Quotes about laughter
laughter animal opportunity
Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly. And life is so full of opportunities. You just need the sensitivity. And create chances for other people to laugh. Laughter should be one of the most valued, cherished qualities of human beings - because only man can laugh, no animals are capable of it. Because it is human, it must be of the highest order. To repress it is to destroy a human quality. Rajneesh
laughter lying light
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow. Socrates
laughter hysterical break
If he didn't get out of here - right now - Harrier was either going to break into hysterical laughter or strangle somebody. Mercedes Lackey
laughter real hero
In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn't in real life. My characters lived through the horror and degradation of the cruelty of others and they not only survived, they thrived. They gave me hope and laughter, and they kept me going in spite of everything else. They were my heroes. Sherrilyn Kenyon
laughter may panic
Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that laughter is an antidote to apprehension and panic. Norman Cousins
laughter healthy adequate
An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person.
laughter humor exercise
What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . . form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.
laughter jogging aging
Laughter is a form of internal jogging.
laughter healthy way
Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
laughter block negative
Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease.
laughter moving expectations
Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.
laughter expression play
Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and laughter. Mike Yaconelli
laughter grief way
I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter. Neil Jordan
laughter self tears
Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter. John Sterling
laughter school thinking
Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked. 'I don't see how it could be any other way,' said Lee. 'Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn't in time. John Steinbeck
laughter women habit
it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.
laughter sadness covenant-with-god
While it only takes one spouse to be friendly, it takes both spouses to be friends. When both spouses are unfriendly, the marriage is marked by conflict and coldness. When one spouse is friendly and the other is unfriendly, the marriage is marked by selfishness and sadness. But when both spouses each make a deep, heartfelt covenant with God to continually seek to become a better friend, increasing love and laughter mark the marriage. Mark Driscoll
laughter thinking laughing
What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy. Marie Corelli
laughter grief love-you
Day just smiles at me, an expression so sad that it breaks through my numbness, and I begin to cry. Those bright blue eyes. Before me is the boy who has bandaged my wounds on the streets of Lake, who has guarded his family with every bone in his body, who has stayed by my side in spite of everything, the boy of light and laughter and life, of grief and fury and passion, the boy whose fate is intertwined with mine, forever and always. "I love you," he whispers. "Can you stay awhile? Marie Lu
laughter erotic
Shared laughter is erotic too. Marge Piercy
laughter order people
The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has been considered cheap, and laughter something for the lower orders. But British aristocrats didn't care a damn about what people thought of them, so they made humour acceptable. Theodore Zeldin
laughter heart men
There is nothing more distressing ... than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. Such laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes not merely the vacant mind, but the heart in which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition. Theodore Roosevelt
laughter thinking laughing
I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another? Theodore Hesburgh
laughter israel years
Were I to sum up the Basle Congress in a word- which I shall guard against pronouncing publicly- it would be this: 'At Basle, I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today, I would be answered by universal laughter. If not in 5 years, certainly in 50, everyone will know it.' Theodor Herzl
laughter spring pride
laughter, that distinctively human emotion, laughter which springs from trust in the other, from willingness to put oneself momentarily in the other's place, even at one's own expense, is the special emotional basis of democratic procedures, just as pride is the emotion of an aristocracy, shame of a crowd that rules, and fear of a police state. Margaret Mead
laughter laughing advice
Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, an' it keeps on laughin'. Kin Hubbard
laughter laughing
Laughter makes me come alive. Either being made to laugh or igniting it. Melissa Rauch
laughter hate weight
Love cannot exorcise the gifts of hate. / Hate cannot exorcize what has no weight, / But laughter we can never over-rate. May Sarton
laughter past doe
Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend to be remembered with laughter?
laughter play brain
Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play. Max Eastman
laughter together speech
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
laughter mean laughing
When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh? Max Frisch
laughter believe emotional
I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin. Matt LeBlanc