E. E. Cummings on laughter
E. E. Cummings134 quotes“Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise.”
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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings As small as a world as large as alone.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Love is the whole and more than all.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings As small as a world as large as alone.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Love is the whole and more than all.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings As small as a world as large as alone.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Love is the whole and more than all.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings
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Simple moments, full of laughter, and loved ones, make life rich.
Alexandra Heather FossAlexandra Heather Foss There should be laughter, and kisses and comfort.
Alexandra Heather FossAlexandra Heather Foss Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
Henri BergsonHenri Bergson Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
Henri BergsonHenri Bergson It seems that laughter needs an echo.
Henri BergsonHenri Bergson Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
Henri BergsonHenri Bergson A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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