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Laughter
has something in it common
with the ancient words of faith and
inspiration; it unfreezes pride and
unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget
themselves in the presence of something
greater than themselves.
-G.K.
Chesterton
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Whatever
it is probably won't go away, so we might as well
live and laugh through it. When we double over laughing,
we're bending so we won't break. If you think your particular
troubles are too heavy and too traumatic to laugh about,
remember that laughing is like changing a baby's diaper. It doesn't solve any problems permanently, but it
makes things more acceptable for awhile.
-Barbara
Johnson
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I am
especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made
the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
-W.E.B.
DuBois
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Strange,
when you come to think of it,
that of all the countless folk who have
lived before our time on this planet,
not one is known in history or in legend
as having died of laughter. -Max Beerbohm
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Shared laughter
creates a bond of friendship. When people laugh together,
they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, worker
and driver. They have become a single group of human
beings, enjoying their existence.
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Those who have the courage to laugh
are almost as much the
master of the world
as those who are ready to die. -Giacomo Leopardi |
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| A laugh lifestyle is predicated upon our attitude
toward the
daily stuff of life. When those tasks seem too dull to endure,
figure out a way to make them fun; get creative and entertain
yourself. If the stuff of life for you right now is not dull and
boring
but instead painful and overwhelming, find something in the midst
of the pain that makes you smile or giggle anyway. There's
always
something somewhere. . . even if you have to just
pretend to laugh until you really do!
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Humans are the only animal that laughs and weeps;
for
they are the
only animal that is struck
with the difference between
what things are
and what they might have been.
-William
Hazlitt
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| It better befits us
to laugh at life than to lament over it.
-Seneca |
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| Laughter is the language of the soul.
-Pablo Neruda |
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The
faculty of laughter is not in
the brain but in
the heart.
Laurent Joubert |
The most completely lost of all days
is
the one on which we have not laughed.
Nicolas Chamfort
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| With the fearful strain that is on
me day and night,
if I did not laugh, I should die.
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Laughter
lifts us over high ridges and lights up dark valleys
in a way that makes life so much easier. It is a priceless gem,
a gift of release and healing direct from Heaven.
-Alan
Cohen
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Laughter is the shortest
distance
between two people. -Victor
Borge |
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| I want to make people
laugh--so they will
begin
to see things seriously. -William Zinser |
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| Always laugh when you
can; it is cheap medicine.
Merriment is a philosophy not
well understood.
It is the sunny side of existence. -Lord
Byron |
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| Laughter
can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment,
and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that
always lie ahead. -Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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I have known sorrow--therefore I
May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily
Than those who never sorrowed upon earth
And know not laughter's worth.
I have known laughter--therefore I
May sorrow with you far more tenderly
Than those who never guess how sad a thing
Seems merriment to one heart's suffering.
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The young person who has
not wept is a savage,
and the old one who will not laugh
is a fool. -George
Santayana
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Nothing
shows our character
more than what we laugh at. -Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe |
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Of all the things God created,
I am often most grateful He created laughter.
-Charles Swindoll |
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We know
the degree of refinement in people by
the matter they laugh
at and the ring of the laugh.
-George
Meredith |
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Teach us
delight in simple things,
And Mirth that has no bitter springs;
Forgiveness free of evil done,
And Love to all men 'neath the sun.
Rudyard Kipling |
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We cannot really love anybody
with whom we
never laugh. -Agnes
Repplier |
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A clown may be the
first in the kingdom of heaven,
if he or she has helped lessen
the sadness of human life. -Rabbi Baroka |
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Humor is a prelude
to faith and
Laughter is the beginning of prayer.
-
Reinhold Niebuhr |
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From quiet
homes and first beginning,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth the wear of winning,
But laughter and the love of friends.
Hillaire Belloc |
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Those
who can't laugh at themselves
leave the job to others. -anon |
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The most valuable
sense of humor is the kind that
enables a person to see
instantly what it isn't safe to laugh at.
