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Laughter is carbonated holiness.

— Anne Lamott

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You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

..I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, and then waiting around for the rat to die.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

William Hazlitt Lectures on the English Comic Writers (1819)

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Barth The Harper Book of Quotations (1993)

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
And every grin so merry draws one out.

John Wolcot

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