All laughter is a muscular rigidity spasmodically relieved by involuntary twitching.
Seven days without laughter makes one weak.
God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.
Laughter is higher than all pain.
Release the joy that is inside of another, and you release the joy that is inside of you.
We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.
It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.
I think laughter may be a form of courage.
Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.
Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
