102:I greet you as guests and so will not crush the life from you and devour your souls with peals of laughter. No, instead, I will make some tea.’ Nimander ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
1103:It was irresistible, like they were being tickled themselves. Their eyes met across the table, and at that instant, Rachel’s laughter turned into a sob. ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
1104:This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1105:We filled our days with porch-step kisses, filled our ears with three-year-old laughter, and filled our hearts with love. Deep, soul-aching, desperate love. ~ Jay McLean, #NFDB
1106:What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since whatever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapors rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter. ~ Jack Vance, #NFDB
1107:You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1108:You’re the faggot.”
Dan huffed with a short stab of dry laughter. “Aye.” Raising his brows
above the shades. “And you?”
“I’m the opportunist. ~ Aleksandr Voinov,#NFDB
1109:Always, even on a solemn occasion like this, an undercurrent of laughter in her voice. She possessed a keen sense of the fundamental absurdity of life. ~ Leah Hager Cohen, #NFDB
1110:He saw her bright, fierce little face break into laughter when the crowd laughed. It was good. Laughter is good for the soul and all your interior works. ~ Paulette Jiles, #NFDB
1111:If laughter is the best medicine, I promise to continue to make you laugh as my wife and I work together with the National Kidney Foundation to save lives. ~ George Lopez, #NFDB
1112:Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently. ~ Gretchen Rubin, #NFDB
1113:Laughter, when out of place, mistimed, or bursting forth from a disordered state of feeling, may be the most terrible modulation of the human voice. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, #NFDB
1114:Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I'll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all. ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder, #NFDB
1115:There was no more yelling or calling out, but they could not contain the small snatches of laughter. They were only humans, playing in the snow, in a house ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
1116:This crown of the laughter, the rosary crown: to you, my brothers, I throw this crown! I pronounced laughter holy: you higher men, learn — to laugh! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1117:Why should you try to never have laughter again? Did you die? No, you are alive. So be alive! Laugh if you want to, cry if you must, let yourself feel. ~ Kim Vogel Sawyer, #NFDB
1118:Words never mean a thing if you don't know the lack of them,
or sounds,
or laughter,
and it's the small moments of silence I value the most. ~ Charlotte Eriksson,#NFDB
1119:And I knew that I could not bear the thought of never hearing that laughter any more. For me, it was like a spring of fresh water in the desert. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
1120:As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
1121:Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1122:For, ultimately, isn't all laughter only the echo of an original revolt against the almighty: a never-ending scream against the absurdity of our exile from him? ~ D P Watt, #NFDB
1123:From quiet homes and first beginning
Out to the undiscovered ends
There's nothing worth the wear of winning
But laughter and the love of friends. ~ Hilaire Belloc,#NFDB
1124:I wouldn't marry Giddon to save my life," Katsa said. "Not even to save yours."
"Well." Raffin's eyes were full of laughter. "I'd leave that part out. ~ Kristin Cashore,#NFDB
1125:Only a human being can say I’m sorry. Forgive me. This is part of our particularity. It is part of what makes us capable of tears, capable of laughter. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
1126:People like frequent laughter," answered Father Brown, "but I don't think they like a permanent smile. Cheerfulness without humour is a very trying thing. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
1127:Smiling novices. I can hear the music of your laughter of joy. Learn, my children, to be holy, for true holiness consists of doing God's work with a smile. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
1128:was dead
i came alive
i was tears
i became laughter
all because of love
when it arrived
my temporal life
from then on
changed to eternal ~ Rumi,#NFDB
1129:was when Beverly screamed, a high-pitched sound in the stillness. The vaulted dome overhead picked it up, and the echoes were like the laughter of banshees, ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1130:White Shoulders
Your white shoulders
I remember
And your shrug of laughter.
Low laughter
Shaken slow
From your white shoulders.
~ Carl Sandburg,#NFDB
1131:for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1132:for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1133:The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
1134:In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
1135:Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears. ~ Hippocrates, #NFDB
1136:Our laughter melds together, a sound I recognize from days gone by. In that moment, we're different from who we are now, but the same as we've aways been. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
1137:That was the problem, she no longer knew what she wanted. (Shrouded in grief and lost dreams, her joy had vanished, the same way laughter and singing had.) ~ Debbie Macomber, #NFDB
1138:The curt maneuver forced hearty laughter from all of the fathers in the ballroom, who were delighted by the illusion of danger and the impotence of Nature. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
1139:They're Twin-like," Shaunee said.
"Hilarious," Erin agreed.
"Shut up!" Aphrodite and Stevie Rae said together, which made the Twins convulse into laughter. ~ P C Cast,#NFDB
1140:They were not prepared,” the guard chuckled. Alburet glanced at the guard’s name and suppressed his laughter, “Sums it up pretty well, Illider Snowhater. ~ Daniel Schinhofen, #NFDB
1141:To become balanced, meditate on the heart center in the center of the chest. There you will experience happiness, refinement, sensitivity, beauty, laughter. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1142:-we wish you-"
"-a tale-"
"-worth telling."
"Not luck?" asked Vikram.
The gate heaved with wet laughter.
"-what good is-"
"-such a thing. ~ Roshani Chokshi,#NFDB
1143:And somewhere in between then and now irony slipped its way into my vocabulary. Laughter became the antidote for guilt. Sacrifice grew to be a Band-Aid for shame. ~ Sarah Kay, #NFDB
1144:Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB
1145:From quiet homes and first beginning,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth the wear of winning,
But laughter and the love of friends. ~ Hilaire Belloc,#NFDB
1146:From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.” —Helen Hayes ~ Robin Kaye, #NFDB
1147:In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing they burst into laughter ~ Longchenpa, #NFDB
1148:She remembered the godswood, drooping branches heavy with moisture, and the sound of her brother’s laughter as he chased her through piles of damp leaves. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
1149:The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't. ~ Lenny Bruce, #NFDB
1150:To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination. ~ Vince Lombardi, #NFDB
1151:When people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work. Kill the grimness with laughter. Encourage exuberance. Get rid of sad dogs that spread gloom. ~ David Ogilvy, #NFDB
1152:Day full-blown and splendid-day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter, The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness. ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
1153:English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1154:He laughed and I did too, it was funny and horribly painful and deeply aching all at once. Like the laughter echoed and because of that you knew you were hollow. ~ Audrey Bell, #NFDB
1155:He would say: “You treat me as if I were just anybody.” She would roar with the laughter of a free female and say: “Not at all: as if you were nobody. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
1156:If you become silent after your laughter, one day you will hear God also laughing, you will hear the whole existence laughing - trees and stones and stars with you. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
1157:I think what's difficult is proving to people that a script actually does work and sometimes the laughter might not be on the page, it might be between the lines. ~ Alice Lowe, #NFDB
1158:Oh! That is funny.' And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter which annoyed me no end. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
1159:The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't. ~ Lenny Bruce, #NFDB
1160:There is a quality about women who choose
men sparingly;
it appears in their walk
in their eyes
in their laughter and in their
gentle hearts. ~ Charles Bukowski,#NFDB
1161:With Kennedy, I was anchored. She filled all the lonely spaces inside of me with her laughter, with her wry and witty humor, with everything we had in common. ~ Lauren Blakely, #NFDB
1162:Consistently practice love and everything that falls under the category of love: gratitude, laughter, friendship, joy, forgiveness, acceptance, peace, and trust. ~ Renee Marino, #NFDB
1163:Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter. ~ Elie Wiesel, #NFDB
1164:He strolled out onto the wide, semidark veranda, where couples were scattered at tables, filling the lantern-hung night with vague words and hazy laughter. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1165:I circle your hands, I circle your heart. I mark with my brand, while we’re apart. I sparkle in both your joy and laughter, because I’m part of you ever after. ~ Elizabeth Marx, #NFDB
1166:Parenting is a crucible, filled with tears and anxiety and laughter. It will pierce your soul. And it will heal you. It is all those things. And more. That's love. ~ Josh Shipp, #NFDB
1167:That's the chief lesson I have learned: the texture of our universe is one where there is no question at all but that good and laughter and justice will prevail. ~ Desmond Tutu, #NFDB
1168:The beauty of the world…has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
—Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (part 3, Pretties) ~ Scott Westerfeld,#NFDB
1169:There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker. ~ Nikolai Gogol, #NFDB
1170:Can't you ever stop joking?"
"No, why should I? Laughter is one of the two things that make life worthwhile. Aren't you going to ask what the other one is? ~ Elizabeth Peters,#NFDB
1171:Everything about you matters: the breath you breathe, the tears you cry, the smiles you give, the sound of your laughter, how your mind thinks, the values you hold dear. ~ Tijan, #NFDB
1172:If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter and bread with only the scent of jam spread on top of it. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
1173:Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease. ~ Norman Cousins, #NFDB
1174:Maturity...is knowing what your limitations are...Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
1175:Oh!” Celeste clapped her hand to her mouth, stifling laughter. “Matt said a bad word!” “I said titillating, not tit.” “Now you said a bad word!” Celeste squealed. ~ Jessica Park, #NFDB
1176:Say the following to nearly anyone and watch the reaction: “We really need to do something about the problem of white crime.” Laughter is a likely response. ~ Michelle Alexander, #NFDB
1177:Any philosophical and theoretical assurance that laughter is unique to the human being becomes somewhat unsure when one turns to the anthropological literature. ~ Simon Critchley, #NFDB
1178:He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
1179:I half expected you to snap your fingers and finish that sentence with evil laughter and maybe something like… and when I take over the world all will be mine. ~ Rachel Van Dyken, #NFDB
1180:Is the cannon strapped to your thigh coming out next? Or are we saving that for when we're alone?" She lifted her eyebrows as Alek and Quan roared with laughter. ~ Nancy Haviland, #NFDB
1181:Leeli looked confused, and Podo swept her up to sniffle around her chin and shoulders like a dog. She squealed with delight and everyone joined in the laughter. ~ Andrew Peterson, #NFDB
1182:So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that you have the wisdon to make them last. ~ Sherwood Smith, #NFDB
1183:bellowed with laughter until the tears ran down her cheeks, and the man with the black moustache shivered with fear. Mrs. Wiggins was very fond of a joke. Pretty ~ Walter R Brooks, #NFDB
1184:But the main thing I had to do in 1928 was watch my step. Play along with the farce. Brush my teeth. Comb my hair. At all costs, stifle my natural hideous laughter. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
1185:He prayed for clear skies and discovery, for danger and heartache and laughter, for a life beyond fear, a life that got bigger, really got bigger, as it receded. ~ Jonathan Evison, #NFDB
1186:I'm not such a bad fighter myself," Skye said. Po exploded with laughter. "Oh, fight him, Katsa. Please fight him. I can't imagine a more entertaining diversion. ~ Kristin Cashore, #NFDB
1187:It comes over us that we shall never again hear the laughter of our friend, that this garden is forever locked against us. And at that moment begins our true grief. ~ Lauren Groff, #NFDB
1188:It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body. ~ Allen Klein, #NFDB
1189:More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure.' But that's the truth. ~ Bob Newhart, #NFDB
1190:my 6 foot goddess
makes me laugh
the laughter of the mutilated
who still need
love...
she has saved me
from everything that is
not here ~ Charles Bukowski,#NFDB
1191:Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter. ~ Max Beerbohm, #NFDB
1192:The first person I learned I could make happy with laughter was my mother, whom I idolize. It was a powerful thing to realize. I knew I had found my life's work. ~ Ellen DeGeneres, #NFDB
1193:You're so beautiful," he told her.
Her laughter tickled his ears. "You realize you're looking at my back, right?"
"Mmm-hmmm. And it's a very beautiful back. ~ Elle Kennedy,#NFDB
1194:All three of them looked at each other then burst out laughing, the tension from the unknown dissolving away. Tears leaked from their eyes as their laughter grew. ~ Carrie Ann Ryan, #NFDB
1195:For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking. ~ Lady Bird Johnson, #NFDB
1196:He sincerely was beautiful.His smile,his wit,his friendliness and ease,his laughter-they all exuded such beauty.How could one look at him and not think him wonderful? ~ Jenni James, #NFDB
1197:In the experience of yogis who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing that they burst into laughter. ~ Longchenpa, #NFDB
1198:Now, if laughter is proper to the human being, then the human being who does not laugh invites the charge of inhumanity, or at least makes us somewhat suspicious. ~ Simon Critchley, #NFDB
1199:Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing? ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
1200:Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing? ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
1201:I am beginning to remember what it means to need things. Laughter. Companionship. Love. "
He leant forward and pressed his forehead to mine. "And I need you, Merit. ~ Chloe Neill,#NFDB
1202:I relish my life. It’s the one I have. It’s difficult, beautiful, painful, full of laughter, passing strange. Whatever else it is, whatever it brings – it’s mine. ~ Marya Hornbacher, #NFDB
1203:Laughter is sweet when enjoyed alone. But it becomes sweeter when you enjoy it together with the people around you. Your success must lead to the success others. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1204:Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
1205:Slowly, Rupert Greeves raised his head. His eyelids fluttered and the corner of his mouth twitched up.
'What,' he asked the world, 'can you do to erase my laughter? ~ N D Wilson,#NFDB
1206:Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. ~ Bill Cosby, #NFDB
1207:Was he laughing at me? Was I so pathetic that the thought that not only getting caught, but being humiliated with laughter was appropriate punishment for my lameness? ~ Shelly Crane, #NFDB
1208:But sorrow can also be contagious. Fear is different. It isn't as communicable as laughter or sadness, and a good thing too. Fear is almost entirely a lonely thing. ~ Jostein Gaarder, #NFDB
1209:Falls. He saw her bright, fierce little face break into laughter when the crowd laughed. It was good. Laughter is good for the soul and all your interior works. THAT ~ Paulette Jiles, #NFDB
1210:For the brief moments the song lasted, it was pure joy, stirred up from deep within, in that place not a soul can find, not until it comes alive with music and laughter. ~ Ben Galley, #NFDB
1211:It is all around us, free, this wonderful life: clear jingle of tire chains, the laughter of ice that breaks under our boots. Each hour’s a gift to those who take it up. ~ Ted Kooser, #NFDB
1212:I was also thinking about right here and now, surrounded by you, my friends, and Ava – how laughter in the moment fosters hope, conveys happiness, and inspires love. ~ Heather Bowhay, #NFDB
1213:Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion; both are ~ Arthur Koestler, #NFDB
1214:Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
1215:Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
1216:She bursts into laughter. I can tell she wasn’t expecting me to say that. But I’m so glad I did. Hearing her laugh is like listening to the best kind of symphony. ~ Michelle Leighton, #NFDB
1217:That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
1218:There are a few activities which are immensely valuable: laughter is one of these activities. Singing, dancing, are also of the same quality, but laughter is the quickest. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
1219:They both began to giggle and then they fell into a side splitting round of laughter, the cleansing, complete sort of laughter only a mother and daughter can share. ~ Karen Kingsbury, #NFDB
1220:We watched each other in the candlelight and suave music, and because laughter was the only weapon we had, we laughed until the chill of his story faded, and was gone. ~ Lauren Groff, #NFDB
1221:Yeah, I'm going. Just as long as Kayden will give me a ride."
He covers his mouth with his hand to muffle his laughter. "I bet he would love to give you a ride. ~ Jessica Sorensen,#NFDB
1222:I think that laughter and smiling are some of the best antidotes to ageing that you could possibly have. In general, I pretty much think of myself as still being about 5. ~ Demi Moore, #NFDB
1223:This is a nonstop flight to New York. Thank you for flying Cuelebre Airlines.
"You're not funny!" she screamed out loud. Dragon laughter filled her head. ~ Thea Harrison,#NFDB
1224:Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
1225:Now,young lady,I suppose you're here for a work assignment."
Work?" Tally said.
They both looked down at her puzzled expression, and Shay burst into laughter. ~ Scott Westerfeld,#NFDB
1226:There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
1227:We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
1228:You lost your heart, your memories, your laughter, your brain and it even took your bones. Eventually it all came back, but different. Rearranged. ‘Had you known Madame ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
1229:Baby, after considerable thought I've reached the conclusion that the only conceivable legitimate answer to the Universe as constituted is a peal of hysterical laughter. ~ Keith Laumer, #NFDB
1230:Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant. ~ Washington Irving, #NFDB
1231:I have to listen to my heart," Helen said quietly.
