"Perhaps the way to succeed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity that the only way to live is to laugh until you think your heart will break."

-- Meg Rosoff

#Heart Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.”
“The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.”
“Day by day we are building for eternity ... Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come.”

Source : Rebecca Ruter Springer (2009). “My Dream of Heaven: A Nineteenth Century Spiritual Classic”, p.21, Harrison House Publishers
“The air you breathe in a picture is not necessarily the same as the air out of doors.”
“None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.”
“What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in serious music.”

Source : "Sovetskoye Iskusstvo", quoted in "Shostakovich: A Life", transl. by Laurel Fay (2000) p. 77, November 5, 1934.
“God hath put no such difference between the Male and Female as man would make.”

Source : Margaret Fell (1989). “Womens Speaking”
“Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles. "May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply.”

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