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Laughter Quotes

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Life does not come with instructions on how to live, but it does come with trees, sunsets, smiles and laughter, so enjoy your day.
Debbie Shapiro

Life does not arrive with a playbook on how to exist, but it does deliver nature's beauty, such as trees, sunsets, grins and chuckles, so savor your day.
Authors on Laughter Quotes: Rajneesh Friedrich Nietzsche Deepak Chopra Henri Bergson Mark Twain Norman Cousins Erma Bombeck Khalil Gibran Madeleine L'Engle Maya Angelou Walt Disney Rumi Max Beerbohm Anne Lamott Charles Bukowski Lord Chesterfield Thomas Carlyle Jim Butcher Ralph Waldo Emerson Milan Kundera Joseph Addison William Shakespeare Alan Watts Reinhold Niebuhr John Cleese George R. R. Martin Max Eastman Alexander Pope Allen Klein Yakov Smirnoff Oliver Goldsmith Seneca the Younger George Bernard Shaw
2.
Love, friendship, laughter... Some of the best things in life really are free.
Bob Marley

"Affection, camaraderie, mirth... Many of the greatest pleasures in life are without charge."
3.
What Happens What happens when your soul Begins to awaken Your eyes And your heart And the cells of your body To the great Journey of Love? First there is wonderful laughter And probably precious tears And a hundred sweet promises And those heroic vows No one can ever keep. But still God is delighted and amused You once tried to be a saint. What happens when your soul Begins to awake in this world To our deep need to love And serve the Friend? O the Beloved Will send you One of His wonderful, wild companions - Like Hafiz.
Hafez

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Of everything I have seen, it's you I want to go on seeing: of everything I've touched, it's your flesh I want to go on touching. I love your orange laughter. I am moved by the sight of you sleeping. What am I to do, love, loved one? I don't know how others love or how people loved in the past. I live, watching you, loving you. Being in love is my nature.
Pablo Neruda

5.
We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.
Maya Angelou

We necessitate Delight as we require oxygen. We necessitate Affection as we demand H2O. We depend on each other as we rely upon the planet we inhabit.
6.
Laughter is the fireworks of the soul.
Josh Billings

Mirth is the pyrotechnics of the spirit.
7.
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
Steven Wright

'You can't have the world in your pocket; where would you keep it?'
8.
Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
Hippocrates

9.
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Observe how someone laughs to understand the person within.
10.
There’s something amazing about this life. The very same worldly attribute that causes us pain is also what gives us relief: Nothing here lasts. What does that mean? It means that the breathtakingly beautiful rose in my vase will wither tomorrow. It means that my youth will neglect me. But it also means that the sadness I feel today will change tomorrow. My pain will die. My laughter won’t last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn’t perfect. And it isn’t. It isn’t perfectly good. But, it also isn’t perfectly bad, either.
Yasmin Mogahed

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Grief is a solitary journey. No one but you knows how great the hurt is. No one but you can know the gaping hole left in your life when someone you know has died. And no one but you can mourn the silence that was once filled with laughter and song. It is the nature of love and of death to touch every person in a totally unique way. Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again.
Helen Steiner Rice

12.
A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
Oliver Herford

'A female's thoughts are more versatile than a male's: She alters them more frequently.'
13.
Take one cup of love, two cups of loyalty, three cups of forgiveness, four quarts of faith and one barrel of laughter. Take love and loyalty and mix them thoroughly with faith; blend with tenderness, kindness and understanding. Add friendship and hope. Sprinkle abundantly with laughter. Bake it with sunshine. Wrap it regularly with lots of hugs. Serve generous helpings daily.
Zig Ziglar

14.
The world is full of horrible things that will eventually get you and everything you care about. Laughter is a universal way to lift your head up and say: 'Not today, you bastards.'
Anthony Jeselnik

The universe is full of malevolent forces that will ultimately ensnare you and everything you hold dear. Humour is a global method to rise up and declare: 'Not on my watch, villains!'
15.
Close friends are truly life's treasures.
Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves.
With gentle honesty,
they are there to guide and support us,
to share our laughter and our tears.
Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.
Vincent Van Gogh

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Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you think you will live?" she asked. "You are already a skeleton." Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive.
Chinua Achebe

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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. Du Bois

I am especially delighted by the gracious blessing of merriment: it has rendered the world compassionate and endearing, notwithstanding all its suffering and injustice.
18.
A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.
Steven Wright

Many are frightened by altitude. I, however, am scared of breadth.
19.
It was the Lord who put into my mind that fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous inspiration from the Holy Scriptures.
Christopher Columbus

20.
There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter.
Rumi

I have embraced the sacred through music, movement, and merriment.
21.
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
Charlie Chaplin

'To fully chuckle, you must be able to embrace your agony, and jest with it!'
22.
Laughter is the best way to release tensions and fears.
Dick Gregory

Chuckling is the most effective way to alleviate anxieties and worries.
23.
Clear communication. Respect. A lot of laughter. And a lot of orgasms. That's what makes a marriage work.
Dr. Dre

Fluent discourse. Honor. Abundant mirth. And many climaxes. That's what ensures marital success.
24.
He who knows his soul knows this truth: " I am beyond everything finite; I I now see that the Spirit, alone in a space with Its ever-new joy, has expressed Itself as the vast body of nature. I am the stars, I am the waves, I am the Life of all, I am the laughter within all hearts, I am the smile on the faces of the flowers and in each soul. I am the Wisdom and Power that sustain all creation. "
Paramahansa Yogananda

25.
In a world of regret, sacrifice and hardship, laughter and music are medicine.
Immortal Technique

In a world of sorrow, renunciation and difficulty, mirth and melody are a balm.
26.
Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.
Nhat Hanh

Surrounding us, life overflows with wonders, a tumbler of liquid, a sliver of light, a foliage, a larva, a blossom, merriment, droplets of precipitation.
27.
Laughter is the language of the soul.
Pablo Neruda

Mirth is the lexicon of the spirit.
28.
Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
Frida Kahlo

'Mirth is invaluable; it equips one with resilience and buoyancy, while tragedy is simply absurd.'
29.
So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
Molly Ivins

30.
There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.
Patrick Pearse

At every turn, there are those who dodge their obligations, yet invariably, some will accept their duties wholeheartedly and generously, providing the seasoning that brings meaning to our lives.
31.
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Thomas Sowell

It necessitates considerable erudition to comprehend the magnitude of your own unawareness.
32.
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Today, bestow a stranger with one of your grins. It could be the only glimmer of joy he experiences all day.
33.
There is nothing more precious than laughter
Frida Kahlo

There is nothing more invaluable than mirth.
34.
A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.
Mitch Hedberg

A waffle is like a honeycomb of batter.
35.
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
Jim Carrey

36.
The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
Hannah Arendt

37.
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

38.
You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.
Maurice Chevalier

39.
Laugh because that is the purest sound.
Hafez

40.
Laughter is the best medicine, y'know, besides medicine.
Bo Burnham

41.
There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.
Chris Rock

42.
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

43.
An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.
Will Rogers

44.
Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.
Karl Barth

45.
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

46.
Sing because this is a food our starving world needs. Laugh because that is the purest sound.
Hafez

47.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~
Norman Vincent Peale

48.
It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. Everything fades: the shimmer of gold over White Cove; the laughter in the night air; the lavender early morning light on the faces of skyscrapers, which had suddenly become so heroically tall. Every dawn seemed to promise fresh miracles, among other joys that are in short supply these days. And so I will try to tell you, while I still remember, how it was then, before everything changed-that final season of the era that roared.
Anna Godbersen

49.
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
Steve Martin

50.
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
Daniel Boone