Quotes About Laughter

I'm an expert on one-armed Herdazian jokes. 'Lopen,' my mother always says, 'you must learn these to laugh before others do. Then you steal the laughter from them, and have it all for yourself.

You people are all insane. How I ended up with you, I'll never know." Breeze laughed. "Now, that's a lie, Cett. You know exactly how you ended up joining with us. We threatened to kill you if you didn't!

Oh, my lord, I know it, I do." The beggar laughed. "I own the place, technically. Now, regarding those coins for old Hoid, my good lord…

I believe that human beings need humor during times of depression," M-Bot said.

Laugh when good things happen. Laugh when bad things happen. Laugh when life is so plain boring that you can't find anything amusing about it beyond the fact that it's so utterly unamusing.

He felt a swelling of pride. Ridiculous, of course. He had endangered the kindgdom — how would people react if they knew the Blackthorn himself had broken before a crisis of conscience? They'd laugh. In that moment, he didn't care. So long as he could be a hero to this woman

I couldn't remember what it felt like to laugh. I wondered if that meant I had already drowned.

Face after face. Life after life. Overpowering, intoxicating, alive. Breathing, and crying, and laughing, and being. So many hopes, so many lives, so many dreams.

Kelsier had, apparently, insisted on laughing, no matter how bad the situation. It had been a form of rebellion to him.

She looked up at me, and though there were tears in the corners of her eyes, she wasn't weeping. She was laughing. "You," she said, "are an utter fool, David Charleston. I wish you weren't also so adorable.

He flopped down onto the deck beside her chair, rolling over and looking up. "Yeah, maybe. But it's nice to make people laugh at you for something you do, and not something you can't control. You know?

She inspected him lying on the deck, and he raised a fist in a gesture of solidarity. "Radiant the Lopen," Rysn said, ". . . um, what do you call a Thaylen who can't walk?" "Not sure, gancha." "Names. From afar." He grinned widely. "Of course," Rysn added. "I'd never stand for that sort of thing." The Lopen about died from laughing. He called to his cousin again, translating the jokes. This time Huio chuckled.

Ranette said a lot of mean things, but they weren't ... well, they weren't actually mean. He joked, and she joked. And sure, sometimes there was an edge of truth to it, but that's what friends was about. Making you look a little silly when you were together, so that you didn't look really stupid when you were apart.

You're my friends now. We're having soft tacos later.

Laughter is the evidence that the chokehold of shame has been loosened. Knowing laughter is the moment we feel proof that our shame has been transformed. Like empathy, it strips shame to the bone, robs it of its power and forces it from the closet.

Cultivating intuition and trusting faith: letting go of the need for certainty 6. Cultivating creativity: letting go of comparison 7. Cultivating play and rest: letting go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as self-worth 8. Cultivating calm and stillness: letting go of anxiety as a lifestyle 9. Cultivating meaningful work: letting go of self-doubt and "supposed to" 10. Cultivating laughter, song, and dance: letting go of being cool and "always in control

Laughter, song, and dance create emotional and spiritual connection; they remind us of the one thing that truly matters when we are searching for comfort, celebration, inspiration, or healing: We are not alone. Ironically,

Laughter is a spiritual form of communing; without words we can say to one another, "I'm with you. I get it.

When I was growing up, there was a lot of unpredictable behavior and intense emotion. There was intense love and there was intense rage. There was intense laughter and intense hurt. But even the good times were dicey, because they could turn in an instant.

Anne Lamott, whom I once heard say, "Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness." Amen!

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

I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.

You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.

I'm a man who doesn't laugh enough, he thought. Without my noticing, middle age has marooned me on a coast with too many dangerous submerged rocks.