That elicited a bitter scrape of laughter, "The downfall of every woman since Eve has begun with those exact words. ~ Lisa Kleypas,#NFDB
1232:In New York the acoustics are good for laughter, for life is all external, all action, no thought, no meditation, no dreaming, no reflection, only the exuberance of action. ~ Anais Nin, #NFDB
1233:I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that. ~ Linda Ellerbee, #NFDB
1234:Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter, and love. The ~ Mark Helprin, #NFDB
1235:Laughter--an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features, and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious, and though intermittent, incurable. ~ Ambrose Bierce, #NFDB
1236:One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
1237:Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
1238:Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon, #NFDB
1239:People can laugh at you, it will do them good—laughter is always a medicine, healthful. People can think you are mad … just because they think you are mad, you don’t become mad. ~ Osho, #NFDB
1240:A wise person laughs and smiles through the eyes. . . . The smile and laughter through the eyes influence people tremendously. No energy leaks if you smile through the eyes. ~ Sivananda, #NFDB
1241:Earlier today, we got a call from Stephen Hawking. He's a genius, and after 6,028 shows he ran the numbers and he said it works out to about eight minutes of laughter. ~ David Letterman, #NFDB
1242:I have suckled the wolf's lip of anger and I have used it for illumination, laughter, protection, fire in places where there was no light, no food, no sisters, no quarter. ~ Audre Lorde, #NFDB
1243:It wasn't that funny, but I laughed. There wouldn't be much laughter in the world if people didn't like each other, because there sure as shit aren't that many good jokes. ~ John Barnes, #NFDB
1244:Laughter in the face of certain death? It is the very definition of the Hero," said the White Queen. "The Jabberwock knew it and therefore could no longer move against you. ~ Jane Yolen, #NFDB
1245:Now I am in control!" He followed this statement with a burst of laughter that showed the owner had done a fair share of gloating in his time, and had the basics down pat. ~ Phil Foglio, #NFDB
1246:One of the greatest gifts to mankind is laughter, and one of the greatest gifts to laughter is Lucille Ball. God has her now but thanks to television, we'll have her forever. ~ Bob Hope, #NFDB
1247:One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
1248:What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores and hollows, for the time given. ~ Alice Munro, #NFDB
1249:Charles’ conversation was as flat as a street pavement, on which everybody’s ideas trudged past, in their workaday dress, provoking no emotion, no laughter, no dreams. ~ Gustave Flaubert, #NFDB
1250:I love the sounds of the French Quarter on mild nights…laughter, chatter, gaiety, Dixieland jazz drifting out of open doors, rock music pounding somewhere—an eternal carouse. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
1251:Rows and rows of books lined the shelves...full of ideas and images, worlds imagined, worlds perceived; full of fingerprints and sudden laughter and the sighs of readers... ~ Kim Edwards, #NFDB
1252:We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
1253:What are you thinking?” I ask her, curious. “That I should have done that years ago,” she says, a dreamy expression on her face. My bark of laughter echoes loud in the cave. ~ Ruby Dixon, #NFDB
1254:You have to know languages when you go to sell something,” she said with mocking laughter. “But when you go to buy, everyone does what he must to understand you. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
1255:FRANK TALK, SPIRITED debate, laughter, and love. If I could distill a Braintrust meeting down to its most essential ingredients, those four things would surely be among them. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
1256:Her receding laughter sounded so comforting, so alluring to my senses that I could hardly control myself from reaching out to her and telling her what I felt there and then! ~ Faraaz Kazi, #NFDB
1257:Hey, uh, Caleb?” “Yep?” “Is that your dick poking me or your phone?” He presses his lips together, trying his hardest to hold in his laughter. “That would be my dick, Zoe. ~ Teagan Hunter, #NFDB
1258:I eliminated duality with joyous laughter
Saw the unity of here and the hereafter
Unity is what I sing, unity is what I speak
Unity is what I know, unity is what I seek ~ Rumi,#NFDB
1259:I never wanted the ha-ha-ha laughter [at my shows]. I always aimed for the gut. I always aimed for the pretty girls in the front row, laughing and leaning over and pooting. ~ Tracy Morgan, #NFDB
1260:It comes over us that we shall never again hear the laughter of our friend, that this garden is forever locked against us. And at that moment begins our true grief. Antoine ~ Lauren Groff, #NFDB
1261:My laughter won't last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn't perfect. And it isn't. It isn't perfectly good. But, it also isn't perfectly bad, either. ~ Yasmin Mogahed, #NFDB
1262:Olivia," he sighed as he held her tight against him. "I like the way you leap."
For once her laughter was free and easy. "And I like the way you catch me when I land. ~ Marie Force,#NFDB
1263:sibling laughter–he can hear it– not the laughter of school friends or neighbors or cousins. Something secret in that laughter, private, edged with meanness and devotion ~ Emily Ruskovich, #NFDB
1264:We're [as parents] striving for an unattainable, inauthentic shell, and ignoring the real nut, the gooey inside: love, laughter, and fulfillment from simple things. ~ Julie Lythcott Haims, #NFDB
1265:You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God. ~ Desmond Tutu, #NFDB
1266:A loud peel of laughter travels up my throat. Something out of the ordinary has finally happened, and it sends a spark of electricity directly to the dull lump in my chest. ~ Siobhan Davis, #NFDB
1267:And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can. ~ Laini Taylor, #NFDB
1268:And that’s how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can. ~ Laini Taylor, #NFDB
1269:He stopped his act to take a snapshot of that instant he would so treasure- her delightful laughter that could make him do anything, anything at all, in the world and beyond! ~ Faraaz Kazi, #NFDB
1270:I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation. ~ Christian Slater, #NFDB
1271:Perhaps the greatest magic of the human spirit is the ability to laugh, at ourselves, at each other, and at our sometimes hopeless situation. Laughter normalized our lives ~ Torey L Hayden, #NFDB
1272:The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge. ~ Georges Bataille, #NFDB
1273:The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy. ~ Siobhan Dowd, #NFDB
1274:...we were glad to have in our midst a sprinkling of fools, who, although only comparatively foolish, provided a touch of colour and some occasion for laughter and mockery. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
1275:But it’s scary how bad this could get,” Cheri said, her tone turning serious as their laughter ebbed. “When people start talking about flying coach and selling vacation homes… ~ Imbolo Mbue, #NFDB
1276:He looked so silly that I could not stop laughing, even as my tears kept flowing. Is the root of laughter also sorrow? As I laughed, I was filled with both joy and sorrow. ~ Kyung Sook Shin, #NFDB
1277:Here the narrator bursts into explosion after explosion of thunderous horse-laughter, repeating that nub from time to time through his gaspings and shriekings and suffocatings. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1278:He still looked so sad. Not a sign of the laughter that once used to be as much a part of his face as his black eyes. The smile he gave her now was only a sad shadow of it. ~ Cornelia Funke, #NFDB
1279:I really want a family … children. A female to love who will love me back. Hot, sexy nights and fun-filled days. I want the sound of children’s laughter to fill my home. ~ Charlene Hartnady, #NFDB
1280:I try to find a reason to laugh each day. Somehow, if you can incorporate laughter into your day, every day, it really helps. It's the little things in life that make me happy. ~ Faith Hill, #NFDB
1281:Most of my wrinkles are from laughter, except for these right between my eyebrows. These are my 'WTF' lines and those suckers are deep, all given to me by our family dinners. ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
1282:The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious black nationalists is fear masquerading as laughter. ~ Ta Nehisi Coates, #NFDB
1283:The world was old and ended: but you and I were gay;
Round us in antic order their crippled vices came—
Lust that had lost its laughter, fear that had lost its shame. ~ G K Chesterton,#NFDB
1284:This frequently represents fifty pounds,—let it represent for once something that is not valuable like money, —your soul, for example!" A burst of laughter broke from all the men. ~ Various, #NFDB
1285:Every moment, as it has passed, has changed something in them; Time has transformed the faces, voices, laughter. For Time is a murderer, and every moment is a little death,(...) ~ Klaus Mann, #NFDB
1286:For if you succeed in making this girl laugh, if you make her laughter ring in the air like a fountain of silver coins cascading to the floor, you will win her heart forever. ~ F lix J Palma, #NFDB
1287:Godlike the man who
sits at her side, who
watches and catches
that laughter
which (softly) tears me
to tatters: nothing is
left of me, each time
I see her... ~ Catullus,#NFDB
1288:Laughter is the ultimate emotion of openness. When you laugh, you release your fears, abandon your hatred and let down your guard to embrace the flow of the Universe. ~ Russell Anthony Gibbs, #NFDB
1289:lies behind stars and under the highest hills, And empty holes it solidly fills. It comes first and follows after, Ends life, and kills laughter. What is it? It is darkness. ~ C L Bevill, #NFDB
1290:Poetry
SHE comes like the hush and beauty of the night,
And sees too deep for laughter;
Her touch is a vibration and a light
From worlds before and after.
~ Edwin Markham,#NFDB
1291:True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. ~ Thomas Carlyle, #NFDB
1292:What I found in Kabul was a sisterhood unlike any I had seen before, marked by empathy, laughter, courage, curiosity about the world, and above all a passion for work. ~ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, #NFDB
1293:Being old isn’t easy. But at the end of our journey there is still laughter, kindness, forgiveness, friendship, love, and if you’re lucky, a dog to help with all that ails you. ~ Mark J Asher, #NFDB
1294:It looks good on you."
"Huh?"
"The uncontrolled laughter. It looks good. Even if I'm the butt of your joke. And for the record, I will not be reading porn to my mom. ~ Shannyn Schroeder,#NFDB
1295:Meditate upon all the perfect light within your own mind! Do this repeatedly and the radiant Bodhisattvas of Wisdom and Laughter will visit you and change your karma forever! ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1296:She [Nana] listened to his [Steiner's] propositions, turning them down every time with a shake of the head and that provocative laughter which is peculiar to full-bodied blondes. ~ mile Zola, #NFDB
1297:This is followed by laughter because we're in high school, which means we're predictable and almost everything is funny, especially if it's someone else's public humiliation. ~ Jennifer Niven, #NFDB
1298:A brittle crackling sounded ahead of them, then a peal of hearty laughter. “Badgers!” scoffed a booming voice with a heavy Spanish accent. “We don’t need no stinking badgers! ~ Chet Williamson, #NFDB
1299:Canada is lovely," she breathed against his lips. "And you are lovely."
His laughter ghosted into her mouth. "That's my line, Lyd. You are supposed to think me handsome ~ Meredith Duran,#NFDB
1300:Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer. ~ Ben Stein, #NFDB
1301:I love the theater because I love the live audience and when we went three cameras we have a live audience in the study so we had someone to play to and react to. That laughter. ~ Jack Klugman, #NFDB
1302:It was inevitable, of course, but somehow it didn't seem right to Alex that they would never remember the sound of Carly's laughter, or know how deeply she'd once loved them. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
1303:the memory of other laughter, and the unexpected ecstasies and physical joys that happen, perhaps, only once in any person’s lifetime. It was good. And nothing good is ever ~ Rosamunde Pilcher, #NFDB
1304:Time will mellow it, make it a moment for laughter. But now it was not funny, now I did not laugh. It was not the future, it was the present. It was too vivid and too real. ~ Daphne du Maurier, #NFDB
1305:Buck laughed, and
laughter,
when it's loud
and heavy
and aimed
at you,
I think
can feel just
as bad as
a bullet's
bang."
-Will ~ Jason Reynolds,#NFDB
1306:For some unexplained reason, it's always the other end of the table that's wild and raucous, with screaming laughter and a fella who plays 'Holiday for Strings' on water glasses. ~ Erma Bombeck, #NFDB
1307:Frederick Buechner brings the reader to his knees, sometimes in laughter, sometimes in an astonishment very close to prayer, and at the best of times in a combination of both. ~ Michael Mewshaw, #NFDB
1308:I forgot my purse of laughter when I dressed this mornin'," she told me. "Have you not bought anythin' the last few days? Prices have gone up. Pay or starve, it's all one to me. ~ Tamora Pierce, #NFDB
1309:Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present; laughter hath only a scornful tickling. ~ Philip Sidney, #NFDB
1310:Laughter is essential to our equilibrium, to our well-being, to our aliveness. If we're not well, laughter helps us get well. If we are well, laughter helps us stay that way. ~ Peter McWilliams, #NFDB
1311:Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
1312:Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.” Professor ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
1313: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. ~ Russell Baker, #NFDB
1314:The cold November sun sent weak rays onto the floor of the old house. The floor beneath snickered, trying hard to hold back snaps of bawdy laughter. The temperature dropped with ease. ~ J Thorn, #NFDB
1315:Their laughter would ring out abruptly, a sound Mother welcomed. “Our slaves are happy,” she would boast. It never occurred to her their gaiety wasn’t contentment, but survival. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
1316:The world is a projection of our collective consciousness. If our collective consciousness reaches that place of peace, harmony, laughter and love, it will be a different world. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1317:They stared at each other in the dark, frozen by the actual act as thought never could have done. Her very breath turned to glass in her throat. Then, inside, the laughter began. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1318:As a child I had been quiet and invisible when troubled; as an adult, I had hidden my mental illness behind an elaborate construction of laughter and work and dissembling. ~ Kay Redfield Jamison, #NFDB
1319:Do you know why men name their cocks?"
"No, why?" she asked, trying to stifle her laughter.
"So most of the major decisions in their lives won’t be made by a total stranger. ~ Linda Howard,#NFDB
1320:For the girl without words, there is laughter for what is light, gesture for want, and tears for all that is dark. There is not much more. Names are nothing but extravagance. ~ Lois Ann Yamanaka, #NFDB
1321:I hear laughter and someone asks if I need help, not in a nice way. I snarl, "What I need is for your mother to have thought a little harder nine months before your birthday. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
1322:I hear laughter and someone asks if I need help, not in a nice way. I snarl, 'What I need is for your mother to have thought a little harder nine months before your birthday. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
1323:It's laughter that lubricates our irritations, that releases our tensions, that feeds our joy… it’s the laughter that helps keep things warm and joyful even in the midst of pain. ~ Emilie Barnes, #NFDB
1324:Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. ~ Thomas Hobbes, #NFDB
1325:Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us laugh is a mystery - an involuntary response. ~ Dennis Miller, #NFDB
1326:Laughter tumbled from the bunk above. “Who needs groupies when I can listen to you two every night? Can you pass me a sock or something? I just spewed down my leg.”
Fucking Laz. ~ Pam Godwin,#NFDB
1327:Perhaps he was a wicked man, as Robert Falcon had said, but he had the saving grace of laughter, could even laugh at his own fatal predicament, and he had been so full of life. ~ Madeleine Brent, #NFDB
1328:Scream at the mangled leather carcass lying at the foot of the stairs, and my parents would roar with laughter. "That's what you get for leaving your wallet on the kitchen table. ~ David Sedaris, #NFDB
1329:she appeared in a dashing fur coat and very high heels, with a bottle of bootleg whiskey in a brown paper bag from which she drank all during the meeting, erupting into wild laughter ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
1330:Sometimes when you miss a person, you can only focus on how sad you feel that they are gone. Other times, it's best to focus on the memories that bring you joy and laughter. ~ Brittainy C Cherry, #NFDB
1331:Sometimes when you miss a person, you can only focus on how sad you feel that they are gone. Other times, it’s best to focus on the memories that bring you joy and laughter. ~ Brittainy C Cherry, #NFDB
1332:Suffocate me, Mia. Let me drown in your love and affection. Touch me. Shower me with your laughter. That’s all I’ve ever wanted. I need that from you. I just want to be close to you. ~ J S Scott, #NFDB
1333:The “laughter through tears of sorrow” that Pushkin noted elsewhere in his work is precisely laughter. The images it produces are too deeply ambiguous to bear any social message. ~ Nikolai Gogol, #NFDB
1334:Die, ShadowClan trespasser!” “Get off, you great lump!” Jayfeather protested, though there was laughter in his voice. Squirrelflight whipped around. “Honestly! How old are you both? ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
1335:humorous writing, the exclamation mark is the equivalent of canned laughter (F. Scott Fitzgerald – that well-known knockabout gag-man – said it was like laughing at your own jokes), ~ Lynne Truss, #NFDB
1336:I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with. ~ John Irving, #NFDB
1337:You didn’t just lose a loved one. You lost your heart, your memories, your laughter, your brain and it even took your bones. Eventually it all came back, but different. Rearranged. ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
1338:Your every emotion goes right over the top with a big audience. It's either laughter or tears, with no in-between. Those tigers in zoos, they must have a big opera all the time. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
1339:Can’t you just trust me, Prince Charming?” “I told you not to call me that.” “No… you told me not to call you Prince Derek.” Laughter was in her voice. “Will you just come with me? ~ Bella Forrest, #NFDB
1340:Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and urge us on to deeper and more complex forms of knowing. ~ Jean Houston, #NFDB
1341:Maniacal laughter was ringing in his ears ... he was happier than he had been in a very long time ... jubilant, ecstatic, triumphant ... a wonderful, wonderful thing had happened ... ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1342:No matter the gender or location, the students brought her joy and frustration, laughter and sometimes sorrow, but they gave her a worthy reason to get out of bed every morning. ~ Lawana Blackwell, #NFDB
1343:Our I love yous encompass years of heartache, of hurt, of laughter and pain. And every time we say the words, I feel the rush of our childhood. I couldn't imagine ever losing that. ~ Becca Ritchie, #NFDB
1344:Rebel tips his head back and laughs. I’ve never heard it before, his laughter. It sends electricity snapping through my torso, my arms, my legs, my head; it’s the most amazing sound. ~ Callie Hart, #NFDB
1345:Start and finish your day with laughter, and you will see, by and by, in between these two more and more laughter starts happening. And the more laughing you become, the more religious. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
1346:Such Small Things:
For a long time there were only your footprints & laughter in our dreams & even from such small things, we knew we could not wait to love you forever. ~ Brian Andreas,#NFDB
1347:Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. —Bill Cosby ~ Aleatha Romig, #NFDB
1348:You didn't just lose a loved one. You lost your heart, your memories, your laughter, your brain and it even took your bones. Eventually, it all came back, but different. Rearranged. ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
1349:America, my love, you are sunlight falling through trees. You are laughter that breaks through sadness. You are the breeze on a too-warm day. You are clarity in the midst of confusion. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
1350:Famous revolutionary,' you say, and the laughter pumps out of your chest like blood, great almost painful spurts of it splashing up the building faces toward the marquee moon. ~ Garth Risk Hallberg, #NFDB
1351:I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with "expressing" myself with obscure creative impressions. ~ Walt Disney, #NFDB
1352:I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well. ~ Celia Imrie, #NFDB
1353:The sound is clear and strong as a bell, and it fills me with joy, and it's like, for the first time in my life, I understand that this is the point of laughter, to spread happiness. ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
1354:Only Loki was not a fighter. Only Loki stood at the sides and laughed, a laughter more deadly to the self-important gods than any sword or spear. No wonder they had chained him. ~ M D Lachlan, #NFDB
1355:Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff. ~ Paul McCartney, #NFDB
1356:She tilted her head, considering the sensation. "It is strange."
