“Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Variant: A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
Source: Les Misérables
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English poet and writer 1878–1967Related quotes
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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.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“What is life without laughter?”
Trenton Lee Stewart The Mysterious Benedict Society
Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society
“Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
As quoted in "The Science of Second-Guessing", The New York Times (12 December 2004)
“Anything a person chases in life runs away.”
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