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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
Victor Hugo
Laughter
is the sun
that drives winter
from the human face.
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Charles Swindoll
Of all the things God created,
I am often most grateful He created laughter. |
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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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Those
who can't laugh at themselves
leave the job to others.
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Nothing
shows our character
more than what we laugh at.
Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe |
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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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Rabbi Baroka
A clown may be the
first in the kingdom of heaven,
if he or she has helped lessen
the sadness of human life. |
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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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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!
Marilyn Meberg |
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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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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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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.
Theodosia Garrison |
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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
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Agnes
Repplier |
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Humor is a prelude
to faith and
Laughter is the beginning of prayer.
Reinhold Niebuhr |
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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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| Abraham Lincoln
With the fearful strain that is on
me day and night,
if I did not laugh, I should die. |
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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.
W.
Grant Lee |
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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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Giacomo Leopardi
Those who have the courage to laugh
are almost as much the
master of the world
as those who are ready to die. |
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Laughter is the language of the soul.
Pablo Neruda |
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It better befits us
to laugh at life than to lament over it.
Seneca |
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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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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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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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