“Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me.” IfsLittlesHardLightLife IsFightingDarknessLaughingEasierBattleDeterminationDeterminedActivismGood FightFight The Good Fight Author:Sojourner Truth
“While there may not be spiritual oppression involved in your battle [against lust], there'll always be opposition. The enemy is constantly near your ear. He doesn't want you to win this fight, and he knows the lies that so often break a man's confidence and his will to win. Expect to hear lies and plenty of them. satan's lie: 'You're the only one dealing with this problem. If anyone ever finds out, you'll be the laughingstock of the church!' The truth: Most men deal with this problem, so no one will laugh.” IfsKnowsMenWantMayProblemSpiritualLyingFightingWinningChurchDealsEnemyBreakLaughingInvolvedBattleEarsLustOppressionPlentySatanOppositionWill To Win Author:Steve Arterburn
“If you haven't got a sense of humor you're making your life a hundred times harder. It doesn't matter what happens to you, if you can have a laugh about it, and don't take yourself so serious, you have the battles halfway won.” IfsMatterHappensLaughingHavensSeriousBattleHundredHarderSense Of HumorHalfwayHave A Laugh Author:Jack Bruce
“You have to get hurt. That's how you learn. The strongest people out there, the ones who laugh the hardest with a genuine smile, those are the people who have fought the toughest battles. Because they've decided that they're not going to let anything hold them down, they're showing the world who's boss. One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.” PeopleWorldHurtLaughingBattleDecidedTransformationPreparedWaveGenuineEndlessHardestBossStrongestBe PreparedGenuine Smiles Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That's how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it's a release, for lack of a better word.” GivingI CanProblemDealsTalkingLaughingComedyFansMomBattleWeightMy MomHonestlyPassingPassingsReleaseTherapyChestsPassing Away Author:Kevin Hart
“The first thing you'd have to do is be able to actually prove this linkage here, that there is an effort to sabotage, and what anybody would do is they would just laugh at you."This is because [Donald] Trump is elected; it's what Trump did."This is a battle for the minds and hearts of the American people is what's going on here. Somebody who knows more than I do is gonna have to proclaim that it's treasonous. But there's no question that they are trying to take Trump out.” PeopleKnowsTryingMindFirstsHeartAbleEffortLaughingTrumpBattleProveHeart And MindSabotageLinkages Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Drualt took Freya's warm hand, Her strong hand, Her sword hand, And pressed it to his lips, Pressed it to his heart. Come with me,' he said. Come with me to battle, My love. Tarry at my side. Stay with me When battle is done. Tarry at my side. Laugh with me, And walk with me The long, long way. Tarry with me, My love, at my side.” WayHeartLongSaidDoneHandsStrongSidesWalksLaughingBattleLipsWarmLong WayStay With MeWalk With MeStrong Hands Author:Gail Carson Levine
“I have seen something like it happen in battle. A man was coming at me, I at him, to kill. Then came a sudden great gust of wind that wrapped out cloaks over our swords and almost over our eyes, so that we could do nothing to one another but must fight the wind itself. And that ridiculous contention, so foreign to the business we were on, set us both laughing, face to face - friends for a moment - and then at once enemies again and forever.” MenMomentsHappensEyeFacesFightingEnemyLaughingForeverWindBattleRidiculousFace To FaceCloaksContentionAlmost Over Author:C. S. Lewis
“If we come to sleep we are His drowsy ones And if we come to wake we are in His hands If we come to weeping we are His cloud full of raindrops And if we come to laughing we are His lightning in that moment If we come to anger and battle it is the reflection of His wrath And if we come to peace and pardon it is the reflection of His love Who are we in this complicated world?” IfsWorldMomentsHandsSleepLaughingBattleReflectionCloudsComplicatedThat MomentLightningHis LoveWrathWeepingPardonRaindropsDrowsyComplicated World Author:Rumi
“What are you doing?" "Ya!" said Jane, whirling around, her hands held up menacingly. It was Mr. Nobley with coat, hat, and cane, watching her with wide eyes. Jane took several quick (but oh so casual) steps away from Martin's window. "Um, did I just say, 'Ya'?" "You just said 'Ya,'" he confirmed. "If I am not mistaken, it was a battle cry, warning that you were about to attack me. I, uh..." She stopped to laugh. "I wasn't aware until this precise and awkward moment that when startled in a startled in a strange place, my instincts would have me pretend to be a ninja.” IfsSaidMomentsHandsEyeStepsLaughingCryStrangeBattleWindowInstinctWideHatsWarningAwkwardMistakenCoatsPreciseJaneCasualNinjaStrange PlacesBattle CryWide Eyes Book:Austenland: A Novel Source: Austenland: A Novel
“Call listened with amusement--not that the incident hadn't been terrible. Being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a Yankee or not. But then, amusing things happened in battle, as they did in the rest of life. Some of the funniest things he had ever witnessed had occurred during battles. He had always found it more satisfying to laugh on a battlefield than anywhere else, for if you lived to laugh on a battlefield, you could feel you had earned the laugh. But if you just laughed in a saloon, or at a social, the laugh didn't reach deep.” IfsFeelsFoundSocialLaughingFateHappenedTerribleBattleLaughedSatisfyingYankeesAmusementIncidentsAmusingBattlefieldsRest Of LifeSaloons Author:Larry McMurtry
“We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey declares its existence, screeching a maniac's gibberish. Our entire world, always doing battle against the silence and obscurity of death.” WorldChildrenExistenceSilenceLaughingBattleSingingBirdNoiseLionsMonkeysTigersJungleObscurityManiacsHyenasAmbient Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in a day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in days of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.” KnowsWorldGivingHumansSoulSelfFacesFightingSpeakBehindsLaughingWorstHonestSorrowComfortBattleDifficultyBlessedFaultsProsperitySpiteHuman SoulConceitHonest TruthReproof Book:The Works of Charles Kingsley Source: The Works of Charles Kingsley