#laughter

Inventory: "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

#contentment #curiosity #doubt #envy #foes

I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#life

Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories. ↗

— Dave Brenner

#laughter #memories #life

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#laughter #love #oblivious #love

Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#love #love

If you can't laugh, you won't make it. ↗

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

#love

I have done this--made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#love #power #love

Ariel laughed and now her goose bumps had goose bumps. ↗

— Lisa Mantchev

#laughter #men #men-and-women #men

Life isn't about the ups and downs. It doesn't matter that you have no money, a crappy marriage, or annoying children. Life is all about the now, and how you spend it. Live it well, laugh it up, and love as much as you can. Your life will be over before you know it. ↗

— Dixie Carnley

#life #love #life

Well, I know," she said. "You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be played in the movies by Frank Sinatra and John Wayne or some of those other glamorous, war-loving, dirty old men. And war will look just wonderful, so we'll have a lot more of them. And they'll be fought by babies like the babies upstairs." So then I understood. It was war that made her so angry. She didn't want her babies or anybody else's babies killed in wars. And she thought wars were partly encouraged by books and movies. So I held up my right hand and I made her a promise: "Mary," I said, "I don't think this book of mine will ever be finished. I must have written five thousand pages by now, and thrown them all away. If I ever do finish it, though, I give you my word of honor: there won't be a part for Frank Sinatra or John Wayne. "I tell you what," I said, "I'll call it 'The Children's Crusade.'" She was my friend after that. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#slaughterhouse-five #love