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Quotes About Laughter

So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Laughter is life-giving. It makes you breathe.
~ Kristin Chenoweth
It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
~ Louise Erdrich
So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.
~ Freeman Dyson
My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
~ Jim Carrey
Perhaps the way to succeed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity that the only way to live is to laugh until you think your heart will break.
~ Meg Rosoff
Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.
~ Peter Jennings
It's okay to laugh you know. The earth is not going to split open. You're not going to hell. Believe me.
~ Jennifer Niven
The thing is, there are good days and bad days. I feel almost guilty saying they aren't all bad. Something catches me off guard—a TV show, a funny one-liner from my dad, a comment in class—and I laugh like nothing ever happened.
~ Jennifer Niven
and I laugh like nothing every happened. I feel normal again, whatever that is.
~ Jennifer Niven
and I laugh like nothing ever happened. I feel normal again, whatever that is.
~ Jennifer Niven
I just want it to be fun and light the way it always is with us. I want him to at leas still be my friend. Especially now that we're at the end.
~ Jenny Han
Hey, so what's the deal with you and Kavinsky?" I just shrug and give him an enigmatic smile. "It's crazy, right? Because he's so…" I search for the exact right word, but I can't think of it. "I mean, he could play the part of a handsome guy in a movie." Hastily I add, "So could you, though. You'd play the guy the girl should pick." Lucas laughs, but I can tell he likes it.
~ Jenny Han
She laughs. "Except you, Lara Jean. You're still itty-bitty pocket-sized." She says it sweetly. Like sweetened condensed milk. Sweet and condescending. Poured on super thick. I
~ Jenny Han
On the way out Jeremiah turned around and danced a quick jig for me, and I couldn't help it, I laughed. Over his shoulder Conrad said, "Good night, Belly." And that was it. I was in love.
~ Jenny Han
She laughs a husky laugh, the sexy kind that only smokers or people with colds get to have.
~ Jenny Han
and it was so funny I nearly peed my pants?
~ Jenny Han
Peter's smiling, and he looks like he's about to crack a joke, so I swiftly add, "Or any other body part.
~ Jenny Han
Laugh hard at the absurdly evil.
~ Jenny Holzer
I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.
~ Jenny McCarthy
My friend laughs. "I don't think they go with the way you dress." How do I dress? I wonder. Like a bus driver is the answer.
~ Jenny Offill
A few days later the baby sees the garden hose come on and we hear her laughing. All my life now appears to be one happy moment. This is what the first man in space said. Later, when it's time to go to bed, she puts both legs in one side of her footy pajamas and slyly waits for us to notice.
~ Jenny Offill
All of that requires that they do what you're talking about: destroying our empathy and reducing our faith in reason. Those guys on the border laughed when they let you through because you're not even human to them. You're a unit of something else. They rename you 'test subject' or 'enemy,' or they assign you a race or a nation or a class—and then they don't have to think about you anymore.
~ Jeremy Robert Johnson
Okay, stud , just one more question." She formed an L with her thumb and index finger. 'Why are some people in the audience holding the sign for "loser"?' It was my turn to laugh at her. 'That's not for loser.' I set down my soda, mirrored her gesture with my hand, then straightened our pinkies to form the sign-language letter. 'The L stands for "love".
~ Jeri Smith-Ready