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• Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly. And life is so full of opportunities. You just need the sensitivity. And create chances for other people to laugh. Laughter should be one of the most valued, cherished qualities of human beings - because only man can laugh, no animals are capable of it. Because it is human, it must be of the highest order. To repress it is to destroy a human quality.

  Rajneesh

  Laughter, Men, Animal

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• Meditation doesn't lead you to silence; meditation only creates the situation in which the silence happens. And this should be the criterion - that whenever silence happens laughter will come into your life. A vital celebration will happen all around. You will not become sad, you will not become depressed, you will not escape from the world. You will be here in this world, but taking the whole thing as a game, enjoying the whole thing as a beautiful game, a big drama, no longer serious about it. Seriousness is a disease.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Laughter, Drama

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• And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Party, Taken, Doubt

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• It was tough to try to be serious in front of Halle Berry and Pierce Brosnan with all this stuff in my face. There's never been a character that's looked this extreme.

  Rick Yune

  Character, Trying, Berries

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.

  Kent Conrad

  People, President, Telling The Truth

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• Bankruptcy is a serious decision that people have to make.

  Herb Kohl

  People, Decision, Serious

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• In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Fighting, Past, America

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• Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

  Adam Sandler

  Boyfriend, Father, Feel Good

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• Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Serious Illness, Long, Host

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• A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions, in full recognition that every choice is a great risk with necessary consequences that are hard to bear.

  Allan Bloom

  Mean, Thinking, Life And Death

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

  Iris Murdoch

  Taken, Literature, Serious

  Iris Murdoch (1977). “Henry and Cato”, Viking Pr

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• Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.

  Halle Berry

  Laughter, Laughing, African American

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• Of course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is). What is going on in you at present is simply the beginning of the treatment. Continue seeking with cheerful seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wanted, Seeking God, Seeking

  "The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963".

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• Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Mean, Squirrels, Laughing

  Nâzım Hikmet, Mutlu Konuk Blasing (1994). “Poems of Nazim Hikmet”

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• Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.

  Thomas Merton

  Advertising, Treats, Reverence

  Thomas Merton (2002). “Seeds”

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• The playfulness that I talk about comes very slowly. You cannot just jump out of your seriousness which you have accumulated for lives. Now it has a force of its own. It is not a simple matter to relax; it is one of the most complex phenomena possible, because all that we are taught is tension, anxiety, anguish. Seriousness is the very core the society is built around. Playfulness is for small children, not for grown-up people. And I am teaching you to be children again, to be playful again. It is a quantum leap, a jump...but it takes time to understand.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Teaching, Simple

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• The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.

  Robert Frost

  Men, Style, Way

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.120, Harvard University Press

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• Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.

  Mark Haddon

  Thinking, Perfect, Darkness

  "'I'm flattered, amazed, deeply moved and sometimes a little dizzy'". The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2004.

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• People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

  Alan Kay

  Technology, People, Serious

  Creative Think talk, www.folklore.org. July 20, 1982.

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• The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

  A. P. Herbert

  Funny, Life, Anniversary

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• I do worry that beginning cartoonists could feel somewhat strangled by the increasing critical seriousness comics has received of late and feel, like younger writers, that they have to have something to "say" before they set pen to paper. Many cartoonists feel even more passionate about this idea than I do, vehemently insisting that comics are inherently "non-art" and poop humor or whatever it is they think it is, but that attitude is a little like insisting that all modern writing should always take the form of The Canterbury Tales.

  Chris Ware

  Attitude, Writing, Thinking

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.

  Lisa See

  Life, Baby, Children

  Lisa See (2010). “Shanghai Girls”, p.150, A&C Black

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• The way you really find out about the performer's seriousness about the cause is how long they stay with it when the spotlight gets turned off. You see a lot of celebrities switch gears. They go from the environment to animal rights to obesity or whatever. That I don't have a lot of respect for.

  Robert Redford

  Animal, Rights, Long

  “Robert Redford: What I've Learned” by Matthew Belloni, www.esquire.com. August 18, 2014.

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• Zen's greatest contribution is to give you an alternative to the serious man. The serious man has made the world, the serious man has made all the religions. He has created all the philosophies, all the cultures, all the moralities; everything that exists around you is a creation of the serious man. Zen has dropped out of the serious world. It has created a world of its own which is very playful, full of laughter, where even great masters behave like children.

  Rajneesh

  Laughter, Children, Philosophy

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• Write all the time. I believe in writing every day, at least a thousand words a day. We have a strange idea about writing: that it can be done, and done well, without a great deal of effort. Dancers practice every day, musicians practice every day, even when they are at the peak of their careers – especially then. Somehow, we don’t take writing as seriously. But writing – writing wonderfully – takes just as much dedication.

  Theodora Goss

  Dance, Believe, Writing

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