"Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully."

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Max Eastman

#Pain Quotes #Laughter Quotes #Instinct Quotes

“My concentration and focus level tends to go down sometimes when I'm in a bad mood.”
“I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.”

Source : "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 50), 2000.
“I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning.”
“What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.”
“There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side.”
“It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.”
“It is always and everywhere the province of the central bank to monetize any spending, the government's or the private sector's, by printing enough money to pay for it in depreciated dollars.”
“Don't block your blessings. Don't let doubt stop you from getting where you want to be.”

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