A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

—William Makepeace Thackeray

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About William Makepeace Thackeray

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William Makepeace Thackeray ( THAK-ər-ee; 18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1847–1848 novel Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of British society, and the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, which was adapted for...

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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

—William Makepeace Thackeray

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

—William Makepeace Thackeray

Tis not the dying for a faith that is so hard… 'tis the living up to it that is difficult.

—William Makepeace Thackeray

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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

—William Makepeace Thackeray

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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

—William Makepeace Thackeray

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In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. It was like waking from a dream of separateness, of spurious self-isolation in a special world, the world of renunciation and supposed holiness.… This sense of liberation from an illusory difference was such a relief and such a joy to me that I almost laughed out loud.… I have the immense joy of being a member of a race in which God became incarnate.… There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.

—Thomas Merton

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The most solid advice… for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell, and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

—William Saroyan

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For all your ills I give you laughter.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

—Cullen Hightower

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