Quotes of Peace, Love, Humanity, Life, and Laughing

PEACE

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.  ~John Andrew Holmes

We have all taken risks in the making of war.  Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?  ~J. Ramsay MacDonald

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.  ~Napoleon Bonaparte

LOVE  ( In Honor of Valentines Day)
If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand~ Unknown

"You know you truly love someone when everyday you meet is like the first time you fall in love." ~ Unknown

" My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite."
" So long as I can breathe or I can see, so long lives your love which gives life to me."
 " When you depart from me sorrow abides, and happiness takes his leave."
 " Love from one side hurts, but love from two sides heals."
 " So dear I love him that with him, all deaths I could endure. Without him, live no life."
" If music be the food of love, play on."
 " Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service."
" I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty "
" Doubt that the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move his aides, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love."
" I would not wish any companion in the world but you ~ All From Shakespeare's Works

HUMANITY 

"Individually we are one drop, together we are an ocean" (Where did you think the cavemen all went? lololololol) ~ Unknown

"The only way to comprehend what mathmeticians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity" ~ Unknown

"When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion"

"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast"

LIFE 

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
~Hans Christian Andersen

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth. ~Martin H. Fischer

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare? ~W. H. Davies
Leisure.

The healthiest response to life is joy. ~Deepak Chopra

When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best...
And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life.
~Monty Python's Life of Brian

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
~Joseph Addison

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
~Lillian Dickson

There is no wealth but life.
~John Ruskin

The Best Things in Life are Free.
~B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson


Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
~Oscar Wilde

Here's to a long life and a merry one
A quick death and an easy one
A pretty girl and an honest one
A cold beer and another one!
~Irish Saying

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
~Zeno

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
~Oscar Wilde

Where there is love there is life.
~Indira Gandhi

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
~Reba McEntire

Laughing

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.  ~Woody Allen

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.  ~Jean Houston

Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.  ~Author Unknown

Mirth is God's medicine.  Everybody ought to bathe in it.  ~Henry Ward Beecher

Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.  ~Jack Handey, "Deep Thoughts," Saturday Night Live

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.  ~e.e. cummings

Laughter is an instant vacation.  ~Milton Berle

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!  ~Agnes Repplier

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.  ~Gordon W. Allport

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.  ~Victor Borge

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.  ~Yiddish Proverb

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing each other.  ~Alan Alda

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion.  I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.  ~Kurt Vonnegut

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.  ~Irish Proverb

Laughter gives us distance.  It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.  ~Bob Newhart

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.  ~Puzant Kevork Thomajan

There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh.  ~Françoise Sagan




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