Trauma can have a masking effect.

He who laughs last laughs … doesn’t get it.

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

The cat that laughs is crazy. Man who does not laugh is below… (Le chat qui rit est un fou. – Homme qui ne rit est dessous…)

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

We can’t all be comedians, some people have to do the laughing.

I have perceived that to be with those i like is enough,To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough,To pass among them...

If you’ll laugh about something one day, you may as well start now.

You might as well laugh at yourself,everyone else is.

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,–making us think of funnier and funnier things.

There’s always people who want to go out for a laugh, and there’s always people who want to go out for a good cry.

Respect? Of course, always, to all, because everything seems funnier when you’re trying to show respect.

Here I would point out, as a symptom equally worthy of notice, the ABSENCE OF FEELING which usually accompanies laughter. It seems as though the comic could not produce its disturbing effect unless it fell,...

A good artist should laugh often!

A crazy old lady, leading a band of teenagers against an angry supernatural Entity – who’da thought?

If someone can make you laugh, they can make you cry

When you’re with Chris Wylde, there’s never not laughter.

They can fly and they howl, they slaughter depression and headaches, they daydream like gangbanging daffodils, orchids and cherry blossoms grasping mauve toffee clouds, they breastfeed laughter.

We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution

Laughing like crazythe child goes back to the citygives birth to monsterscreates earthquakeshairy women run nakedold folks who look like fetuses laugh and smoke.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

They hooted and laughed all the way back to the car, teasing Milkman, egging him on to tell more about how scared he was. And he told them. Laughing too, hard, loud, and long. Really...

How the hell does he expect both of us to fit into that tiny metal trap? Even if we could squeeze in, the tires will probably pop. In fact, let’s just carry it over. It’ll...

People need to make sure they have a good humor spark plug inside them that can be ignited at any moment when required.

Smiles are a funny thingand laughter is hilarious.I smile sometimeswhen I am delirious.

Have a selective optimistic sight, transform the bitch glitch “in stitches.

I love it–I just love it.

To hear them laugh was to hear that everything was all right, but to see them laugh was to see otherwise

That’s funny,” and when it’s funny, a person can’t say anything because they’re too busy laughing.

Each pain is Unbearable / yet TriflingSeeing the TRUTH is Excruciating / yet ExquisiteThrough Laugher & Tears / Grinning & Fear, we face our demons.

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either

He laughed to free his mind from his mind’s bondage.

Figure out what makes you laugh, and do more of it. Figure out what makes you cry, and do less of it.

4. Ditties of Life – 4.39 HUMANITY & DIVINITYWhen you lose reasoning you forget humanity,When you forget laughter you lose Divinity.[222]– 4

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...

She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.

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...

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...

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.

It is a splendid thing to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the mask of years, if you really love her, you...

Her gaze shifted away. “I don’t remember my dreams anymore.” It was like she was confessing a dirty secret. And maybe it was, because even though he hated the dreams, each time he had them,...

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with laughter

It was at a conference in Cyprus in 1976, where the theme was the rights of small nations, that I first met Edward Said. It was impossible not to be captivated by him: of his...

I am running and singing and when it’s raining I’m the only one left on the open street, smiling with my eyes fixed on the sky because it’s cleaning me. I’m the one on the...

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.

I had a dream about you. We laughed, and laughed, and laughed, like little kids, only we weren’t kids, we were just little. I think the technical term is midgets.

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by...

I could hear the chaotic laughter trailing behind me. It turned the ageless trees into a menace. They loomed around me, while hiding him. The branches tore at my skin in an effort to bind...