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Get Inspired for Virtue 6: Transcendence and Strengths of Meaning and Connection

You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.  

- Ethel Barrymore  

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.  

- Karl Barth  

Nobody ever died of laughter.  

- Sir Max Beerbohm  

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.  

- Tom Bodett  

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.  

- Victor Borge  

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.  

- James Boswell  

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.  

- Jimmy Buffet  

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.  

- Eileen Caddy  

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man  

- Thomas Carlyle  

The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.  

- Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort  

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.  

- Charlie Chaplin  

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.  

- Norman Cousins  

The earth laughs in flowers.  

- Edward E Cummings  

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.  

- Max Eastman  

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.''  

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe  

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.  

- Oliver Goldsmith  

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.  

- Graffiti  

Laughter translates into any language.  

- Graffiti  

A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.  

- Raymond Hitchcock  

Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.  

- Robert Holden  

Laughter is the best way to make somebody's heart beat.  

- Robert Holden  

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.  

- Edgar Watson Howe  

Laughter is higher than all pain.  

- Elbert Hubbard  

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.  

- Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland  

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.  

- Victor Hugo  

We don't laugh because we're happy, we're happy because we laugh.  

- William James  

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.  

- The Koran  

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.  

- The Koran  

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.  

- Milan Kundera  

Laughter is by definition healthy.  

- Doris Lessing  

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.  

- Abraham Lincoln  

Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.  

- Og Mandino  

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.  

- W Somerset Maugham  

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.  

- Elsa Maxwell  

I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.  

- Wilson Mizner  

There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter, loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.  

- Sir William Osler  

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.  

- Japanese Proverb  

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.  

- Agnes Repplier  

Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.  

- Harriet Rochlin  

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.  

- Seneca  

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.  

- Seneca  

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.  

- William M Thackeray  

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.  

- Puzant Kevork Thomajan  

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.  

- Mark Twain  

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.  

- Mark Twain  

The human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter.  

- Mark Twain  

If you can laugh at it then you can live with it  

- Source Unknown  

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.  

- Source Unknown  

When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.  

- Source Unknown  

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.  

- Source Unknown  

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.  

- Source Unknown  

People who laugh actually live longer than those who don't laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter.  

- Doctor James Walsh  

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