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“Laughter is inner jogging.”
― Norman Cousins

“Appreciation can make a day, even change a life.”
― Margaret Cousins

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.”
― Viktor Emil Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”
― Jane Austen

“I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Better be without sense than misapply it as you do. ”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise. ”
― Jane Austin

“You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.”
― Max Lucado, The Christmas Candle

“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?”
― Bob Hope

“I bought my brother some gift-wrap for Christmas. I took it to the gift wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping.”
― Steven Wright

“In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukkah!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!”
― Dave Barry

“I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books.”
― Audrey Niffenegger , The Time Traveler's Wife

“God bless us, every one!”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?"
"I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Come, then," returned the nephew gaily. "What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Oh, we're playing nice now? Shall we have tea first? Brew up a nice pot of kiss-my-ass?”
― Julie Kagawa, The Iron King

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.”
― Ellen DeGeneres

“Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Three Weeks with My Brother

“We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“When man has reached the periphery of the spiderweb of his own reason and logic, he can find the ropes of revelation upon which he can climb upward forever and ever.”
― Neal A. Maxwell