Resiliency is the body’s internal response to a stressful situation.

Boundaries are, in simple terms, the recognition of personal space.

Trauma can have a masking effect.

Humor can make a serious difference. In the workplace, at home, in all areas of life – looking for a reason to laugh is necessary. A sense of humor helps us to get through the dull times, cope with the difficult times, enjoy the good times and manage the scary times.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

We’re all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

Take the road less traveled…there’s less traffic!!!

I had a dream that my boyfriend went back to his ex…I woke up and giggled because you don’t pick up a rock after finding a diamond.

I fought for you, I fought for usI fought for the memories and the laughter that came upon us,Now here we are, we have become unknown people to each other,Worlds apart in an instant, for what once was is now goneSo tell me what your secret is to letting go like you did.

I did a scene and he started laughing and said he’d seen everything he needed to see.

Laughter is the human super-highway to the heart. It bypasses, any yellow or red lights and proceeds straight to green. Go get to laughing!!!

Laughter and imagination can overcome any ill-felt sensations.

Most of all, I remember her laughing. It filled my ears. Her smile, her sparkling eyes, and her infectious laughter, along with the vistas, were limitless and unending and powerful.

At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet....

If you’re stressing over happiness, you’re doing it wrong!

I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry.

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

The chuckle is a perfectly acceptable form of laughter.

Tears will not fill your stomach; Tears will not bring kindness. If you have time to shed tears, laugh; someone will be willing to look at a hearty smile more then a tear soaked sponge.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

There is something so attractive about a man who is able to laugh shamelessly.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Laughter, Susannah would later reflect, is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny.

Those are the only to verbalizations usually that we make in movies—either to scream or to laugh—because those two reactions are rather close. Most things we laugh at are things that are really horrible, when you think about them. It’s funny and you don’t scream, as long as it’s not you. If it’s somebody else...

I would like to see you come undone.When you’re laughing so hardthat your eyes crinkle at the cornersand your hand comes up to cover your mouth,like you’re trying to conceal a secret.When you are overcome with a sadness so deep that your shoulders dropand all the weight leaves your body;you seem so fragile in those...

It had been an embarrassing moment, like the one you get when you realize for the first time that you have what it takes to become an accountant.

Many things have been compared to a brick, mainly as a tribute to their intellect or to their aerodynamic characteristics.

What I’d show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That’s all right. Laugh if you must. Just don’t take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature...

He(Samuel, known as ‘the Pea’) was as apprehensive, weak and nervous about things as Swaminathan was. The bond between them was laughter. They were able to see together the same absurdities and incongruities in things. The most trivial and unnoticeable thing to others would tickle them to death.

A strange thing happened to me in my dream. I was rapt into the Seventh Heaven. There sat all the gods assembled. As a special dispensation I was granted the favor to have one wish. “Do you wish for youth,” said Mercury, “or for beauty, or power, or a long life; or do you wish...

What had been so funny? But you can never remember what you were laughing about, and even if you could, it seems doubtful that it would still be funny.

The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it’s a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he’s broken a leg, you...

We clutch our bellies and roll on the floor…When I say this, it should mean laughter,not poison.

You have a beautiful laugh. Like the promise of tomorrow.

Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.

Hardly knowing what i was doing, i began to hit the table with one hand as i sang in a low voice. Big cows” -thump- “lumps of meat” -thump. His widened. “Give me milk” -thump- “warm and sweet.”I stopped abruptly, pressing my lips together as I realized what I had just sung. The ridiculousness of...

I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.

Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and...

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

While McMurphy laughs. Rocking farther and farther backward against the cabin top,spreading his laugh across the water. Laughing at the girl,at the guys, at George,at me sucking my bleeding thumb, at the captain back at the pier and the bicycle rider and the service station guys and the five thousand houses and the Big Nurse...

…the only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. you either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.

I have done this—made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power...

I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that’s the soul seeking some relief.

Sexy, sexy veggies. You two need to go on lots of dates together.

If you can’t laugh, you won’t make it.

Ariel laughed and now her goose bumps had goose bumps.

Little girl, little boyIf love has a wayFill their fields with laughterAnd scatter the sun on their dayAnd if it should happen to rainMake their raindrops kissesStraight from heaven aboveThat touch their hands and facesAnd that fill them with loveAnd make the moon reflect their smilesAnd their stars plentyAnd, above all, keep them togetherAnd hold...

When I told the rainbow what its colors meant, it laughed.