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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
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I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.
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What I find interesting is how close you can run the laughter along the seam of seriousness, and occasionally cross it, so that half the house genuinely doesn't know whether to laugh or cry. Custard pie humour is fairly universal, but at the other end, which I'm more interested in, there's the humour that hovers on the darkness, that walks in the shadow of something else, not always that obvious.
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As I took a step toward him your eyes met mine and I saw the silent pleading for forgiveness or acceptance. I wasn't sure which. All I knew was you were Sawyer's now. My best friend was gone. I envied him and hated him for the first time that day. He'd finaly won the one prize I thought was mine.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
