Best 1863 quotes in «laughter quotes» category

I would like you to accept only one prayer, and that is laughter, because when you are totally laughing you are in the present. You cannot laugh in the future and you cannot laugh in the past. All those people who have created this retarded humanity have taken away all juice, all laughter, all smiles, and dragged everybody into being inauthentic. And if you are inauthentic, insincere, you can never grow the seed that has been given to you by this great compassionate universe.

I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude. And I would not have the tears that sadness makes to flow from my every part turn into laughter. I would that my life remain a tear and a smile.

I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's emotion miss the mark of either laughter or tears. Nothing more humiliating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in disgust or contempt.

I wouldn't marry Giddon to save my life," Katsa said. "Not even to save yours." "Well." Raffin's eyes were full of laughter. "I'd leave that part out.

I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.

I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it's more than that. It's an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward - and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about.

Joy is the state of the human soul who is not identified with the personality. Happiness is a state of the soul who is identified with the personality and enjoys the life in the personality.

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.

Justin Halpern tosses lightning bolts of laughter out of his pocket like he is shooting dice in a back alley. In one sweep of a paragraph, he ranges from hysterical to disgusting to touching--and does it all seamlessly. Sh*t My Dad Says is a really, really funny book.

Just your laughter will be enough to prevent the war. Your celebration, your dance, will be enough to prevent the war. Your ecstasy, your meditation, will create a tremendous force which will be far higher because it is life-affirmative.

Keep laughing. As long as you’re laughing you still have hope.

Katsa and Po were trying to drown each other and, judging from their hoots of laughter, enjoying it immensely.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Laughter allows us to get past the fear of death.

Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans.

Laughter and happiness is what life should be about, that’s your remedy for everything.

Laughter attracts joy, releases negativity, and leads to miraculous cures.

Laughter drives shouting away.

Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagion: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Laughter is a unique medicine that places your problems in perspective, relaxes your tense muscles, reassures those around you, and helps you to enjoy life even when you don't have everything you want. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.

Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man

Laughter is taken as a sign of strength, freedom, health, beauty, youth, and happiness.

Laughter is the best medicine in the world.

Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.

Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness.

Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.

Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy. You can’t laugh and be angry, you can’t laugh and feel sad, you can’t laugh and feel envious.

Laughter means nothing unless there have been tears.

Laughter, on the other hand, " Petrarch went on, "is an explosion that tears us away from the world and throws us back into our own cold solitude. Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry. That's why I tell you yet again, and you want to keep in mind: Boccaccio doesn't understand love. Love can never be laughable. Love has nothing in common with laughter.

Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are.

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 through tears is my favorite emotion.

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.

Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life.

Laughter and tears may not persuade, but they cannot be refuted.

Laughter at oneself is always proof that god has healed us in the touchy places!

Laughter brightens the eye, increases the perspiration, expands the chest, forces the poisoned air from the least-used cells, and tends to restore that exquisite poise or balance which we call health.

Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.