He gave a hiss of laughter at the words. "It only gets stranger, darling. But we shall try for something more. ~ Sarah MacLean,#NFDB
1357:The jokes I used to do on 'Sex and the City' were always comic character things, and they were rarely hard jokes. As soon as you go up in front of people, it demands laughter. ~ Michael Patrick King, #NFDB
1358:Everything belonged to him. It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into prodigious peal of laughter that would shake the fixed stars in their places. ~ Joseph Conrad, #NFDB
1359:If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted. ~ Eric Idle, #NFDB
1360:Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings. ~ Aberjhani, #NFDB
1361:Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady, yet probably it does tend to dry one's feelings out a little, as if by exposing them to a vigorous wind. ~ Mary McCarthy, #NFDB
1362:Most of all, I remember her laughing. It filled my ears. Her smile, her sparkling eyes, and her infectious laughter, along with the vistas, were limitless and unending and powerful. ~ Sharon E Rainey, #NFDB
1363:One small boy jumps over a table, pulls his jumper and shirt up, and turns his back to us to show where shrapnel wounded him when he was three. His classmates shriek with laughter. ~ Richard Flanagan, #NFDB
1364:People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know when the joke is. ~ Marilyn Manson, #NFDB
1365:People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that let's you know when to laugh if you're to stupid to know when the joke is. ~ Marilyn Manson, #NFDB
1366:Think she could have told us we were going to fight the NFL?"
"Would that have stopped you?"
"No"
"Me either."
The laughter between the two of us echoed into the night. ~ Katie McGarry,#NFDB
1367:Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. —Bill Crosby ~ Aleatha Romig, #NFDB
1368:Time flies. Time flies faster every year. Time flies whether you're having fun or not, whether you're living your life big or small, whether you surround yourself with fear or laughter. ~ Claire Cook, #NFDB
1369:Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery, #NFDB
1370:We look before and after,
And pine for what is not;
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell
Of saddest thought. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley,#NFDB
1371:fools! whose pride
Absurd the gods permit a little space
To please their souls with laughter, then replace
In the loud limbo of futilities. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Lines on Ireland,#NFDB
1372:I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life. ~ Harland Williams, #NFDB
1373:Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
1374:One hand smothered her laughter in unconscious effort to keep from advertising our presence more than necessary. “It is too. Who’d have imagine big, bad Lucian Bane is afraid of spiders. ~ Lucian Bane, #NFDB
1375:The beauty of life is in its shades of light and dark, heartbreak and healing, joy and sadness, laughter and tears. Everything can't possibly be happy because then NOTHING would be happy. ~ Mandy Hale, #NFDB
1376:There is nothing better than giving up everything and stepping into a passionate love relationship with God, the God of the universe who made galaxies, leaves, laughter, and me and you. ~ Francis Chan, #NFDB
1377:The world is full of horrible things that will eventually get you and everything you care about. Laughter is a universal way to lift your head up and say: 'Not today, you bastards.' ~ Anthony Jeselnik, #NFDB
1378:When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track. ~ Weegee, #NFDB
1379:As a wolf, I’m a diamond in the rough. I crack jokes. My whole life is about trying, about speaking up in order to be seen, about howling with laughter or howling out how I see the world. ~ Jessi Klein, #NFDB
1380:It’s like what Teccam wrote, ‘The cost of a loaf is a simple thing, and so a loaf is often sought …’” “‘… but some things are past valuing: laughter, land, and love are never bought, ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
1381:Laughter heals all wounds, and that's one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you're going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing. ~ Kevin Hart, #NFDB
1382:Looking about to burst into laughter, he replied, “You have two male dogs in a pen which is wrapped in bright pink fishnet. They look like they’re strippers. They look like hookers, Nat! ~ Belle Aurora, #NFDB
1383:Rebecka laughs through her tears. There is almost too much laughter. It bubbles over because she has cried so much she has created an empty space, ready to be filled with another feeling. ~ sa Larsson, #NFDB
1384:There are tears. There's laughter. There's an unconscious thing happening between us as humans. There's so much about the brain that we don't understand. I believe everybody's empathic. ~ Nelly Furtado, #NFDB
1385:you've got to jiggle the knob hard then bump with your hip."
A low cackle of laughter sounded from the other side of the door. "That's what he said. What? Hold on a sec. I got this. ~ Louisa Edwards,#NFDB
1386:DEDICATION In memory of my dad, Nick Klist —with deepest gratitude for all the love, the courage, the laughter, and the wisdom of a lifetime. He lives in the hearts of those who loved him. ~ Susan Wiggs, #NFDB
1387:It had been worse when he realised he wanted all of her, the laughter he had destroyed, the unconscious pride and dignity he had trampled and the sweet, innocent passion he had shamed. ~ Elizabeth Rolls, #NFDB
1388:Snowball?"
It's white."
Meow."
It's so girly."
This from a guy who named his poodle Princess."
his laughter died. "How do you know about Princess?"
Your sister told me. ~ Rachel Gibson,#NFDB
1389:The house I was leaving was much unlike the one across town. It was smaller, cozier, filled with music and laughter and late-night confessions whispered quietly into beige cotton sheets. ~ Kandi Steiner, #NFDB
1390:The world might be vicious and treacherous and deadly, but it couldn’t kill laughter. Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
1391:When ypu awaken love and laughter in your life, your mind lets go of fear and anxiety, and your happy spirit becomes the healing balm that transforms every aspect of your human experience. ~ Jesse Dylan, #NFDB
1392:Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)] ~ Edmund Burke,#NFDB
1393:Yes, childish things, repetitions, laughter about nothing, useless things, absurdities, all that is deepest and most sublime in the world! The only things worth being said and listened to. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1394:A march of his greatness are the wheeling stars.
His laughter of beauty breaks out in green trees,
His moments of beauty triumph in a flower; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
1395:Favorite sexual position?”“My face. Between your legs.” My laughter choked off as heat flushed my cheeks. Right. Oral fixation. “Um…” I swallowed. “Isn’t that more of a foreplay position? ~ Jaine Diamond, #NFDB
1396:I find great happiness in my relationships with old friends, living mirrors that reflect histories of laughter and sorrow, triumphs and failures, births and deaths, on both sides. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg, #NFDB
1397:Sometimes I burst into tears because I feel the pains of this world.
Sometimes I burst into laughter because I feel the happiness of this world.
This is what being human feels like. ~ Susan Marie,#NFDB
1398:The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but in children it came from the shock of the new. ~ Elizabeth Hardwick, #NFDB
1399:Do you not like the Beatles?” Frank asked, sounding shocked, as we finished our cool-down and started walking back toward my house. “Do you also not like sunshine and laughter and puppies? ~ Morgan Matson, #NFDB
1400:Laughing at the universe liberated my life. I escape its weight by laughing. I refuse any intellectual translations of this laughter, since my slavery would commence from that point on. ~ Georges Bataille, #NFDB
1401:Laughing at the universe liberated my life. I escape its weight by laughing. I refuse any intellectual translations of this laughter, since my slavery would commrnce from that point on. ~ Georges Bataille, #NFDB
1402:Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so is there a laugh of terror and a laugh of merriment. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, #NFDB
1403:The only sound was Alvin’s snorts of laughter. “Dude, you’re the only one standing there! Who are you talking to, the vegetable dip?” he shouted before his grandmother shushed him. ~ Elizabeth Cody Kimmel, #NFDB
1404:They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man’s laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death,” Ned said evenly. “Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
1405:All dramatic realism is somewhat sadistic; an audience is persuaded to watch something that makes it uncomfortable and from which no relief is offered - no laughter, no tears, no purgation. ~ Mary McCarthy, #NFDB
1406:But the laughter was like a water bug on a pond, skating across the surface of his mind. He was amused and he laughed, but nothing was deeply funny; life was simply stupid most of the time. ~ John Sandford, #NFDB
1407:He tastes the honey of tears and puts off joy
Repenting, and has laughter and has wrath,
And both are a broken music of the soul ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#NFDB
1408:I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter. ~ Brenda Shaughnessy, #NFDB
1409:I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution. ~ Paul Lynde, #NFDB
1410:In classical Sanskrit poetry, the laughter of women is responsible for the blooming of plants, which is why women were invited to the royal gardens in spring to sing and dance and play. ~ Devdutt Pattanaik, #NFDB
1411:Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason. ~ Saint Basil, #NFDB
1412:It took two or three months more for me to discern little by little that here there was nothing to be dismissed with laughter, that behind the melancholic mask lay a terrible anguish. ~ Ry nosuke Akutagawa, #NFDB
1413:Laughter... is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1414:Day was a purple pageant and a hymn,
A wave of the laughter of light from morn to eve. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart’s Grief and Pain,#NFDB
1415:For a few minutes, they all forgot. There was no more yelling or calling out, but they could not contain the small snaches of laughter. They were only humans, playing in the snow, in a house. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
1416:I've often observed that men and women who were young children during these years [of defeat in war] have a certain seriousness about them; there was too little laughter in their childhoods. ~ Arthur Golden, #NFDB
1417:Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
1418:You have to free yourself from your mental conditioning through association with the holy, through doing good works, through meditating, through laughter, through love and through solitude. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1419:A large praying mantis was performing ablutions on the springy stem of the kid's cowlick. The gunslinger snorted laughter-the first in gods knew how long-and set the fire and went after water. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1420:Funyuns make you fart," Caspian said, and I explode in laughter. "Funyuns give you bad breath too. Not very attractive to the ladies." He paused. "On second thought, enjoy your Funyuns, Ben! ~ Jessica Verday, #NFDB
1421:Passion is what makes the world go round. Passion is what drives us to be better than we are. Passion is what makes our emotions - whether love or hate or laughter - ignite and blaze into life. ~ Lisa Mangum, #NFDB
1422:Somewhere in the world at that moment, there was a birth, a death, a sunrise, and a sunset. There was despair, and a burst of laughter, a promise broken, and a vow made. And there was this kiss. ~ Lydia Kang, #NFDB
1423:The best things in life are free. And it is important never to lose sight of that. So look around you. Wherever you see friendship, loyalty, laughter, and love...there is your treasure. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
1424:What is the modern mind?" asked Grant.
"Oh, it's enlightened, you know, and progressive --and faces the facts of life seriously." At this moment another roar of laughter came from within. ~ G K Chesterton,#NFDB
1425: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 sunburn." I said. ~ Audrey Couloumbis,#NFDB
1426:I don't remember what my favourite comedy film is - truthfully! I saw Borat and I thought I was not going to be able to get out of the theatre because I was in so much pain from the laughter. ~ Morgan Freeman, #NFDB
1427:Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
1428:That got some appreciative laughter, though he wasn’t joking, and the bird didn’t laugh. It didn’t answer him either. Quentin couldn’t read its face; like all birds, it had only one expression. ~ Lev Grossman, #NFDB
1429:The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
1430:The only person he told about his hunch was Monroe. He and Monroe had grown up together in Dorchester, playing in the streets when the summer made the asphalt breathe and their laughter bounced ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1431:The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
1432:We watched TV. I went home late. That’s what happened. Got it?” I fight back laughter. “As you wish.” “Did you really just Princess Bride me?” “Did you really just use Princess Bride as a verb? ~ Elle Kennedy, #NFDB
1433:After such knowledge, and given the persistence of racial violence and the unavailability of legal protection, I asked myself, what else was there to sustain our will to persevere but laughter? ~ Ralph Ellison, #NFDB
1434:Bay nodded. “I guess he’s not going to know if I don’t really say what’s on my mind.” Mel’s eyes danced with laughter. “I think that’s the thing with most men and women. They need to be told. ~ Carrie Ann Ryan, #NFDB
1435:Friends, you are lucky you can talk about what you did as lovers; the tricks, laughter, the words, the ecstasy. After my darling put his hand on the knot of my dress, I swear I remember nothing. ~ Vidya Balan, #NFDB
1436:Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. ~ Joan Lunden, #NFDB
1437:It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
1438:You don't think we're related?
What? Seth burst into laughter. No.
How can you be so sure? Because if we're pulling a Luke and Leia, I'm going to barf. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout,#NFDB
1439:Laughter spread around the room like an airborne disease. Disease. I shivered. That was the intriguing thought; I could almost hear the sound their bodies would make against the floor when it hit. ~ Anya Allyn, #NFDB
1440:The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom. When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies. Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face. ~ Malcolm De Chazal, #NFDB
1441:There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations. ~ Patrick Pearse, #NFDB
1442:The wild shouting, the laughter, and the singing with which they had fortified themselves for the journey would have been a relief, however loathsome; but this deadly quietude was sinister. ~ Daphne du Maurier, #NFDB
1443:When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on. ~ Doris Roberts, #NFDB
1444:Zeke's snort sounded suspiciously like laughter. "Allie you're a beautiful, exotic-looking vampire girl with a katana. Trust me, if anyone is going to attract attention, it's not going to be me. ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
1445:A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
1446:He liked the way his laughter sounded with theirs. It was a sound he had never heard before: not mingled laughter—he had heard that lots of times—but mingled laughter of which his own was a part. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1447:I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and laughter 'til they bloom, 'til you yourself burst into bloom. ~ Clarissa Pinkola Est s, #NFDB
1448:Just as he reached the point of utter exhaustion, he happened to read Raymond Radiguet’s dying words, ‘God’s soldiers are coming to get me,’ and sensed once again the laughter of the gods. ~ Ry nosuke Akutagawa, #NFDB
1449:Oh my God, dude! You were beginning to freak me out. Don’t do that to me! What do you really need to talk to me about?” His laughter faded when Thomas didn’t crack a smile. “Tommy, knock it off. ~ Jamie McGuire, #NFDB
1450:Somewhere in the world at that moment, there was a birth, a death, a sunrise, and a sunset. There was despair, and a burst of laughter, a promise broken, and a vow made.
