What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
— John Green
(Source: kari-shma)
Alegrias: Laugh a Little More
Considering how universal laughter is and how much of it we do, there is, relatively, not a lot of research on laughter. One of the main researchers is Robert Provine from University of Maryland. Here is a summary of some of the research he has done… some of these findings may surprise you:
- Laughter is universal: All humans in all cultures laugh
Quite true ehhh…
(Source: stateofabstraction, via psych-quotes)
There are plenty of others willing to call you a failure. A fool. A loser. A hopeless souse! Don’t you ever say it of yourself. You send out the wrong signal. That is what people pick up. Do you understand? If you care about something fight for it. You hit a wall, push through it. There’s something you need to know about failure, Tintin: You can never let it defeat you.
— Captain Haddock, The Adventures of Tintin (via quote-book)
