#aught

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane. ↗

— Robert Frost

#laugh

The earth laughs in flowers. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#laughter #laugh

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#goodness #laughter #laugh

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. ↗

— Billy Joel

#sadness #saints #sin #virtue #sad

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#daughters #expectations #fathers #ideals #perception

All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter. ↗

— Hubert Selby Jr.

#frustration #laughter #dreams

De pronto la miro y ya no está. Vuelvo a mirarla, la define su ausencia. Ha ido a unirse a lago que le da fuerza y no sé lo que es. No puedo seguirla, no entiendo hacia qué espacio invisible se ha dirigido, qué aire inefable la resguarda y la aísla; desde luego ya no está en el mundo y por más que manoteo no me ve, permanece siempre fuera de mi alcance. Sé que mi amor la sustenta, claro, pero su ausencia es sólo suya y en ella no tengo cabida. ↗

— Elena Poniatowska

#fragility #love #mother-daughter-relationship #relación-madre-e-hija #vínculos

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#caught #get #i #music #reading

I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#dangerous #date #daughters #end #guy

You're not supposed to laugh at your own father. Ever. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#parents #respect #respect