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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.
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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
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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
Humor
is an affirmation of dignity,
a declaration of one's superiority
to all that befalls one.
Roman
Gary
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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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If
I had no sense of humor,
I should long ago have committed
suicide.
Mahatma
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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
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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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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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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
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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
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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.
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If
you're not allowed to laugh in Heaven, I don't want to go there.
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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!
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