And there was this kiss. ~ Lydia Kang,#NFDB
1451:That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour; but that which we have forgotten having said, or even what we never said, will cause laughter even into the next world. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
1452:Troubled, yet also with laughter, he recalled that time. He remembered that at that time he had boasted of three things to Kamala, three noble and invincible arts: fasting, waiting and thinking. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
1453:What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men; and even to some which are not innocent. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr, #NFDB
1454:You got to pay your dues to get the joke. Besides, laughter is cheap and very portable. If there's a pogrom, or they're blaming you for the plague, nothing is easier to pack than a sense of humor. ~ Lenny Bruce, #NFDB
1455:If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter and bread with only the scent of jam spread on top of it. It was the best time of her life. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
1456:I inherited the knowledge that sometimes (talents) not only skip a generation, but sometimes run screaming from it. Ironically, it was the singing non-ability that helped feed my love of laughter. ~ Fred Astaire, #NFDB
1457:It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that, while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1458:It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1459:It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1460:Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that laughter is an antidote to apprehension and panic. ~ Norman Cousins, #NFDB
1461:Lucas remembered a sweltering August afternoon when he and Burt had bellowed laughter at a trade article detailing Kroeger’s “meteoric rise” to prosperity. “I thought meteors fell down, not up. ~ Chet Williamson, #NFDB
1462:Niceness, he realised, was not enough, and Love was only part of the rest. You had to have laughter, too. Laughter would make everything come out right in the end, or if it didn’t nobody would notice. ~ Tom Holt, #NFDB
1463:Silence is the beauty of the empty streets; laughter is the beauty of the crowded streets! There is beauty both in emptiness and in fullness; there is beauty both in absence and in presence! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1464:There is something about gin, the tang in it of the deep wildwood, perhaps, that always makes me think of twilight and mists and dead maidens. Tonight it tinkled in my mouth like secret laughter. ~ John Banville, #NFDB
1465:We know, for instance, of "The Book of the Wars of the Lord." It is mentioned in the text [Numbers 21:14]. There was a book: Where is it? One day you will dig and you will maybe find it. [Laughter] ~ Elie Wiesel, #NFDB
1466:God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible. ~ L Ron Hubbard, #NFDB
1467:He liked the way his laughter sounded with theirs. It was the sound he had never heard before: not mingled laughter - he heard that lots of times - but mingled laughter of which his own was a part. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1468:It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that, while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1469:Their laughter seemed to have turned into low whispering now. It never ceases to amaze me, the things they find interesting, amusing or unusual. I can only assume they've led very sheltered lives. ~ Gail Honeyman, #NFDB
1470:We can never untangle all the woes in other people's lives. We can't produce miracles overnight. But we can bring a cup of cool water to a thirsty soul, or a scoop of laughter to a lonely heart. ~ Barbara Johnson, #NFDB
1471:When you wake up each morning, take a moment to think about the kind of life you want to have. Consciously choose to have a happy life: one that is filled with love, laughter, good health and success. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1472:With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn't elicit laughter. ~ Sylvester Stallone, #NFDB
1473:You could take up knitting," he suggested.
My eyebrows scrunched together. "The Angel of Death is suggesting I adopt knitting as a hobby?"
Warren's shoulders shook with with silent laughter. ~ Elicia Hyder,#NFDB
1474:Because,” he said, “I like to know the names of the people I despise. I keep them in a little book and pore over it from time to time, whilst sipping brandy and indulging in throaty, ominous laughter. ~ Tessa Dare, #NFDB
1475:Caine erupted in disbelieving laughter. "Yeah, that'll do it. 'I'm just a kid, Your Honor!' Hah. They'll have to find a few scapegoats, and guess who it will be? You and me, surfer boy. You and me. ~ Michael Grant, #NFDB
1476:I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart. ~ Veronica Roth, #NFDB
1477:I'll regularly just burst out into laughter at funerals, at the expense of the dead. What's the difference between a dead person and Thom Yorke? One is talented and the other is dead. **** you grandma ~ Thom Yorke, #NFDB
1478:It's my mission to try and give people fighting the disease the same gifts of laughter and a positive attitude I had. Hopefully, my career as a comic will give me the forum to touch these people. ~ Robert Schimmel, #NFDB
1479:Meaning?” Shane asked. “That I think it would be fun to put Brooke and Drake in a box and shake them up together to see what kind of noise they make,” Michael suggested, giving in to his laughter. ~ Donna McDonald, #NFDB
1480:out in laughter at his exaggerated, pained contrition. When the laughter had died down and Rocky had sauntered into the room, Sean spoke up. “Have a seat, Cade.” He indicated the seat immediately ~ Lynnette Bonner, #NFDB
1481:Rachel was nowhere in sight. She was the one who comforted him with her warm smile and silent laughter. He could tell that she loved her family. She was the mother bird of the nest, the nurturer. ~ Jennifer Jaynes, #NFDB
1482:The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I expect a black silence from them that is almost as violent: as laughter. ~ Jean Cocteau, #NFDB
1483:The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. ~ Lois Lowry, #NFDB
1484:We owe our freedom to extraordinary people,’ he told the assembled crowd. ‘The bad, the evil, doesn’t have the last word. It is ultimately goodness and laughter and joy and caring and compassion. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
1485:When I feel myself falling out of love with you,
I turn the record of your laughter over, reposition the needle.
I dust the dirty living room of your affection.
-Love, Forgive Me ~ Sierra DeMulder,#NFDB
1486:When there was a choice between love of a woman and hate of a man, her mind could cherish only one emotion, for her love might be a subject for laughter, but no one ever had ever mocked her hatred. ~ Graham Greene, #NFDB
1487:I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial-largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox-in other words,-all the things I love the most. ~ Luis Bunuel, #NFDB
1488:I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes, #NFDB
1489:I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. ~ Clarissa Pinkola Est s, #NFDB
1490:I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1491:As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
1492:But there remained a reflective solitude behind that laughter, that nagging sense of completion that didn't sit well on the shoulders of a woman who had just begun to open her eyes to the wide world. ~ R A Salvatore, #NFDB
1493:contagious, infectious. Diseases spread by contact are contagious. Those spread by air and water are infectious. Used figuratively (‘contagious laughter’, ‘infectious enthusiasm’), either is all right. ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
1494:Damn, Ty, I’m getting slizzard,” Mel says, sending everyone into bouts of laughter. “Dumb ass, you don’t have a G6. You can’t get slizzard in a frickin’ Prius,” I joke with her. We all laugh again ~ Julie Prestsater, #NFDB
1495:Here, on the farther shore of the sunset, with the flushed tide at his feet, and the large star flashing with strange laughter, did he himself naked walk with lifted arms into the quiet flood of life. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
1496:I heard you laughing,' Jack said. He wanted to say something about the quality of that terrible laughter, but he did not know how to begin. So he said, ' I've never heard anyone laugh like you do. ~ Isobelle Carmody, #NFDB
1497:Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace? ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, #NFDB
1498:Stop changing the subject," Taylor snapped. "And think before you speak."
Roo pressed her lips together and then sighed. "How long do you want me to think?"
Niall let out a snort of laughter. ~ Barbara Elsborg,#NFDB
1499:THEBryanLeech: The main problem with being sober: you can tell when people are faking their laughter. #MyJokesArentFunnyAnymore
RonanFitz to THEBryanLeech: Your jokes were never funny. #SorryNotSorry ~ L H Cosway,#NFDB
1500:The castle will seem very quiet and strange without you here. The stone stairs and the chapel will miss your footstep, the gateway will will miss your laughter, and the wall will miss your shadow. ~ Philippa Gregory, #NFDB
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19 Occultism
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8 Christianity
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3 Psychology
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80 Sri Aurobindo
43 The Mother
34 Satprem
23 Friedrich Nietzsche
19 H P Lovecraft
18 Sri Ramakrishna
18 Nolini Kanta Gupta
16 Walt Whitman
14 William Butler Yeats
14 Rabindranath Tagore
11 Aleister Crowley
10 Robert Browning
9 A B Purani
8 William Wordsworth
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6 Saint John of Climacus
5 Nirodbaran
5 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
4 Ralph Waldo Emerson
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2 Kabir
2 Jorge Luis Borges
2 Henry David Thoreau
2 Hafiz
2 Bokar Rinpoche
2 Anonymous
24 Savitri
21 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
19 Lovecraft - Poems
18 Collected Poems
17 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
16 Whitman - Poems
14 Yeats - Poems
14 Tagore - Poems
10 Browning - Poems
9 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
8 Wordsworth - Poems
8 Shelley - Poems
8 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
6 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
6 Magick Without Tears
6 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
6 City of God
6 5.1.01 - Ilion
5 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
5 Agenda Vol 12
4 Words Of Long Ago
4 The Synthesis Of Yoga
4 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
4 Liber Null
4 Liber ABA
4 Faust
4 Essays Divine And Human
4 Emerson - Poems
4 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
4 Agenda Vol 11
4 Agenda Vol 04
3 Writings In Bengali and Sanskrit
3 The Secret Doctrine
3 The Red Book Liber Novus
3 The Golden Bough
3 Letters On Yoga IV
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
3 Agenda Vol 02
2 Walden
2 Twilight of the Idols
2 The Life Divine
2 Tara - The Feminine Divine
2 On the Way to Supermanhood
2 Metamorphoses
2 Hafiz - Poems
2 Crowley - Poems
2 Agenda Vol 08
2 Agenda Vol 06
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2 Agenda Vol 01
0 0.02 - Topographical Note, #Agenda Vol 1, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
From 1960, the Agenda took its final shape arid grew for thirteen years, until May 1973, filling thirteen volumes in all (some six thousand pages), with a change of setting in March 1962 at the time of the Great Turning in Mother's yoga when She permanently retired to her room upstairs, as had Sri Aurobindo in 1926. The interviews then took place high up in this large room carpeted in golden wool, like a ship's stateroom, amidst the rustling of the Copper Pod tree and the cawing of crows. Mother would sit in a low rosewood chair, her face turned towards Sri Aurobindo's tomb, as though She were wearing down the distance separating that world from our own. Her voice had become like that of a child, one could hear her Laughter. She always laughed, this Mother. And then her long silences. Until the day the disciples closed her door on us. It was May 19, 1973. We did not want to believe it. She was alone, just as we were suddenly alone. Slowly, painfully, we had to discover the why of this rupture. We understood nothing of the jealousies of the old species, we did not yet realize that they were becoming the 'owners' of Mother - of the Ashram, of Auroville, of
Sri Aurobindo, of everything - and that the new world was going to be denatured into a new
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
One day, when guru and disciple were engaged in an animated discussion about Vedanta, a servant of the temple garden came there and took a coal from the sacred fire that had been lighted by the great ascetic. He wanted it to light his tobacco. Totapuri flew into a rage and was about to beat the man. Sri Ramakrishna rocked with Laughter. "What a shame!" he cried. "You are explaining to me the reality of Brahman and the illusoriness of the world; yet now you have so far forgotten yourself as to be about to beat a man in a fit of passion. The power of maya is indeed inscrutable!" Totapuri was embarrassed.
About this time Totapuri was suddenly laid up with a severe attack of dysentery. On account of this miserable illness he found it impossible to meditate. One night the pain became excruciating. He could no longer concentrate on Brahman. The body stood in the way. He became incensed with its demands. A free soul, he did not at all care for the body. So he determined to drown it in the Ganges. Thereupon he walked into the river. But, lo! He walks to the other bank." (This version of the incident is taken from the biography of Sri Ramakrishna by Swami Saradananda, one of the Master's direct disciples.) Is there not enough water in the Ganges? Standing dumbfounded on the other bank he looks back across the water. The trees, the temples, the houses, are silhouetted against the sky. Suddenly, in one dazzling moment, he sees on all sides the presence of the Divine Mother. She is in everything; She is everything. She is in the water; She is on land. She is the body; She is the mind. She is pain; She is comfort. She is knowledge; She is ignorance. She is life; She is death. She is everything that one sees, hears, or imagines. She turns "yea" into "nay", and "nay" into "yea". Without Her grace no embodied being can go beyond Her realm. Man has no free will. He is not even free to die. Yet, again, beyond the body and mind She resides in Her Transcendental, Absolute aspect. She is the Brahman that Totapuri had been worshipping all his life.
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Shivanath vehemently criticized the Master for his other-worldly attitude toward his wife. He writes: "Ramakrishna was practically separated from his wife, who lived in her village home. One day when I was complaining to some friends about the virtual widowhood of his wife, he drew me to one side and whispered in my ear: 'Why do you complain? It is no longer possible; it is all dead and gone.' Another day as I was inveighing against this part of his teaching, and also declaring that our program of work in the Brahmo Samaj includes women, that ours is a social and domestic religion, and that we want to give education and social liberty to women, the saint became very much excited, as was his way when anything against his settled conviction was asserted — a trait we so much liked in him — and exclaimed, 'Go, thou fool, go and perish in the pit that your women will dig for you.' Then he glared at me and said: 'What does a gardener do with a young plant? Does he not surround it with a fence, to protect it from goats and cattle? And when the young plant has grown up into a tree and it can no longer be injured by cattle, does he not remove the fence and let the tree grow freely?' I replied, 'Yes, that is the custom with gardeners.' Then he remarked, 'Do the same in your spiritual life; become strong, be full-grown; then you may seek them.' To which I replied, 'I don't agree with you in thinking that women's work is like that of cattle, destructive; they are our associates and helpers in our spiritual struggles and social progress' — a view with which he could not agree, and he marked his dissent by shaking his head. Then referring to the lateness of the hour he jocularly remarked, 'It is time for you to depart; take care, do not be late; otherwise your woman will not admit you into her room.' This evoked hearty Laughter."
Pratap Chandra Mazumdar, the right-hand man of Keshab and an accomplished Brahmo preacher in Europe and America, bitterly criticized Sri Ramakrishna's use of uncultured language and also his austere attitude toward his wife. But he could not escape the spell of the Master's personality. In the course of an article about Sri Ramakrishna, Pratap wrote in the "Theistic Quarterly Review": "What is there in common between him and me? I, a Europeanized, civilized, self-centred, semi-sceptical, so-called educated reasoner, and he, a poor, illiterate, unpolished, half-idolatrous, friendless Hindu devotee? Why should I sit long hours to attend to him, I, who have listened to Disraeli and Fawcett, Stanley and Max Muller, and a whole host of European scholars and divines? . . . And it is not I only, but dozens like me, who do the same. . . . He worships Siva, he worships Kali, he worships Rama, he worships Krishna, and is a confirmed advocate of Vedantic doctrines. . . . He is an idolater, yet is a faithful and most devoted meditator on the perfections of the One Formless, Absolute, Infinite Deity. . . . His religion is ecstasy, his worship means transcendental insight, his whole nature burns day and night with a permanent fire and fever of a strange faith and feeling. . . . So long as he is spared to us, gladly shall we sit at his feet to learn from him the sublime precepts of purity, unworldliness, spirituality, and inebriation in the love of God. . . . He, by his childlike bhakti, by his strong conceptions of an ever-ready Motherhood, helped to unfold it [God as our Mother] in our minds wonderfully. . . . By associating with him we learnt to realize better the divine attributes as scattered over the three hundred and thirty millions of deities of mythological India, the gods of the Puranas."
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
And the Laughter of the Death-rattle is akin.
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Thus shall His Laughter be thrilled through with
Ecstasy.
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But the leaves of the forest rustled with the Laughter
of the wind.
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think it Laughter-ha! ha! ha!
There is nothing movable or immovable under the
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graph 1 he explains the sardonic Laughter, for which he
is justly celebrated, as being in reality the expression of
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sardonic or cynical Laughter to which we have previously
alluded.
0.03 - III - The Evening Sittings, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
Very often some news-item in the daily newspaper, town-gossip, or some interesting letter received either by him or by a disciple, or a question from one of the gathering, occasionally some remark or query from himself would set the ball rolling for the talk. The whole thing was so informal that one could never predict the turn the conversation would take. The whole house therefore was in a mood to enjoy the freshness and the delight of meeting the unexpected. There were peals of Laughter and light talk, jokes and criticism which might be called personal, there was seriousness and earnestness in abundance.
These sittings, in fact, furnished Sri Aurobindo with an occasion to admit and feel the outer atmosphere and that of the group living with him. It brought to him the much-needed direct contact of the mental and vital make-up of the disciples, enabling him to act on the atmosphere in general and on the individual in particular. He could thus help to remould their mental make-up by removing the limitations of their minds and opinions, and correct temperamental tendencies and formations. Thus, these sittings contributed at least partly to the creation of an atmosphere amenable to the working of the Higher Consciousness. Far more important than the actual talk and its content was the personal contact, the influence of the Master, and the divine atmosphere he emanated; for through his outer personality it was the Divine Consciousness that he allowed to act. All along behind the outer manifestation that appeared human, there was the influence and presence of the Divine.
0.03 - Letters to My little smile, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I took your Laughter for a sign of conversion!
Beware of false pride - it leads only to ruin. And do not
01.03 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Souls Release, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A Laughter of sleepless pleasure foamed and spumed
And murmurings of desire that cannot die:
01.13 - T. S. Eliot: Four Quartets, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy
Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony
0 1958-02-03b - The Supramental Ship, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But instead of feeling grieved, morose, rebellious, discontent, I had rather the feeling of what I spoke of at the end: of such a ridiculous absurdity that for several days I was seized with an uncontrollable Laughter whenever I saw things and people! Such a tremendous Laughter, so absolutely inexplicable (except to me), because of the ridiculousness of these situations.
When I invited you on a voyage into the unknown, a voyage of adventure,2 I did not know just how true were my words! And I can promise those who are ready to embark upon this adventure that they will make some very astonishing discoveries.
0 1958 12 - Floor 1, young girl, we shall kill the young princess - black tent, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Then I suddenly realized that it was I the young Princess and as I burst into Laughter, I found myself awake in my bed.
I did not like the idea of something or somebody having the power to pull me like that so materially out of my body without my previous consent. That is why I gave some importance to the experience.
0 1961-04-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When one is in this state, there is no need to worrynothing else matters (Mother bursts into Laughter).
