Laughter Quotes - Page 10

It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.

Perhaps the greatest magic of the human spirit is the ability to laugh, at ourselves, at each other, and at our sometimes hopeless situation. Laughter normalized our lives

Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. However, a lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey. A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful song at the intrusion of an annoying woodpecker. Whenever you should question your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.

Eating, drinking. sleeping, pro-creating. A little laughter, a lot of tears. Is this all there is to life? Don't die like a worm on the surface of the planet. WAKE UP and be all that you can be, you are so much more than that.

In the darkest of times, laughter helps revolutionize our perspective.

Smile at a stranger. See what happens.

When you see what is not real, this laughter comes

I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter.

laugh a lot. It burns a lot of calories.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.

Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.

One of the things that authoritarians hate is the sound of laughter.

We've shared so much laughter, so many tears. We're a spiritual bond that grows stronger each year. We're not sisters by birth, but we knew from the start, something put us together to be sisters by heart.

Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk alone among those hills or in the woods or along the long, white, bleached sands, in that solitude you would know what meditation is. The ecstasy of solitude comes when you are not frightened to be alone no longer belonging to the world or attached to anything. Then, like that dawn that came up this morning, it comes silently, and makes a golden path in the very stillness, which was at the beginning, which is now, and which will be always there.

As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot protect it then; and walls which have remained impenetrable to cannon have fallen before a roar of laughter or a hiss of contempt.

Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.

People who stop laughing are always the ones who get hurt.

Nothing you wear is more important than your smile.

Laughter can bring a new perspective.