-Anon |
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The
perception of the Comic is a tie of sympathy
with
other people, a pledge of sanity. We must
learn
by laughter
as well as by tears and terror. -Ralph
Waldo Emerson |
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When we
begin to take our failures non-seriously,
it means we are ceasing
to
be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh
at ourselves. -Katherine
Mansfield |
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If
I want to feel younger and look younger, then it's only natural that
part
of my daily routine is to laugh more. Laughing gives the muscles of my
face,
chest, and abdomen a workout. A hearty laugh stimulates my heart rate,
causes me to breathe deeply, and releases happiness hormones, my
endorphins.
Laughter is one of the ways I express my gratitude to God. As I laugh,
I
release the gladness of my soul into the environment--creating
something
that's good for me and good for all those around me.
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A sense of
humor can help you overlook the unattractive,
tolerate the unpleasant,
cope with the unexpected,
and smile through the unbearable.
-Moshe Waldoks |
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Humor is the
healthy way of feeling "distance"
between one's self and the
problem, a way of standing off
and looking at one's problem with
perspective. -Rollo
May |
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A person without a sense of
humor is like
a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the
road. -Henry Ward Beecher |
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Humor
is my sword and my shield.
It protects me. You can
open a door
with humor and drive a truck right through.
-Alan
Simpson |
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Humor
is an affirmation of dignity,
a declaration of one's superiority
to all that befalls one.
-Roman
Gary |
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The
giggles in life usually come from little things.
If we train ourselves
to look for them, see them, and then giggle with them or even at them,
we get a “perk.”
Seeing these potential breaks from routine sometimes
requires that we adjust the lenses through which we see life.
That
adjustment can be as simple as heightening our awareness of the quirky
and unusual around us.
Giggle potential is everywhere; we just need
to slow down long enough to see it.
-Marilyn Meberg |
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If
I had no sense of humor,
I should long ago have committed
suicide. -Mohandas
Gandhi |
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Total
absence of humor
renders life impossible. -Colette |
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A sense of
humor judges one's actions and the actions of others
from a wider
reference. . . it pardons shortcomings;
it consoles failure. It
recommends moderation. -Thornton
Wilder |
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Seriousness
is equated with responsibility, when, in fact, I think we
would be much more responsible if we had more joy and laughter
in our lives. -Deepak Chopra |
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Laughter
is the language of the young at heart and the antidote to what ails
us.
No drugstore prescription is required; laughter is available to anyone
at any time.
Laughter's benefits are felt immediately. With large doses, the
benefits show
on our face, on our body language, and in the spring in our
step. God gave us
this capacity to be tickled way deep down inside. Giggles are as
contagious
as a viral disease. And you know what? You don't have to
be happy to laugh.
You become happy because you laugh.
-Barbara
Johnson |
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The child in
you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around
people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children
instinctively
know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
-Wayne
Dyer |
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I get
many poems and letters containing healthy humor
that grows out of the author's affliction. These
wise people are seeing life in its fullest and not
making the affliction the central point of their
existence. Laughter can always remove fear and anxiety,
no matter what the situation. You can't suffer when
you are laughing. The two just can't be experienced
together. It has to be one or the other, and joy
always overcomes fear. Love creates, but laughter is
the cement that holds our lives together.
-Bernie
Siegel |
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If
you're not allowed to laugh in Heaven, I don't want to go there.
-Martin
Luther |
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Don't
take yourself too seriously. It just makes life all the harder.
It'll all come out in the wash anyway, because God's glory eventually
will eclipse everything that goes wrong on this earth. Lighten
up
and learn to laugh at yourself. None of us is infallible.
We make
mistakes in life, and more often than not they're funny.
Sometimes, being your own source of comedy is the most fun of all.
-Luci
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It is time to come to your senses. You are to live and to
learn to laugh.
You are to learn to listen to the cursed radio music of life and to
reverence
the spirit behind it and to laugh at its distortions. So there
you are.
More will not be asked of you. -Herman Hesse |
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What frightens
me possibly more than anything else in our culture is our lack
of humor. We take everything so damn seriously. We've
forgotten how to laugh.
Think back, those of you who are my age and beyond, how much laughter
there
used to be at home. I don't hear much laughter anymore. . . .
We've forgotten
how to be joyous, and worse than that, we've forgotten and don't
accept our
own madness. Let's face it: each of us is just a little
cuckoo. Oh, the joy
of getting in touch with that cuckooness again!
-Leo
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