'Whom God protects who shall slay? Whom God has slain who shall protect?'
0 1961-08-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then I went into Sri Aurobindos room and told him, Heres what I have seen. Yes, I know! he replied (Mother laughs) Thats fine; I have decided to retire to my room, and you will take charge of the people. You take charge. (There were about thirty people at the time.) Then he called everyone together for one last meeting. He sat down, had me sit next to him, and said, I called you here to tell you that, as of today, I am withdrawing for purposes of sadhana, and Mother will now take charge of everyone; you should address yourselves to her; she will represent me and she will do all the work. (He hadnt mentioned this to me!Mother bursts into Laughter)
These people had always been very intimate with Sri Aurobindo, so they asked: Why, why, Why? He replied, It will be explained to you. I had no intention of explaining anything, and I left the room with him, but Datta began speaking. (She was an Englishwoman who had left Europe with me; she stayed here until her deatha person who received inspirations.) She said she felt Sri Aurobindo speaking through her and she explained everything: that Krishna had incarnated and that Sri Aurobindo was now going to do an intensive sadhana for the descent of the Supermind; that it meant Krishnas adherence to the Supramental Descent upon earth and that, as Sri Aurobindo would now be too occupied to deal with people, he had put me in charge and I would be doing all the work.
0 1961-08-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I remember once (I must have been ten or twelve years old at the time), there was a luncheon at my parents house for a dozen or so people, all decked out in their Sunday bestthey were family but all the same it was a luncheon and there was a certain protocol; in short, one had to behave properly. I was at one end of the table next to a first-cousin of mine who later became director of the Louvre for a while (he had an artistic intelligence, a rather capable young man). So there we were, and I remember I was observing something rather interesting in his atmosphere (mind you, although the faculties were already there, I knew nothing about occult things; if someone had spoken to me of auras and all that. I knew nothing). I was observing a kind of sensation I had felt in his atmosphere and then, just as I was putting the fork into my mouth, I took off! What a scolding I got! I was told that if I didnt know how to behave, I shouldnt come to the table! (Mother goes into peals of Laughter)
It was during this period that I used to go out of my body every night and do the work Ive spoken of in Prayers and Meditations (I only mentioned it in passing).8 Every night at the same hour, when the whole house was very quiet, I would go out of my body and have all kinds of experiences. And then my body gradually became a sleepwalker (that is, the consciousness of the form became more and more conscious, while the link remained very solidly established). I got into the habit of getting up but not like an ordinary sleepwalker: I would get up, open my desk, take out a piece of paper and write poems. Yes, poems I, who had nothing of the poet in me! I would jot things down, then very consciously put everything back into the drawer, lock everything up again very carefully and go back to bed. One night, for some reason or other, I forgot and left it open. My mother came in (in France the windows are covered with heavy curtains and in the morning my mother would come in and violently throw open the curtains, waking me up, brrm!, without any warning; but I was used to it and would already be prepared to wake upotherwise it would have been most unpleasant!). Anyway, my mother came in, calling me with unquestionable authority, and then she found the open desk and the piece of paper: Whats that?! She grabbed it. What have you been up to? I dont know what I replied, but she went to the doctor: My daughter has become a sleepwalker! You have to give her a drug.
0 1962-05-22, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the last thing he mentions is a marvel the joy and Laughter of the soul. And its so true, so true! Always, all the time, no matter what happens, even when this body is in dreadful pain, the soul is laughing joyously within. Always, always, always.
And suddenly, when I let myself go. You know, I have been advised (by the Lord!) to relax, relax, relax. He doesnt want action to result from the tension of an individual will; so relaxall right, relax. But when you relax and then suddenly get a horrible pain, you say Hey!but at the same time I laugh! What the people around me must think. I am crying and laughing! (Mother laughs.)
0 1962-10-12, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When I start looking, you know (Mother closes her eyes), there are two things simultaneously: that smile, that joy, that Laughter, and then that peace! Oh really, such peace. Such a full, luminous peace and TOTAL: no more struggle, no more contradictions. No more struggle. A SINGLE luminous harmony and yet everything is there, what we call error, suffering, misery, its all there. NOTHING is done away with. It is another way of seeing.
(long silence)
0 1963-01-12, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
81Gods Laughter is sometimes very coarse and unfit for polite ears; He is not satisfied with being Molire, He must needs also be Aristophanes and Rabelais.
(After a silence) Well see on Monday.
0 1963-01-14, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
81Gods Laughter is sometimes very coarse and unfit for polite ears; He is not satisfied with being Molire, He must needs also be Aristophanes and Rabelais.
82If men took life less seriously, they could very soon make it more perfect.
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The only way to make life perfect (I mean here life on earth, of course) is to look at it from a sufficient height to see it in its totality, not only its present totality, but over the whole past, present and future: what it has been, what it is, what it must beyou must be able to see it all at once. Because thats the only way to put everything in its place. Nothing can be done away with, nothing SHOULD be done away with, but each thing must find its own place in total harmony with the rest. Then all those things that appear so evil, so reprehensible and unacceptable to the puritan mind would become movements of joy and freedom in a totally divine life. And then nothing would stop us from knowing, understanding, feeling and living this wonderful Laughter of the Supreme who takes infinite delight in watching Himself live infinitely.
This delight, this wonderful Laughter which dissolves all shadows, all pain, all suffering We only have to go deep enough into ourselves to find the inner Sun and let ourselves be bathed in it. Then everything is but a cascade of harmonious, luminous, sun-filled Laughter which leaves no room for shadow and pain.
In fact, even the greatest difficulty, even the greatest grief, even the greatest physical pain, if you can look at them from THERE, take your stand THERE, you see the unreality of the difficulty, the unreality of the grief, the unreality of the pain and all becomes a joyful and luminous vibration.
It is ultimately the most powerful means of dissolving difficulties, overcoming grief and getting rid of pain. The first two [difficulties and grief] are relatively easy (relatively), the last [pain] is more difficult because of our habit of regarding the body and its sensations as extremely concrete and positive but actually it is the same thing, its just that we havent been taught and accustomed to seeing our body as something fluid, plastic, uncertain, malleable. We havent learned to permeate it with this luminous Laughter which dissolves all shadows and difficulties, all discords, all disharmony, all that grates, cries and weeps.
(silence)
This Sun the Sun of divine Laughteris a: the core of everything, it is the truth of everything. What is needed is to learn to see it, feel it, live it.
And for that, let us flee from those who take life seriously, they are the most boring people on earth!
0 1963-01-18, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Satprem suggests to Mother to publish in the next "Bulletin," of February, her entire talk on "God's Laughter," and in particular the whole passage in which she said: "It's dreadful to take life seriously! Those who have given me the most difficulties have always been the people who take life seriously.")
Oh, no!
0 1963-07-17, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its growing increasingly constant and evidentnatural, spontaneous. And the growing feeling that Youyou know, the You, the You of adorationYou is only for the fun of it! I dont know how to explain. Its almost like a burst of Laughter so obvious is it that there is no difference. Yes, theres only this: Oh, its so much fun to say You! Thats how it is.
All this goes on here, in the body.
0 1964-02-05, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
97When thou affirmest thy soul-experience and deniest the different soul-experience of another, know that God is making a fool of thee. Dost thou not hear His self-delighted Laughter behind thy souls curtains?
Oh, its charming!
0 1964-11-04, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was a physical presence, with a form, but a form It was odd, it was a form As soon as you try to describe it, it seems difficult. But I still have the memory of having seen a sort of form with a quite special but MATERIALlight and quality, and which Yes, maybe it is (Mother looks silently) maybe that is the form of the supramental being? It was very young, but with such power! A power, almost a muscular power (but there were no muscles), and there was a charge: he literally charged down on people and things, and everything was immediately scattered and upset. And he laughed! He laughed, there was such joy! A joy, a Laughter, and, yes, he said, Through you (it was through my physical presence), I am charging , I am charging down on Darkness or Falsehood, or whateverwords come afterwards and spoil everything but the idea was (no, it wasnt an idea, it was something that was said). It lasted just long enough for me to notice ita flash. Then I said, Ah! I had, you know, that reaction of astonishment.
The first timecompletely unexpected.
0 1965-05-08, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then there was Laughter, tears, a whole revolution, and afterwards all was fine.
But nobody on earth will be able to convince me it isnt because this material nature chooses to be that way that it is that way.
0 1965-10-13, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You know, you can only be filled with wonder! (How can I put it?) A sort of Laughterof sunny Laughterwhich is full of an intensity of love and Yes, this must be the Ananda, the true Ananda.
(Same alternating gesture) Like this, like that, like this, like that
0 1966-11-19, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yesterday, lots and lots of things kept coming in that way while I was walking in the afternoon. Then I stayed quiet, still, for five or ten minutes after the walk as usual, and more kept coming and coming. So I said to the Lord, Cant I have five minutes of peace and quiet with You! (Mother laughs) If you knew this atmosphere, this light of Laughter, and such a wonderful Laughterso wonderfully merciful, in fact, and understanding and tender, oh! So I said to myself, Really, what an imbecile I am!
Its becoming a really interesting life.
0 1967-01-11, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We should always laugh, always. The Lord laughs. He laughs, and His Laughter is so good, so good, so full of love! A Laughter that envelops you in an extraordinary sweetness.
This too, men have distorted(laughing) theyve distorted everything!
0 1967-10-14, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When people come and see me with that sort of graveness, when they come like that, I instantly feel like bursting into Laughter! So I laugh, I smile, I welcome them like old friends! (Mother laughs) Voil.
But even so, the Government did not grant Mother dual nationality.
0 1970-03-21, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the way he puts it! (general Laughter)
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0 1970-04-18, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
On Laughter?
(Satprem reads)
0 1970-05-30, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(With her head Mother asks Satprem if he has anything. With his head Satprem asks Mother if she has anything. Laughter.)
(Mother plunges in again)
0 1970-07-04, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I mean about the effect [on people]. I am afraid everyone will suddenly have a psychic being! (general Laughter)
Oh, Mother, youre priceless!
0 1971-01-16, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Anyhow, one thing is that I feel freed from all rules and obligations! (general Laughter) That was the chief result of all that. All the you have to do this, you have to do that, gone!
Well, certainly the principle of the new consciousness is that things are done exactly when they are necessary, and thats that.
0 1971-01-17, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Satprem reads to Mother some passages from yesterday's conversation that will be published in the "Bulletin." Mother's voice is like a long moan, but her laugh is still ready to break out, as if Laughter were the only true physical thing remaining.)
Its good, youve done just what was needed. Its just right, youve said it just perfectly.
0 1971-04-28, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, oh, exactly! (general Laughter)
Ive heard just about everything.
0 1971-05-26, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(M.:) Thats how it becomes a hundred! (general Laughter)
Obviously. Well, it doesnt matter, I am glad to see you.
0 1971-07-28, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats interesting. We must publish that! (general Laughter)
(Mother plunges within, then surfaces and hands Satprem a piece of paper)
0 1972-07-22, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Satprem:) Yes, thats right! [general Laughter]
There you are.
02.03 - The Glory and the Fall of Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
An archipelago of Laughter and fire,
Swam stars apart in a rippled sea of sky.
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There were worlds of her Laughter and dreadful irony,
There were fields of her taste of toil and strife and tears;
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Life was a happy Laughter of the soul
And Joy was king with Love for minister.
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And action tinged with dream, Laughter with thought,
And passion there could wait for its desire
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A race and Laughter of immortal strengths,
The nude god-children in their play-fields ran
02.04 - The Kingdoms of the Little Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And thrill with pleasure and Laughter of brief delight,
And quiver with pain and crave for ecstasy.
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And tears and Laughter and the need called love.
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02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
There are muffled throbs of Laughter's undertones,
The murmur of an occult happiness,
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A Laughter in beauty's everlasting space
Transforming world-experience into joy,
02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And heard the Laughter of her rose desires
Running as if to escape from longed-for hands,
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He sought his way amid life's Laughter and call
And the index chaos of her myriad steps
02.07 - The Descent into Night, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The huge Laughter of a giant cruelty
And fierce glad deeds of ogre violence.
02.09 - The Paradise of the Life-Gods, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It lived in a jewel-rhythm of the Laughter of God
And lay on the breast of universal love.
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Their slopes through a hurry of Laughter and voices sank,
Crossed by a throng of singing rivulets,
02.11 - New World-Conditions, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We do not doubt that it is the deliberate policy of these 'vampires' to keep us Indians down eternally as their serfs and slaves. But whatever be the truth of the fact in the past, it is a pity we do not see that things have changed a good deal and are changing steadily and profoundly and inexorably. It is not, as it is so often demanded, that there has been a change of, heart, in the sense that one has become saintly, self-forgetful, self-sacrificing, altruistic. We, on our part, have not become so and it is idle to expect of others to be so. What has happened is a physical change, a change, almost a revolution in the external conditions of life in the world, in the geographical and economic conditions, for example. The geographical revolution is this that all the nations and peoples of the earth have been thrown together to intermingle, have been forced to come into close and inextricable communion with one another: all barriers of distance and physical inaccessibility have been removed and practically eliminated. The universe may be expanding, but the earth has shrunk and has become very small indeed. A signal example of the kind of blunder that one could commit in this respect was that of the British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, who said, not knowing what he said on the eve of the present war, that Czechoslovakia was a far-off foreign country whose fate is of no concern or consequence to the British. Well, Time-Spirit must have had a hearty Laughter over the wisdom of the statesman: it did not take long for the British to see that Czechoslovakia is dangerously near, indeed, it touches the very frontier of the British Isles. We have flown over the mighty "humps" that separated countries and continents and levelled them and made of the earth one even continuous plain, as it were. Neither the Poles nor the peaks of the Himalayas can hide any longer their millennial secrets from man's newly acquired Argus eye. The span and accuracy of our flying capacity have left no corner of the earth to lie in quiet and splendid isolation.
The geographical revolution has led inevitably to the economic revolution which is not less momentous, pregnant with prophecies of brave new things. We all know that the modern world was ushered in with the industrial revolution. As a result of this new dispensation, world and society gradually divided into two camps: on one side, the industrialists and on the other the agriculturists, or, in a general way, the possessors of raw materials. The Imperialists formed the first group, while the latter, dominated by these, belonged to the Colonies. The "backward" countries and people who could not take to industry, but continued the old system became a helpless prey to the industrial nations. Africa and Asia and the South American countries came under the domination of European nations, rather the West European Nations: they became the suppliers of raw materials and also the market for finished products. Also within the same country occupying the imperial status, there came a division, a class division, as it is called. A few industrial magnates or trusts (France had its famous Two-Hundred Families) monopolised all the wealth, became the top-dog, the "Haves", the others were mere hewers of wood and drawers of water, serfs and slaves, the "Have-Nots". Exploitation was-the motto of the age. The "exploiters" and the "exploited", this trenchant duality was the whole truth of the social scheme and that summed up the entire malady of the collective life. Then came the First World War and the Bolshevik Revolution which brought to a head the great crisis and initiated the change-over to new conditions. The French Revolution called up from the rear of social ranks and set in front the Third Estate and gradually formed and crystallised, with the aid of the Industrial Revolution, what is known as the Bourgeoisie. The Russian Revolution went a step farther. It dislodged the bourgeoisie and installed the Fourth Estate, the proletariate, as the head and front of society, its centre of power and governmental authority. In the meantime there was developing in the bourgeois society, too, a kind of socialism which aimed at the uplift and remoulding of the working class into a total social power. But the process could not, go far enough. The Industrial League, no doubt, began to release some of its monopolies, delegate some of its power and authority to the Proletariate and sought an armistice and entente; but still it is they who wielded the real power and gave to society the tone and impress of their characteristic authority. The Russian experiment made a bold departure and attempted to build up a new society from the very bottom: the manual labourers, they who produce with the sweat of their brow and make a society living and prosperous must also be its rulers. Now whatever the success or failure in regard to the perfect ideal, the thing achieved is solid; certain forces have been released that are working inexorably in and through even contrary appearances, they have come to stay and cannot be negatived. The urge, for example, towards a more equitable distribution of wealth and wealth-producing implements; an even balancing of economic values has been growing and gathering strength: it has become an asset of the body social. Instead of an unfettered competition between rival agencies, the mad drive for a jealous and closely guarded appropriation (rather, mis-appropriation) by private cartels, there has arisen an inevitable need for a unitary or co-operative control under a common direction, whether it be that of the state or some other body equally representing the common interest. In other words, the principle of co-operation has now become a living reality, a thing of practical politics. All effort towards progress and amelioration, cure of social ills and regaining of health and strength must lie in that direction: anything going the contrary way shall perforce be out of tune with the Time-Spirit and can cause only confusion, bring in stagnation or even regression.
