“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds.                                                                 

See the world.                                                                                                                        

It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees,

ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be

related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping

its life away. To hell with that, shake the tree and knock the great cloth down on his ass.”

Ray Bradbury-Fahrenheit 451

 

But I repeat, you look for the joy. Look for the light of God that’s hitting

your life, and you will find sparkles you didn’t know were there.

-Barbara Johnson

 

“Father Peregrine, won’t you ever be serious?”

“Not until the good Lord is.

Oh don’t look so terribly shocked, please.

The Lord is not serious.

In fact, it is a little hard to know just what else He is except

 loving.

And love has to do with humor, doesn’t it?

For you cannot love someone unless you put up with him,

can you? And you cannot put up with someone constantly

unless you can laugh at him.

Isn’t that true?

And certainly we are ridiculous little animals wallowing in the fudge bowl,

and God must love us all the more because

we appeal to His humor.”

Ray Bradbury – Illustrated Man