Quotes About Laughter

Unlike the Jester and the Clown, who are at the bottom of a hierarchical pile and survive only by making the king laugh, the Trickster is free, a paradox, a breaker of boundaries who makes us laugh—and laughter lets the sacred in. In Native spiritualities, there is often a belief that we cannot pray unless we've laughed.

Laughter is the only free emotion-the only one that can't be compelled.p.181

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I also thought suddenly of the wisdom of my speaking partner, the late generous, outrageous, matchless Flo Kennedy. She found value in conflict, no matter what. "The purpose of ass-kicking is not that your ass gets kicked at the right time or for the right reason," she often explained. "It's to keep your ass sensitive. " Remembering her words made me laugh out loud.

Thanks to her, I began to learn about the Trickster, a common figure in Native myhtologies, a boundary crosser who can go anywhere. Unlike the Jester and the Clown, who are at the bottom of a hieractchical pile and surivive only by making the king laugh, the Trickster is free, a paradox, a break of boundaries who makes us laugh- and laughter lets the sacred it.

Laughter is a rescue.

Try to stay away from places where you're not allowed to laugh, including religious ones. The absence of laughter is a giveaway that the religion in question is more political than spiritual, more about a hierarchy with God at the top than about godliness in all living things.

probably because the power to make people laugh is also a power, so women have been kept out of comedy.

the power to make people laugh is also a power, so women have been kept out of comedy. Polls

that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

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

once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Mabye........ combat some the ugliness in the world.

Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world.

It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child.

You know that feeling just before you're going to laugh? That thing where you get all bubbled up?… It's like a bubble of laughter, but it hasn't come out yet…? That's what God feels like. It's a feeling of joy and love and well-being.

So, you know that feeling just before you're gonna laugh? That thing when you get all bubbled up and there's this beautiful sort of... it's like a bubble of laughter but it hasn't come out yet? I said, that's the feeling I would say that... that's what God feel like. It's a feeling of joy and love and well-being.

Laughing is peculiar to man, but all men do not laugh for the same reason. There is the attic salt which springs from the charm in the words, from the flash of wit, from the spirited and brilliant sally. There is the low joke which arises from scurrility and idle conceit.

In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.

Through all of living have much joy and laughter, life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.

We've got to have a little humor in our lives. You had better take seriously that which should be taken seriously but, at the same time, we can bring in a touch of humor now and again. If the time ever comes when we can't smile at ourselves, it will be a sad time.

There are so many ways to tell time-one way with clocks and watches and sunsets, or other ways with how many times a person laughs, or what they forget, or how they change their minds about what they care about, or why, or whom.

There never was a throne yet built so high that it could not be rocked by laughter from below.

Os espectadores às vezes riem bastante durante as cenas mais sinistras de Macbeth, Roger me contara certa vez. Por quê?, eu perguntara. Porque coisas horríveis são engraçadas.

My wrinkles are a playground of happy memories.