02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A Laughter from the immortal heart of Bliss,
And the unfathomed Joy of timelessness,
02.12 - The Heavens of the Ideal, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And Laughter of the heart's sweetness and delight
Freed from the rude and tragic hold of Time,
03.03 - The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A word, a Laughter, sprang from Silence' breast,
A rhythm of Beauty in the calm of Space,
--
That looked on them with Laughter and delight
And joyed in these transcendent images
--
Joy in her heart and Laughter on her lips,
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04.03 - The Call to the Quest, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Low Laughter, music of tranquillity,
Star-lustrous eyes awake in sweet large night
04.07 - Readings in Savitri, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
As, however, mortality bears ill the eternal's touch, the eternal too is intolerant of the mortal natureonly it is intolerant not in the ignorant blind squeamish weak human way, but in a divine way, for it is armed with weapons of light and knowledge, it assaults with its luminous force, the energy of ether and fire, the higher and nobler elements as against the dense dark dumb earth, the lowest element that clothes the human consciousness. Indeed, mortality is enamoured of the tangled beam of joy and sorrow, of Laughter and tears, of light and shadow and cannot contemplate the unalloyed sheer delight in Eternity. It is out of breath in the serene rarefied air of immortality; it pines for the terra firma, the mud and slime. The human consciousness has been fleeing the Hound of Heaven down the corridors of Time, and yet it will be caught in the end and wholly transmuted in the divine embrace into the substance of the Divine Himself. All the unwillingness and protestation and revolt are meant to forge and hammer the final union into something perfect, faultless, absolute.
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04.28 - To the Heights-XXVIII, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
against the blazing armour that my Lord's Laughter
has fashioned around me-
04.36 - To the Heights-XXXVI, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Scattering their silvern Laughter;
They fill my sails with the fragrant breath of their little mouths-
05.01 - The Destined Meeting-Place, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Inarmed, disputing with Laughter who should rule.
There expectation beat wide sudden wings
--- Overview of noun laughter
The noun laughter has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (15) laugh, laughter ::: (the sound of laughing)
2. laughter ::: (the activity of laughing; the manifestation of joy or mirth or scorn; "he enjoyed the laughter of the crowd")
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun laughter
2 senses of laughter
Sense 1
laugh, laughter
=> utterance, vocalization
=> auditory communication
=> communication
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
laughter
=> activity
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun laughter
1 of 2 senses of laughter
Sense 1
laugh, laughter
=> cachinnation
=> cackle
=> chortle, chuckle
=> giggle
=> guffaw, belly laugh
=> hee-haw, horselaugh, ha-ha, haw-haw
=> snicker, snort, snigger
=> titter
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun laughter
2 senses of laughter
Sense 1
laugh, laughter
=> utterance, vocalization
Sense 2
laughter
=> activity
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun laughter
2 senses of laughter
Sense 1
laugh, laughter
-> utterance, vocalization
=> roll call
=> cry, outcry, call, yell, shout, vociferation
=> cry, yell
=> croak, croaking
=> exclamation, exclaiming
=> expletive
=> groan, moan
=> hem, ahem
=> howl, howling, ululation
=> laugh, laughter
=> mumble
=> paging
=> profanity
=> pronunciation
=> exultation, rejoicing, jubilation
=> sigh, suspiration
=> snarl
=> speaking, speech production
=> speech
=> sputter, splutter
=> rasp, rasping
=> growling
Sense 2
laughter
-> activity
=> variation, variance
=> space walk
=> domesticity
=> operation
=> operation
=> practice, pattern
=> diversion, recreation
=> cup of tea, bag, dish
=> follow-up, followup
=> game
=> turn, play
=> music
=> acting, playing, playacting, performing
=> liveliness, animation
=> burst, fit
=> work
=> works, deeds
=> service
=> occupation, business, job, line of work, line
=> occupation
=> writing, committal to writing
=> role
=> wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, misconduct, actus reus
=> waste, wastefulness, dissipation
=> attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
=> control
=> protection
=> sensory activity
=> education, instruction, teaching, pedagogy, didactics, educational activity
=> training, preparation, grooming
=> representation
=> creation, creative activity
=> dismantling, dismantlement, disassembly
=> puncture
=> search, hunt, hunting
=> use, usage, utilization, utilisation, employment, exercise
=> operation, military operation
=> measurement, measuring, measure, mensuration
=> calibration, standardization, standardisation
=> organization, organisation
=> grouping
=> support, supporting
=> continuance, continuation
=> procedure, process
=> ceremony
=> ceremony
=> worship
=> energizing, activating, activation
=> concealment, concealing, hiding
=> placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement
=> provision, supply, supplying
=> demand
=> pleasure
=> enjoyment, delectation
=> lamentation, mourning
=> laughter
=> market, marketplace, market place
=> politics
=> preparation, readying
=> aid, assist, assistance, help
=> support
=> behavior, behaviour, conduct, doings
=> behavior, behaviour
=> leadership, leading
=> precession, precedence, precedency
=> solo
=> buzz
=> fun
=> sin, hell
=> release, outlet, vent
=> last
=> mystification, obfuscation
=> negotiation
=> verbalization, verbalisation
=> perturbation, disturbance
=> timekeeping
--- Grep of noun laughter
laughter
manslaughter
slaughter
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Integral World - Transcending Flatland, essay by Richard Slaughter
Integral World - A new framework for environmental scanning, essay by Richard Slaughter
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Cheers (1982 - 1993) - Much in the same light as Taxi, this show is about a warm place that Boston regulars go to to share their hardships and laughter. Owned and ran by former Boston Red Sox reliever and womanizer Sammy "Mayday" Malone, the bar becomes a notorious place for misplaced hijinks and cookey romance. Coach is...
Webster (1983 - 1989) - The post-retirement season is suddenly disrupted for football player George Papadapolis and his wife Katherine when Webster, the orphaned son of a former teammate, moves in. Laughter -- and life lessons -- in every episode.
The Moomins (1990 - 1992) - They love the laughter and they love the living. The Moomins,
Carole & Paula in the Magic Garden (1972 - 1984) - The Magic Garden, one of the most successful, locally produced childrens television shows in the country, was broadcast on WPIX New York. Stars Carole Demas and Paula Janis helped create the show. In a colorful garden setting they brought stories, songs, games, lessons and laughter to their devo...
Cartoon Planet (1995 - 1999) - Following success as a late-night talk show host, Space Ghost recruits Brak (now has short-term memory) to his cast for his very own variety show. Zorak (from Coast to Coast) serves as the third host. Cartoon Planet is a show full o' comedy skits that'll make you bounce off the walls with laughter!
Little Clowns of Happy Town (1987 - 1988) - "Laughter is the best medicine." That was the philosophy of writer and cancer survivor Norman Cousins, who was hired as a consultant on this show about the residents of Itty Bitty City. Also known as Happytown, the city was home to miniature clowns whose purpose was to spread joy throughout the worl...
Sleepaway Camp(1983) - Sleepaway Camp served quite an interesting surprise in terms of contemporary '80s gore. The killer is a transvestite! Well...actually! He was originally a normal little boy whose two dads...and slightly older sister...were slaughtered in an unfortunate accident involving a speedboat driven by t...
Predator(1987) - A team of commandos, led by Dutch Schaeffer, go on a mission to rescue captured airmen from terrorists. When they discover that the airmen have been slaughtered beyond recognition, the team decimates the enemy encampment. Before they can radio for a lift-off, an invisible alien specie begins to kill...
Daffy Duck's Quackbusters(1988) - In this feature-length film combining footage from classic Warner Brothers cartoon shorts with newly animated bridging sequences, Daffy Duck, after having induced laughter in an ailing millionaire and forestalled the millionaire's death for a time (as chronicled in Daffy Dilly (1948), is the benefic...
Night of The Demons(1988) - It's Halloween night, and spooky girl Angela (Amelia Kinkade) and her boy-crazy pal Suzanne (Linnea Quigley) are throwing a party at Hull House, a local mortuary that was abandoned years ago after the Hull family patriarch slaughtered his entire family within its walls. They have invited the usual a...
Garfield: His Nine Lives(1988) - The surly feline plays multiple roles recalling his nine lives, ranging from "Cave Cat" to "Space Cat". Filled with loads of fun and laughter, this feature will sweep you off your feet!
Slaughter High(1986) - A group of popular students play a cruel prank on a shy nerd resulting in a terrible accident. Years later a reunion is held where each of the students face a stalker killer who may be the same nerd out for revenge
Billy Jack(1971) - Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaway.
American Kickboxer(1991) - After spending his time in jail for manslaughter, a formal world-champion kick boxer B.J. Quinn (John Barrett) is released after doing time and sets out to regain his former stature as a top-notch fighter. Unfortunately he begins his comeback at a drunken party (he's drunk) and he tangles with the c...
Cemetery High(1990) - This unbelievably poor slasher parody from director Gorman Bechard (Psychos in Love) concerns four nubile young women calling themselves "The Scumbusters." They team up and begin slaughtering dumb jocks on a college campus after being raped. As crass as the rape-revenge genre ever got, Cemetery High...
For the Boys(1992) - In this ambitious musical saga, unknown USO singer Dixie Leonard (Bette Midler) is teamed up with one of America's beloved song-and-dance men--Eddie Sparks (James Caan)--in England during World War II, beginning a 50-year partnership of music, laughter, and tears. Eddie is a seductive comedian and s...
Black Dog(1998) - Kevin Hooks (Passenger 57) directed this action drama about an ex-convict tricked into trucking illegal weapons across state lines. Truckdriver Jack Crews (Patrick Swayze) fell asleep at the wheel, resulting in an accident that brought him a conviction of vehicular manslaughter and a two-year prison...
Eaten Alive(1977) - Eaten Alive (known under various pseudonyms in alternate regions, adopting such titles as Death Trap (UK), Horror Hotel, Horror Hotel Massacre , Legend of the Bayou, Murder on the Bayou, Le crocodile de la mort (France) and Starlight Slaughter) is a 1977 horror film directed by Tobe Hooper, featurin...
Disorderlies(1987) - As not-quite-orderlies who're downright Disorderlies, rap-music favorites The Fat Boys rule. Playing the freewheeling caretakers of the frail Dennison (Hollywood legend Ralph Bellamy), they stir up a comedic culture clash in Palm Beach society that only proves laughter is the best medicine this side...
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer(1986) - HENRY PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER, loosely based on the case of Henry Lee Lucas, a confessed serial killer, is a terrifyingly intimate journey into the twisted life of a murderous psychotic. As the blank-eyed Henry (Michael Rooker) drifts from place to place, he selects victims at random, slaughters...
The Outlaws Is Coming(1965) - Rance Roden plans to kill off all the buffalo and thus cause the Indians to riot. After they destroy the US Cavalry, Rance and his gang will take over the West. Meanwhile, a Boston magazine gets wind of the buffalo slaughter and sends editor Kenneth Cabot (Adam West) and his associates (Moe, Larry a...
Vampires(1998) - A vampire hunter, named Jack Crow, team is slaughtered by a vampire known as the master vampire, Valek. Jack now must find a relic known as the Berziers Cross before Valek does. If Valek finds this relic, it will allow vampires the ability to survive daylight with nothing in their in way to stop the...
The Unnamable(1988) - Back in the 1800's a lady gives birth to a monster. They decide that the baby is too ugly to name, therefore the monster is known as the "Unnamable". The creature brutally slaughters his family, and gets trapped in a vault. Go ahead to 1998, and some college students have heard the story about the u...
Big Business(1988) - Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin -- the first ladies of laughter -- star in this critically acclaimed box office hit about two sets of identical twins who are mismatched at birth. Forty years later, their paths cross amid the hustle and bustle of Manhattan, and the result is unrestrained pandemonium. Ne...
Bless The Beast And The Children(1971) - A group of misfit kids,at summer camp,attempt to free a herd of buffalo from being senselessly slaughtered.
King Kong Lives(1986) - Sequel to the 1976 remake finds a comatose Kong resurrected with an artificial heart and a mate named Lady Kong. All heck breaks loose when the two escape and the army (lead by what looks like to be a live-action Sergeant Slaughter) goes after them to kil
Slaughter's Big Rip-Off(1973) - Vigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps Slaughter in a car at a cliff, but Slaughter escapes, arms himself, and goes after Duncan's hideout.
Antropophagus(1980) - A group of tourists become stranded on an uninhabited island where they are stalked by an insane, violent, and grotesque killer that slaughtered the town's former residents.
Slaughter(1972) - Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and in so doing is coerced by the Feds into traveling to Mexico to finish off surviving mobsters.
Jailhouse Rock(1957) - After serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star.
Vampire Journals(1997) - Avenging vampire stalks a king of the vampires in Eastern Europe, slaughters anyone who gets in his way.
Each Dawn I Die(1939) - A corrupt D.A. with political ambitions is angered by news stories implicating him in criminal activity and decides to frame the reporter who wrote them for manslaughter in order to silence him.
Sweet Lorraine(1987) - In its heyday, the Lorraine Hotel saw its fair share of guests, laughter and good times. But now that the aging inn is well past its prime, owner Lillian Garber must decide whether to repair the Catskills landmark - or sell to developers. As Lillian and her zany staff enjoy what may be the Lorraine'...
