“Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.”
Variant: A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
Source: Les Misérables
“Such laughter, like sunshine on the deep sea, is very beautiful to me.”
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Poet
"Inferior Religions" (1917), cited from Lawrence Rainey (ed.) Modernism: An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005) pp. 208-9.
Letter to Sister Mary James Power (1 October 1934); published in The Wild God of the World : An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers (2003), edited by Albert Gelpi, p. 189 - 190
Context: I think that one may contribute (ever so slightly) to the beauty of things by making one's own life and environment beautiful, as far as one's power reaches. This includes moral beauty, one of the qualities of humanity, though it seems not to appear elsewhere in the universe. But I would have each person realize that his contribution is not important, its success not really a matter for exultation nor its failure for mourning; the beauty of things is sufficient without him.
(An office of tragic poetry is to show that there is beauty in pain and failure as much as in success and happiness.)
“In life, the glory lies not in the quarry, but in the chase.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
As quoted in "The Science of Second-Guessing", The New York Times (12 December 2004)
“Anything a person chases in life runs away.”
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl-A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
