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“I have known sorrow - therefore I May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily Than those who never sorrowed upon earth And know not laughter's worth. I have known laughter - therefore I May sorrow with you far more tenderly Than those who never guess how sad a thing Seems merriment to one heart's suffering.”

Knows Heart May Seems Earth Suffering Known Laughing Sorrow Laughter Merriment

Author:Theodosia Garrison

“Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.”

Earth Suffering Sides Tears Laughter

Author:Alice Walker

“Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.”

Stills Earth Sky Son Mountain Ambition Laughter Raises Vain Toil Madmen Surveys My Ambition

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope Esq

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope Esq

“Seventy-five percent of our energy around the earth is being poured into war efforts. Are we servants of death and destruction? This 75 percent of energy could be poured into life, into the service of life-and there will be laughter, and there will be greater health, and there will be more wealth, more food. There will be no poverty. There is no need for poverty to exist at all.”

Needs War Motivational Earth Energy Wealth Effort Poverty Five Greater Laughter Percent Destruction Servant Seventies

Author:Rajneesh

“The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth.”

Earth Girl Sound Laughter Delightful

Book:De Quincey's works

Source: De Quincey's works

“A precious place is Paradise and none may know its worth, But Eden ever longeth for the knicknacks of the earth. The angels grow quite wistful over worldly things below; They hear the hurdy-gurdies in the Candle Makers Row. They listen for the laughter from the antics of the earth; They lower pails from heaven's walls to catch the milk-maids mirth.”

Knows May Earth Heaven Grows Wall Laughter Angel Paradise Makers Milk Candle Worldly Eden Maids Mirth Antics Worldly Things

Book:The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems

Source: The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems

“I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.”

“The culture of the United States has flooded the world. It's the inevitable result of a powerful culture, art. We've got an instinctive touch when it comes to the popular mind because we've had no aristocracy. It is a democratic country. And we know without knowing it, without bothering to understand it, how to reach ordinary people, sometimes with the most vulgar, worthless junk on the face of the earth, but we know how to do it [laughter].”