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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004) ::: 7.5/10 -- Inosensu: Innocence (original title) -- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence Poster -- In the year 2032, Bat, a cyborg detective for the anti-terrorist unit Public Security Section 9, investigates the case of a female robot--one created solely for sexual pleasure--who slaughtered her owner. Director: Mamoru Oshii Writers:
Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer (2018) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 33min | Crime, Drama | 12 October 2018 (USA) -- A movie about the crimes and trial of Kermit Gosnell, an American doctor and abortion provider who was convicted of killing three fetuses and the involuntary manslaughter of a woman who died during a procedure. Director: Nick Searcy Writers:
Jailhouse Rock (1957) ::: 6.6/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 36min | Drama, Music, Musical | 8 November 1957 (USA) -- After serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star. Director: Richard Thorpe Writers: Guy Trosper (screenplay), Nedrick Young (story) (as Ned Young)
Killer of Sheep (1978) ::: 7.3/10 -- 1h 20min | Drama | 14 November 1978 (USA) -- Set in the Watts area of Los Angeles, a slaughterhouse worker must suspend his emotions to continue working at a job he finds repugnant, and then he finds he has little sensitivity for the family he works so hard to support. Director: Charles Burnett Writer: Charles Burnett
Prime Cut (1972) ::: 6.8/10 -- R | 1h 28min | Action, Crime, Drama | 1972 (Portugal) -- A vicious Kansas City slaughterhouse owner and his hick family are having a bloody "beef" with the Chicago crime syndicate over profits from their joint illegal operations. Top enforcer Nick Devlin is sent to straighten things out. Director: Michael Ritchie Writer: Robert Dillon
Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) ::: 6.8/10 -- R | 1h 44min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi | 15 March 1972 (USA) -- Billy Pilgrim has mysteriously become unstuck in time. He goes on an uncontrollable trip back and forth from his birth in New York to life on a distant planet and back again to the horrors of the 1945 fire-bombing of Dresden. Director: George Roy Hill Writers: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (novel), Stephen Geller (screenplay)
The Punisher (2004) ::: 6.4/10 -- R | 2h 4min | Action, Crime, Drama | 16 April 2004 (USA) -- An undercover FBI agent becomes a vigilante and sets out to unleash his wrath upon the corrupt businessman who slaughtered his entire family at a reunion. Director: Jonathan Hensleigh Writers:
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91 Days -- -- Shuka -- 12 eps -- Original -- Action Drama Historical -- 91 Days 91 Days -- As a child living in the town of Lawless, Angelo Lagusa has witnessed a tragedy: his parents and younger brother have been mercilessly slaughtered by the Vanetti mafia family. Losing everything he holds dear, he leaves both his name and hometown behind, adopting the new identity of Avilio Bruno. -- -- Seven years later, Avilio finally has his chance for revenge when he receives a mysterious letter prompting him to return to Lawless. Obliging, he soon encounters the Vanetti don's son, Nero, and seeks to befriend him using the skills he has quietly honed for years. -- -- Set during the Prohibition era, 91 Days tells the story of Avilio's dark, bloodstained path to vengeance, as he slowly ends each of the men involved in the killing of his family. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Crunchyroll, Funimation -- 502,107 7.83
Azumanga Daioh -- -- J.C.Staff -- 26 eps -- 4-koma manga -- Slice of Life Comedy School -- Azumanga Daioh Azumanga Daioh -- Chiyo Mihama begins her high school career as one of the strangest students in her freshman class—a tiny, 10-year-old academic prodigy with a fondness for plush dolls and homemade cooking. But her homeroom teacher, Yukari Tanizaki, is the kind of person who would hijack a student's bike to avoid being late, so "strange" is a relative word. -- -- There certainly isn't a shortage of peculiar girls in Yukari-sensei's homeroom class. Accompanying Chiyo are students like Tomo Takino, an energetic tomboy with more enthusiasm than brains; Koyomi Mizuhara, Tomo's best friend whose temper has a fuse shorter than Chiyo; and Sakaki, a tall, athletic beauty whose intimidating looks hide a gentle personality and a painful obsession with cats. In addition, transfer student Ayumu Kasuga, a girl with her head stuck in the clouds, fits right in with the rest of the girls—and she has a few interesting theories about Chiyo's pigtails! -- -- Together, this lovable group of girls experience the ups and downs of school life, their many adventures filled with constant laughter, surreal absurdity, and occasionally even touching commentary on the bittersweet, temporal nature of high school. -- -- 268,177 7.97
Azumanga Daioh -- -- J.C.Staff -- 26 eps -- 4-koma manga -- Slice of Life Comedy School -- Azumanga Daioh Azumanga Daioh -- Chiyo Mihama begins her high school career as one of the strangest students in her freshman class—a tiny, 10-year-old academic prodigy with a fondness for plush dolls and homemade cooking. But her homeroom teacher, Yukari Tanizaki, is the kind of person who would hijack a student's bike to avoid being late, so "strange" is a relative word. -- -- There certainly isn't a shortage of peculiar girls in Yukari-sensei's homeroom class. Accompanying Chiyo are students like Tomo Takino, an energetic tomboy with more enthusiasm than brains; Koyomi Mizuhara, Tomo's best friend whose temper has a fuse shorter than Chiyo; and Sakaki, a tall, athletic beauty whose intimidating looks hide a gentle personality and a painful obsession with cats. In addition, transfer student Ayumu Kasuga, a girl with her head stuck in the clouds, fits right in with the rest of the girls—and she has a few interesting theories about Chiyo's pigtails! -- -- Together, this lovable group of girls experience the ups and downs of school life, their many adventures filled with constant laughter, surreal absurdity, and occasionally even touching commentary on the bittersweet, temporal nature of high school. -- -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, Sentai Filmworks -- 268,177 7.97
Blade of the Immortal -- -- Bee Train -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Historical Supernatural Samurai -- Blade of the Immortal Blade of the Immortal -- Manji is an infamous swordsman in feudal Japan who is known as the "Hundred Man Killer," as he has killed one hundred innocent men. However, there is something far more frightening than his ominous reputation: the fact that he is immortal. This is the handiwork of eight-hundred-year-old nun Yaobikuni, who placed bloodworms capable of healing almost any wound in Manji's body. -- -- To atone for his crimes, Manji resolves to kill one thousand evil men. Yaobikuni agrees to this proposal, saying that if he succeeds, she will undo his curse of immortality. Soon after this promise, Manji meets Rin Asano, a 16-year-old girl who requests Manji's assistance in killing those who slaughtered her parents. -- -- Initially reluctant, Manji refuses Rin's desperate plea. However, owing to her evident lack of strength, Manji changes his mind and agrees to protect Rin for four years. With this partnership set in stone, the two embark on a perilous journey of bloodshed, vengeance, and redemption, each to fulfill their own life's cause. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Media Blasters -- TV - Jul 14, 2008 -- 57,921 6.82
Blade of the Immortal -- -- Bee Train -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Historical Supernatural Samurai -- Blade of the Immortal Blade of the Immortal -- Manji is an infamous swordsman in feudal Japan who is known as the "Hundred Man Killer," as he has killed one hundred innocent men. However, there is something far more frightening than his ominous reputation: the fact that he is immortal. This is the handiwork of eight-hundred-year-old nun Yaobikuni, who placed bloodworms capable of healing almost any wound in Manji's body. -- -- To atone for his crimes, Manji resolves to kill one thousand evil men. Yaobikuni agrees to this proposal, saying that if he succeeds, she will undo his curse of immortality. Soon after this promise, Manji meets Rin Asano, a 16-year-old girl who requests Manji's assistance in killing those who slaughtered her parents. -- -- Initially reluctant, Manji refuses Rin's desperate plea. However, owing to her evident lack of strength, Manji changes his mind and agrees to protect Rin for four years. With this partnership set in stone, the two embark on a perilous journey of bloodshed, vengeance, and redemption, each to fulfill their own life's cause. -- -- TV - Jul 14, 2008 -- 57,921 6.82
Brave 10 -- -- TMS Entertainment -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Historical Super Power Samurai Seinen -- Brave 10 Brave 10 -- Isanami, a young priestess of Izumo, is forced to watch as a group of evil ninja burn her temple to the ground and slaughter the people within, leaving her no choice but to flee into the forest to escape the same fate. By chance, she stumbles upon Saizou Kirigakure, a masterless ninja from the Iga school. The two travel to Ueda Castle to ask Yukimura Sanada for help. Isanami's possession of a strange and devastating power is revealed, and Sanada readily agrees to help her, gathering ten brave warriors to Isanami's side. -- -- Thus begins Brave 10, a story set in the Warring States period. It follows Saizou and Isanami's journey throughout the war-laden lands in search of brave warriors to serve under Yukimura's banner, each possessing powerful skills of their own. They'll have to travel far and wide, all while trying to fend off those who would chase after the dark power that she possesses to make it their own. -- -- Licensor: -- NIS America, Inc. -- TV - Jan 8, 2012 -- 132,225 6.79
Code Geass: Boukoku no Akito 2 - Hikisakareshi Yokuryuu -- -- Sunrise -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Mecha Military -- Code Geass: Boukoku no Akito 2 - Hikisakareshi Yokuryuu Code Geass: Boukoku no Akito 2 - Hikisakareshi Yokuryuu -- With her previous triumphs under her belt, Leila Malcal has now been promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and commanding officer of W-0. After having foiled an attempt to kidnap the General of the European army, she recruits the three perpetrators in order to make up for the lack of W-0's pilots. Ayano Kosaka, Yukiya Naruse, and ringleader Ryou Sayama accept, in hopes of finding a place to belong. When they are ordered to perform a commando raid by dropping into enemy lines, Leila decides to join them to prevent unnecessary casualties. -- -- As the unit rushes into the fight, Akito finds himself possessed by an uncontrollable lust for violence, slaughtering anyone that gets in his way. Little does he know, he is soon to come face to face with the one responsible for placing the bloodthirsty curse upon him, someone he is far too familiar with... -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- Movie - Sep 14, 2013 -- 113,975 7.52
Dies Irae -- -- A.C.G.T. -- 11 eps -- Visual novel -- Action Military Super Power Magic -- Dies Irae Dies Irae -- On May 1, 1945 in Berlin, as the Red Army raises the Soviet flag over the Reichskanzlei, a group of Nazi officers conduct a ritual. For them, the slaughter in the city is nothing but the perfect ritual sacrifice in order to bring back the Order of the 13 Lances, a group of supermen whose coming would bring the world's destruction. Years later, no one knows if this group of officers succeeded, or whether they lived or died. Few know of their existence, and even those who knew began to pass away as the decades passed. -- -- Now in December in the present day in Suwahara City, Ren Fujii spends his days at the hospital. It has been two months since the incident that brought him to the hospital: a fight with his friend Shirou Yusa where they almost tried to kill each other. He tries to value what he has left to him, but every night he sees the same dream: a guillotine, murderers who hunt people, and the black clothed knights who pursue the murderers. He is desperate to return to his normal, everyday life, but even now he hears Shirou's words: "Everyone who remains in this city eventually loses their minds." -- -- (Source: ANN) -- 115,820 5.37
Dies Irae -- -- A.C.G.T. -- 11 eps -- Visual novel -- Action Military Super Power Magic -- Dies Irae Dies Irae -- On May 1, 1945 in Berlin, as the Red Army raises the Soviet flag over the Reichskanzlei, a group of Nazi officers conduct a ritual. For them, the slaughter in the city is nothing but the perfect ritual sacrifice in order to bring back the Order of the 13 Lances, a group of supermen whose coming would bring the world's destruction. Years later, no one knows if this group of officers succeeded, or whether they lived or died. Few know of their existence, and even those who knew began to pass away as the decades passed. -- -- Now in December in the present day in Suwahara City, Ren Fujii spends his days at the hospital. It has been two months since the incident that brought him to the hospital: a fight with his friend Shirou Yusa where they almost tried to kill each other. He tries to value what he has left to him, but every night he sees the same dream: a guillotine, murderers who hunt people, and the black clothed knights who pursue the murderers. He is desperate to return to his normal, everyday life, but even now he hears Shirou's words: "Everyone who remains in this city eventually loses their minds." -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Crunchyroll, Funimation -- 115,820 5.37
Fruits Basket 1st Season -- -- TMS Entertainment -- 25 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Romance Shoujo Slice of Life Supernatural -- Fruits Basket 1st Season Fruits Basket 1st Season -- Tooru Honda has always been fascinated by the story of the Chinese Zodiac that her beloved mother told her as a child. However, a sudden family tragedy changes her life, and subsequent circumstances leave her all alone. Tooru is now forced to live in a tent, but little does she know that her temporary home resides on the private property of the esteemed Souma family. Stumbling upon their home one day, she encounters Shigure, an older Souma cousin, and Yuki, the "prince" of her school. Tooru explains that she lives nearby, but the Soumas eventually discover her well-kept secret of being homeless when they see her walking back to her tent one night. -- -- Things start to look up for Tooru as they kindly offer to take her in after hearing about her situation. But soon after, she is caught up in a fight between Yuki and his hot-tempered cousin, Kyou. While trying to stop them, she learns that the Souma family has a well-kept secret of their own: whenever they are hugged by a member of the opposite sex, they transform into the animals of the Chinese Zodiac. -- -- With this new revelation, Tooru will find that living with the Soumas is an unexpected adventure filled with laughter and romance. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 425,981 8.19
Hanma Baki: Son of Ogre -- -- TMS Entertainment -- ? eps -- Manga -- Action Martial Arts Shounen -- Hanma Baki: Son of Ogre Hanma Baki: Son of Ogre -- Third part of the Baki series. -- ONA - ??? ??, 2021 -- 11,668 N/ASenjuushi -- -- TMS Entertainment -- 12 eps -- Game -- Action Military -- Senjuushi Senjuushi -- Despair War is a battle between ancient guns and contemporary guns. Due to a nuclear war, the world was destroyed. Under the full governance of a world empire, people are living with their freedom taken. Despite the forbidden rule of owning any weapons, there is a resistance that secretly fights against the world empire. They own ancient guns left as art and fight using these. Then, the Kijuushi appear as the souls of the ancient guns. Proud and magnificent, the "Absolute Royal" are the only ones that can give hope to this world. The story depicts the everyday life of the Kijuushi. Laughter, despair, happiness, confusion, pain; they would still pursue their own absolute loyalty to fight. What do they fight for? What should they protect? -- -- (Source: MAL News) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 11,661 4.92
Hi no Tori -- -- Tezuka Productions -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Sci-Fi Adventure Historical Supernatural Drama -- Hi no Tori Hi no Tori -- From prehistoric times to the distant future, Hi no Tori portrays how the legendary immortal bird Phoenix acts as a witness and chronicler for the history of mankind's endless struggle in search of power, justice, and freedom. -- -- The Dawn -- Since time immemorial, people have sought out the legendary Phoenix for its blood, which is known to grant eternal life. Hearing about rumored Phoenix sightings in the Land of Fire, Himiko—the cruel queen of Yamatai obsessed with immortality—sends her army to conquer the nation and retrieve the creature. Young Nagi, his elder sister Hinaku, and her foreign husband Guzuri are the only survivors of the slaughter. But while Nagi is taken prisoner by the enemy, elsewhere, Hinaku has a shocking revelation. -- -- The Resurrection -- In a distant future where Earth has become uninhabitable, Leona undergoes surgery on a space station to recover from a deadly accident. However, while also suffering from amnesia, his brain is now half cybernetic and causes him to see people as formless scraps and robots as humans. Falling in love with Chihiro, a discarded robot, they escape together from the space station to prevent Chihiro from being destroyed. Yet as his lost memories gradually return, Leona will have to confront the painful truth about his past. -- -- The Transformation -- Yearning for independence, Sakon no Suke—the only daughter of a tyrant ruler—kills priestess Yao Bikuni, the sole person capable of curing her father's illness. Consequently, she and her faithful servant, Kahei, are unexpectedly confined to the temple grounds of Bikuni's sanctuary. While searching for a way out, Sakon no Suke assumes the priestess's position and uses a miraculous feather to heal all those reaching out for help. -- -- The Sun -- After his faction loses the war, Prince Harima's head is replaced with a wolf's. An old medicine woman who recognizes his bloodline assists him and the wounded General Azumi-no-muraji Saruta in escaping to Wah Land. But their arrival at a small Wah village is met with unexpected trouble as Houben, a powerful Buddhist monk, wants Harima dead. With the aid of the Ku clan wolf gods that protect the village's surroundings, he survives the murder attempt. After tensions settle, Saruta uses his established reputation in Wah to persuade the villagers to welcome Harima into their community. Over a period of time, Harima becomes the village's respected leader under the name Inugami no Sukune. But while the young prince adapts to his new role, he must remain vigilant as new dangers soon arise and threaten his recently acquired tranquility. -- -- The Future -- Life on Earth has gradually ceased to exist, with the survivors taking refuge in underground cities. To avoid human extinction, Doctor Saruta unsuccessfully tries to recreate life in his laboratory. However, the unexpected visit of Masato Yamanobe, his alien girlfriend Tamami, and his colleague Rock Holmes reveals a disturbing crisis: the computers that regulate the subterranean cities have initiated a nuclear war that will eliminate all of mankind. -- -- TV - Mar 21, 2004 -- 7,595 7.10
Juushin Enbu: Hero Tales -- -- Studio Flag -- 26 eps -- Manga -- Action Fantasy Shounen -- Juushin Enbu: Hero Tales Juushin Enbu: Hero Tales -- For citizens of the Ken Empire, justice is a myth. Lord Keiro, the deranged Shogun of the Imperial Army, blazes a trail of terror across the countryside in search of the sacred sword that will make him a god. Standing in his way is Taito, an omnipotent star reborn in human form—a young hero who vows to use his celestial strength to avenge those slaughtered by the villainous Shogun. -- -- Taito's mystical powers steer him toward a violent showdown with Keiro, and if used recklessly, his newfound abilities could shred the very fabric of his being. To master the art of control and become a heroic martial artist, Taito must seek the guidance of others like him: the seven star-born warriors with the strength to shatter a corrupt empire. -- -- (Source: RightStuf) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- TV - Oct 8, 2007 -- 23,680 6.85
Juushin Enbu: Hero Tales -- -- Studio Flag -- 26 eps -- Manga -- Action Fantasy Shounen -- Juushin Enbu: Hero Tales Juushin Enbu: Hero Tales -- For citizens of the Ken Empire, justice is a myth. Lord Keiro, the deranged Shogun of the Imperial Army, blazes a trail of terror across the countryside in search of the sacred sword that will make him a god. Standing in his way is Taito, an omnipotent star reborn in human form—a young hero who vows to use his celestial strength to avenge those slaughtered by the villainous Shogun. -- -- Taito's mystical powers steer him toward a violent showdown with Keiro, and if used recklessly, his newfound abilities could shred the very fabric of his being. To master the art of control and become a heroic martial artist, Taito must seek the guidance of others like him: the seven star-born warriors with the strength to shatter a corrupt empire. -- -- (Source: RightStuf) -- TV - Oct 8, 2007 -- 23,680 6.85
