"Laughter lifts our spirits, surprises and sometime shocks our expectations, allows us to cross boundaries, reorders our priorities, and gives us access to ideas and associations we rarely ever thought to have."

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Source : Jean Houston (1996). “A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story”, Harpercollins

Jean Houston

#Laughter Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Giving Quotes

“This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.”

Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.244, Simon and Schuster
“It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias”

Source : Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.59, Criss Jami
“The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff.”

Source : Steven Brust (2003). “The Paths of the Dead: Book One of the Viscount of Adrilankha”, p.396, Macmillan
“My brothers and my sisters, do always persevere in true and earnest prayer, and the Lord will hear you. Believe that the highest revelations of science are conformable to the doctrine of the efficacy of prayer; that in this doctrine the highest philosophy harmonizes with the purest devotion.”

Source : Sermon at Hackney Unitarian Church, London, April 24, 1870.
“What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes.”
“How is it possible for oneâ€™s heart to be certain that one is going to meet Allah, that Allah sees and hears all that he does, and knows his secret open affairs, and that he will be made to stand before Allah, answerable for all his deeds - how can one be certain and aware of all of this, and yet persist upon things which displease Allah; persist upon abandoning Allahâ€™s orders, neglecting His rights, and yet claim that he has good expectation of Allah?”
“Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.”
“There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.”

Source : "Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society". Essay by Antonin Artaud, 1947.

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