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Of course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is). What is going on in you at present is simply the beginning of the treatment. Continue seeking with cheerful seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.
C. S. Lewis
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Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.
Saul Bellow
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Seriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that.
Leonard Cohen
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Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
Will Rogers
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Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.
Philip Roth
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Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.
Booth Tarkington
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If you will learn the seriousness of life, and its beauty also, live for your husband; make him happy.
Fredrika Bremer
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When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.
Plato
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
Al Franken
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Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.
George Santayana
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If you are not serious, people will sense it.
Bela Lugosi
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humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Humor is not the opposite of seriousness. Humor is the opposite of despair.
Conrad Hyers
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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
Oscar Wilde
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From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.
Georg Solti
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In all seriousness, I'm flattered and humbled to have been asked to reprise my role as Luke in the 'Veronica Mars' movie.
Sam Huntington
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If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs, it's just possible that you haven't grasped the situation.
Jean Kerr
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You are nearing the land that is life; you will recognize it by its seriousness.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Seriousness is a sickness... Existense is pure playfulness
Rajneesh
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Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.
Brian Eno
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I still am mystified about why Donald Trump is out there tweeting praise of Vladimir Putin, and still kind of denying and dismissing whether the hacking happened or the seriousness of it.
David Corn