Kagewani -- -- Tomovies -- 13 eps -- Original -- Horror Mystery Supernatural Thriller -- Kagewani Kagewani -- A video blogger attempts to fake cryptid sightings to boost his views, but gets more than he bargained for when his crew is slaughtered by a real monster. Elsewhere, students find themselves preyed upon by a sandworm-like beast, initiating a desperate struggle for survival on their own school grounds. -- -- With more of these attacks from mysterious creatures occurring, researcher Sousuke Banba tasks himself with delving into the mystery. With nothing but the keyword "Kagewani" to lead him, he scours the sites of recent attacks in hopes of finding a lead to eradicating the creatures for good. However, Sousuke finds that these threats to humanity are even closer to home when the pharmaceutical company, Sarugaku, starts to encroach on his investigation. -- -- 28,956 6.41
Kara no Kyoukai 3: Tsuukaku Zanryuu -- -- ufotable -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Action Mystery Supernatural Drama Thriller -- Kara no Kyoukai 3: Tsuukaku Zanryuu Kara no Kyoukai 3: Tsuukaku Zanryuu -- On a solemn night in July 1998, teenager Fujino Asagami is mercilessly raped by a street gang in a dilapidated bar. No matter what physical or sexual abuse they deal, however, the girl regards her captors with the same apathetic expression. The next day, mangled bodies are discovered in that same building, so torn apart that investigators find it infeasible to even consider the culprit human. -- -- Elsewhere, a client request reaches Touko Aozaki's detective agency, tasking Shiki Ryougi with either capturing or killing the perpetrator of last night's incident. But soon, word spreads that a single survivor escaped the slaughter, and now the murderer is plowing down everything in their path to locate and exterminate him. A brutal race against time begins, pitting Shiki against a dangerous foe imperceptible even to her legendary eyes. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- Movie - Feb 9, 2008 -- 185,647 8.07
Kara no Kyoukai 3: Tsuukaku Zanryuu -- -- ufotable -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Action Mystery Supernatural Drama Thriller -- Kara no Kyoukai 3: Tsuukaku Zanryuu Kara no Kyoukai 3: Tsuukaku Zanryuu -- On a solemn night in July 1998, teenager Fujino Asagami is mercilessly raped by a street gang in a dilapidated bar. No matter what physical or sexual abuse they deal, however, the girl regards her captors with the same apathetic expression. The next day, mangled bodies are discovered in that same building, so torn apart that investigators find it infeasible to even consider the culprit human. -- -- Elsewhere, a client request reaches Touko Aozaki's detective agency, tasking Shiki Ryougi with either capturing or killing the perpetrator of last night's incident. But soon, word spreads that a single survivor escaped the slaughter, and now the murderer is plowing down everything in their path to locate and exterminate him. A brutal race against time begins, pitting Shiki against a dangerous foe imperceptible even to her legendary eyes. -- -- Movie - Feb 9, 2008 -- 185,647 8.07
Kimetsu no Yaiba -- -- ufotable -- 26 eps -- Manga -- Action Demons Historical Shounen Supernatural -- Kimetsu no Yaiba Kimetsu no Yaiba -- Ever since the death of his father, the burden of supporting the family has fallen upon Tanjirou Kamado's shoulders. Though living impoverished on a remote mountain, the Kamado family are able to enjoy a relatively peaceful and happy life. One day, Tanjirou decides to go down to the local village to make a little money selling charcoal. On his way back, night falls, forcing Tanjirou to take shelter in the house of a strange man, who warns him of the existence of flesh-eating demons that lurk in the woods at night. -- -- When he finally arrives back home the next day, he is met with a horrifying sight—his whole family has been slaughtered. Worse still, the sole survivor is his sister Nezuko, who has been turned into a bloodthirsty demon. Consumed by rage and hatred, Tanjirou swears to avenge his family and stay by his only remaining sibling. Alongside the mysterious group calling themselves the Demon Slayer Corps, Tanjirou will do whatever it takes to slay the demons and protect the remnants of his beloved sister's humanity. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- 1,613,187 8.60
Kimi to Boku. 2 -- -- J.C.Staff -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Romance School Shounen Slice of Life -- Kimi to Boku. 2 Kimi to Boku. 2 -- "No matter how many years go by, I'm sure we'll still be laughing together." -- -- Twins Yuta and Yuki, Kaname, and Shun have been childhood friends since kindergarten. When transfer student Chizuru joins them, their five man school life becomes all the more lively. Through the changing seasons, the boys will find laughter, surprises, love, and new encounters waiting for them. -- -- The second season of the boys growing a little every day of their invaluable daily lives is about to begin! -- -- (Source: Crunchyroll) -- TV - Apr 3, 2012 -- 74,688 7.97
Love Lab -- -- Doga Kobo -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Romance School -- Love Lab Love Lab -- At Fujisaki Girls Academy, student council president Natsuo Maki is the epitome of grace and perfection, admired by all the young girls who attend the school. One day, Riko Kurahashi walks into the student council room on an errand, only to discover Natsuo practicing her kissing techniques on a pillow, an act that is neither graceful nor elegant. Riko soon discovers that Natsuo desires more romance in her life, leading her to practice "romantic situations" in secret. -- -- Sympathizing with her, Riko agrees to help Natsuo with her love research. Named "Love Lab," the project practices the essentials of love and romance, such as bumping into each other "accidentally" and holding hands. Soon, the entire student council joins in on the fun in the Love Lab too! Through their research and real life encounters, what will they learn about romance? -- -- Weaving together funny characters and comedic situations, Love Lab builds a story of friendship and romance, while never missing a beat with the laughter. -- -- 164,263 7.35
Makai Tenshou -- -- Phoenix Entertainment -- 2 eps -- Novel -- Action Supernatural Samurai Historical -- Makai Tenshou Makai Tenshou -- Get ready for a nightmarish journey through faith and betrayal as the infamous Jubei Yagyu wields his deadly blades against the forces of good and evil alike. In an orgy of unbelievable savagery, the armies of the Shogun give no quarter as they ruthlessly slaughter their enemies. Trapped on the rocky isthmus of Amakusa, the faithful await divine aid as the demon stirs in their midst. Desperate for vengeance, a Child of Heaven becomes the emissary of Hell. -- -- Tortured by visions of Amakusa's final hour, legendary swordsman Jubei Yagyu returns to his ancestral home seeking respite from the bloody duties of a feudal retainer. Life in the village of Yagyu possesses a serenity ill-befitting days of armed rebellion and unholy alliance. For Jubei the tranquility is far too transparent, and soon, chilling rumors reach him. Four dead heroes renew their claim to life, feeding on the fear and violence of the age. Forced to take up the sword once more, Jubei returns to the path of vengeance and damnation in Ninja Resurrection! -- -- (Source: DVD cover) -- OVA - Feb 27, 1998 -- 6,041 5.23
Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt -- -- Sunrise -- 4 eps -- Manga -- Action Military Sci-Fi Space Drama Mecha -- Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt -- In Universal Century 0079, forces of the Earth Federation and Principality of Zeon engage in a battle within the Thunderbolt Sector during the One Year War. This section of space—known for its constant strikes of electricity—proves to be a deadly battlefield, as Federation pilot Io Fleming leads a charge against Zeon's ace Daryl Lorenz and his squad of snipers. With the fighters on both sides proving to be formidable soldiers, neither side is willing to back down, fighting strategically amongst the remnants of colonies. -- -- But when Io gets a hold of a prototype Gundam, Daryl will have to make a sacrifice in order to obtain enough power to crush his enemy and ensure that Zeon is victorious, or watch as his comrades are slaughtered by a single man. -- -- ONA - Dec 25, 2015 -- 41,056 7.93
Mugen no Juunin: Immortal -- -- LIDENFILMS -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Historical Supernatural Drama Martial Arts Samurai Seinen -- Mugen no Juunin: Immortal Mugen no Juunin: Immortal -- Manji is an infamous swordsman in feudal Japan who is known as the "Hundred Man Killer," as he has killed one hundred innocent men. However, there is something far more frightening than his ominous reputation: the fact that he is immortal. This is the handiwork of eight-hundred-year-old nun Yaobikuni, who placed bloodworms capable of healing almost any wound in Manji's body. -- -- To atone for his crimes, Manji resolves to kill one thousand evil men. Yaobikuni agrees to this proposal, saying that if he succeeds, she will undo his curse of immortality. Soon after this promise, Manji meets Rin Asano, a 16-year-old girl who requests Manji's assistance in killing those who slaughtered her parents. -- -- Initially reluctant, Manji refuses Rin's desperate plea. However, owing to her evident lack of strength, Manji changes his mind and agrees to protect Rin for four years. With this partnership set in stone, the two embark on a perilous journey of bloodshed, vengeance, and redemption, each to fulfill their own life's cause. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- ONA - Oct 10, 2019 -- 55,517 7.36
Mugen no Juunin: Immortal -- -- LIDENFILMS -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Historical Supernatural Drama Martial Arts Samurai Seinen -- Mugen no Juunin: Immortal Mugen no Juunin: Immortal -- Manji is an infamous swordsman in feudal Japan who is known as the "Hundred Man Killer," as he has killed one hundred innocent men. However, there is something far more frightening than his ominous reputation: the fact that he is immortal. This is the handiwork of eight-hundred-year-old nun Yaobikuni, who placed bloodworms capable of healing almost any wound in Manji's body. -- -- To atone for his crimes, Manji resolves to kill one thousand evil men. Yaobikuni agrees to this proposal, saying that if he succeeds, she will undo his curse of immortality. Soon after this promise, Manji meets Rin Asano, a 16-year-old girl who requests Manji's assistance in killing those who slaughtered her parents. -- -- Initially reluctant, Manji refuses Rin's desperate plea. However, owing to her evident lack of strength, Manji changes his mind and agrees to protect Rin for four years. With this partnership set in stone, the two embark on a perilous journey of bloodshed, vengeance, and redemption, each to fulfill their own life's cause. -- -- ONA - Oct 10, 2019 -- 55,517 7.36
Nurse Witch Komugi-chan R -- -- Tatsunoko Production -- 12 eps -- Original -- Comedy Magic Parody -- Nurse Witch Komugi-chan R Nurse Witch Komugi-chan R -- The new "slapstick" story will depict Komugi-chan and her rivals as they juggle their daily lives as students, idols, and magical girls "with laughter and tears." -- -- Komugi Yoshida is a somewhat clumsy second-year middle-school student whose strong point is her spiritedness. She performs as an idol like Kokona Saionji (her classmate and close friend) and Tsubasa Kisaragi (an idol who dresses in male clothing). However, unlike Kokona whose popularity is skyrocketing and Tsubasa with her charisma in male attire, Komugi's only gigs are low-end ones like those at the local shopping district. Still, Komugi has her "dream" as she lives her dual lives as a idol and a middle school girl. -- -- One day, a mysterious injured creature named Usa-P appears before Komugi. Komugi gives Usa-P medical treatment, and Usa-P, in consideration of Komugi's kindness, asks if she wants to be a Legendary Girl who can use magical powers. -- -- Having become a reluctant Legendary Girl, Komugi battles strange masked figures who suddenly appear! As a newly deemed Magical Nurse, she fights still more waves of masked figures. Meanwhile, a Magical Maid, a Magical Sister, and more also appear to make it a three-way battle!? Can Komugi handle the three roles of middle school girl, idol, and Magical Nurse? And, what lies ahead in these battles and her "dream"...?! -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 10,886 5.95
Owari no Seraph -- -- Wit Studio -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Military Supernatural Drama Vampire Shounen -- Owari no Seraph Owari no Seraph -- With the appearance of a mysterious virus that kills everyone above the age of 13, mankind becomes enslaved by previously hidden, power-hungry vampires who emerge in order to subjugate society with the promise of protecting the survivors, in exchange for donations of their blood. -- -- Among these survivors are Yuuichirou and Mikaela Hyakuya, two young boys who are taken captive from an orphanage, along with other children whom they consider family. Discontent with being treated like livestock under the vampires' cruel reign, Mikaela hatches a rebellious escape plan that is ultimately doomed to fail. The only survivor to come out on the other side is Yuuichirou, who is found by the Moon Demon Company, a military unit dedicated to exterminating the vampires in Japan. -- -- Many years later, now a member of the Japanese Imperial Demon Army, Yuuichirou is determined to take revenge on the creatures that slaughtered his family, but at what cost? -- -- Owari no Seraph is a post-apocalyptic supernatural shounen anime that follows a young man's search for retribution, all the while battling for friendship and loyalty against seemingly impossible odds. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 938,604 7.49
Romeo x Juliet -- -- Gonzo -- 24 eps -- Book -- Drama Fantasy Historical Romance -- Romeo x Juliet Romeo x Juliet -- On the floating continent of Neo Verona, the Montague family slaughters the entire Capulet family and seizes control of the kingdom. The true heir to the throne, Juliet Fiammata Asto Capulet, manages to escape the onslaught and is hidden away by loyalists for 14 years with hope that she may one day overthrow the cruel Montague regime. -- -- Despite having forgotten the murder of her entire family, Juliet now secretly protects the oppressed citizens of Neo Verona as a vigilante called the Red Whirlwind. During one of her escapades she meets Romeo Candorebanto Montague, the kind and selfless son of the tyrannical Prince Laertes Montague, and without knowledge of each other's background, they both fall in love at first sight. -- -- Unfortunately, however, their destiny is a cursed one: not only does each of the two families wish to obliterate the other, but an ancient secret hidden beneath Neo Verona also threatens their undying love for each other. Will they be able to defy the stars, or is this truly a love that can never be? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- TV - Apr 5, 2007 -- 158,356 7.64
Senjuushi -- -- TMS Entertainment -- 12 eps -- Game -- Action Military -- Senjuushi Senjuushi -- Despair War is a battle between ancient guns and contemporary guns. Due to a nuclear war, the world was destroyed. Under the full governance of a world empire, people are living with their freedom taken. Despite the forbidden rule of owning any weapons, there is a resistance that secretly fights against the world empire. They own ancient guns left as art and fight using these. Then, the Kijuushi appear as the souls of the ancient guns. Proud and magnificent, the "Absolute Royal" are the only ones that can give hope to this world. The story depicts the everyday life of the Kijuushi. Laughter, despair, happiness, confusion, pain; they would still pursue their own absolute loyalty to fight. What do they fight for? What should they protect? -- -- (Source: MAL News) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 11,661 4.92
Shakugan no Shana -- -- J.C.Staff -- 24 eps -- Light novel -- Action Drama Fantasy Romance School Supernatural -- Shakugan no Shana Shakugan no Shana -- The world has become a slaughtering ground for the Crimson Denizens, mysterious beings from a parallel universe who thrive on the life energy of humans. These merciless murderers only leave behind scant remainders of souls called "Torches," which are mere residues that will eventually be destroyed, along with the very fact of the victims' existence from the minds of the living. In an ambitious endeavor to put an end to this invisible, hungry massacre, warriors called Flame Hazes relentlessly fight these monsters. -- -- One fateful day, Yuuji Sakai ceases to be a regular high schooler—he becomes trapped in a crevice of time and is suddenly attacked by a Denizen. Coming to his rescue just in the nick of time is a nameless hunter who seems no different from an ordinary young girl except for her blazing eyes and burning crimson hair. However, before Yuuji can learn anything more about his situation, he discovers that he has already been reduced to a Torch—merely a scrap of memory waiting to be extinguished. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation, Geneon Entertainment USA -- 469,818 7.50
Shingeki no Kyojin -- -- Wit Studio -- 25 eps -- Manga -- Action Military Mystery Super Power Drama Fantasy Shounen -- Shingeki no Kyojin Shingeki no Kyojin -- Centuries ago, mankind was slaughtered to near extinction by monstrous humanoid creatures called titans, forcing humans to hide in fear behind enormous concentric walls. What makes these giants truly terrifying is that their taste for human flesh is not born out of hunger but what appears to be out of pleasure. To ensure their survival, the remnants of humanity began living within defensive barriers, resulting in one hundred years without a single titan encounter. However, that fragile calm is soon shattered when a colossal titan manages to breach the supposedly impregnable outer wall, reigniting the fight for survival against the man-eating abominations. -- -- After witnessing a horrific personal loss at the hands of the invading creatures, Eren Yeager dedicates his life to their eradication by enlisting into the Survey Corps, an elite military unit that combats the merciless humanoids outside the protection of the walls. Based on Hajime Isayama's award-winning manga, Shingeki no Kyojin follows Eren, along with his adopted sister Mikasa Ackerman and his childhood friend Armin Arlert, as they join the brutal war against the titans and race to discover a way of defeating them before the last walls are breached. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 2,727,137 8.50
Slayers: The Motion Picture -- -- J.C.Staff -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Adventure Comedy Magic Fantasy Shounen -- Slayers: The Motion Picture Slayers: The Motion Picture -- In this prequel movie to the Slayers televison series, Lina Inverse travels to Mipross Island with her rival/traveling companion Naga the Serpent. While they originally came for the hot springs, they soon find them selves mixed up in a conspiracy involving a mazoku named Joyrock. Years ago, he killed all of the elves that inhabited the island and absorbed their power. They are soon joined by an old mage named Rowdy Gabriev, who was in love with one of the elves slaughtered and also wants to defeat Joyrock. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films -- Movie - Jul 29, 1995 -- 21,315 7.29
Slayers: The Motion Picture -- -- J.C.Staff -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Adventure Comedy Magic Fantasy Shounen -- Slayers: The Motion Picture Slayers: The Motion Picture -- In this prequel movie to the Slayers televison series, Lina Inverse travels to Mipross Island with her rival/traveling companion Naga the Serpent. While they originally came for the hot springs, they soon find them selves mixed up in a conspiracy involving a mazoku named Joyrock. Years ago, he killed all of the elves that inhabited the island and absorbed their power. They are soon joined by an old mage named Rowdy Gabriev, who was in love with one of the elves slaughtered and also wants to defeat Joyrock. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- Movie - Jul 29, 1995 -- 21,315 7.29
Spaceship Agga Ruter -- -- - -- 4 eps -- Original -- Comedy Hentai Sci-Fi Space -- Spaceship Agga Ruter Spaceship Agga Ruter -- Follow Taiyo and Kei on their journey in space, filled with laughter and skinship as they meet new friends and enemies in their search for the missing core of Agga Ruter. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- OVA - Oct 25, 1998 -- 2,076 6.51
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