Quotes by Laughter A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter. Alan Watts buddhist laughter christian There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substiutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelming uncanny fact of mere existence. Alan Watts laughter miracle believe I was talking to a Zen master the other day and he said, "You shall be my disciple."I looked at him and said, "Who was Buddha's teacher?" He looked at me in a very odd way for a moment and then he burst into laughter and handed me a piece of clover. Alan Watts laughter spiritual teacher I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it. Albert Brooks laughter thinking The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple of years to even understand how my art form I could process any of this. When the world changed, eliciting laughter with subjects that were funny to me before 9/11 just didnt seem good enough. Albert Brooks laughter couple art To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. Albert Camus laughter happy happiness I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards. Albert Camus laughter attitude laughing Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water. Albert Schweitzer laughter music reality Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice Albert Schweitzer laughter voice giving Maybe this world is another planet's Hell. Aldous Huxley laughter sarcastic funny Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. Aldous Huxley laughter emotional pain What a force is laughter. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn force laughter I'd been so set on an escape that was now impossible, and the only form of freedom left to me was death. It was a terrible kind of freedom—one from misery and pain, yes, but also one from lightness and laughter and life. It was an absence of everything. Alexander Gordon Smith laughter pain impossible I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing! … I have been able to hear a shadow, and I have even perceived by ear the passage of a cloud across the sun's disk. Alexander Graham Bell laughter clouds laughing The laughers are a majority. Alexander Pope majority laughter The man that loves and laughs must sure do well. Alexander Pope laughter laughing men 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. Alexander Pope laughter ambition son Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. Alexander Pope laughter truth happiness Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man. Alexander Pope laughter eye life Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. Alexander Pope laughter happiness men «1234567891011»