#quotes about laughter

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

Robert Frost

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I finally understood why laughter is a mark of wanderers, from the holy fools of Old Russia to the roadies of rock music. It's the surprise, the unexpected, the our of control. It turns out that laughter is the only free emotion- the only one that can't be compelled. We can be made to fear. We can even be made to believe we're in love because, if we're kept dependent and isolated for long enough, we bond in order to survive. But laughter explodes like an aha! It comes when the punch line changes everything that has gone before, when tow opposites collide and make a third, when we suddenly see a new reality. Einstein said he had to be very careful while shaving, because when he had an idea, he laughed - and he cut himself. Laughter is an orgasm of the mind.

My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem

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A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Charlie Chaplin

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Tap the Power of Laughter - Laugh Your Way To Health?

When did you laugh last?

It is 8.40 am as I write this now. I got up at 6 am. But till I started writing this, I didn’t remember to laugh! I know you are not like me.

You may be worse! But if you have been laughing quite often, accept my congratulations. You are among the few that have realized the power of laughter.

‘Laughter is the best medicine,’ they say. When I said this to my doctor, he laughed saying, ‘It’s a good joke.’ I had the satisfaction of giving a medicine to my doctor. This thought made me laugh. The doctor thought I was laughing at his statement. This made him happy and he laughed more. He took more medicine in the process.

But nothing to worry. Laughter can never become an overdose. In fact the more you laugh, the better will it be for you.  My only suggestion is : Don’t laugh continuously. You have to give a break for eating and speaking a few words now and then!

On a serious note,  laughter has been found effective in improving the function of your brain, improving your memory, reducing your stress, lowering your blood pressure and improving both your physical health and mental health in the process.

When such a great drug prescribed by God, the Master Physician of the universe is available in plenty free of cost, why don’t you make use of it? I have turned your mood serious in this paragraph. So, it’s time to laugh and return to your normal cheerful mood. Laugh out loud. (By using the abbreviation LOL, many of us have forgotten what LOL stands for!)

So, how to laugh? It is time to ponder over this question seriously since many of us seem to have lost our natural ability to laugh. We have become like Queen, who when presented with a joke, would say with a grim expression on her face, ‘We are not amused.’ She had used ‘We’ as a first person royal singular pronoun. But we seem to have assumed that she had spoken for all of us.

Learn to be amused by trivial things or happenings, stale jokes and dour humor. To laugh is easy. To keep a serious expression on our face is difficult. But we seem to  be doing the difficult talk in a facile way while struggling to do the easy one. Here are a few tips to train ourselves to laugh more.

1)      Make it a point to pretend to laugh at the silly jokes of our friends, relatives, colleagues and bosses. Not only will you learn to laugh but you will end up in improving your relationships as well. Laughing at your boss’s joke (but not laughing at him/her) will be especially effective in your efforts to go up in your career. Take care to ensure that you mistake the serious talk of your boss to be a joke and laugh.

Laugh to live long

2)      Read some of the jokes you receive in your mailbox and listen to some of  the sitcom comedy that is shown on the TV and make serious attempt to laugh, however challenging you may find the task to be. I said ‘some of the’ and not ‘all of the’ because I am concerned that you shouldn’t go mad in the process.

Well, I have not discussed the benefits of laughing in detail. That is because, I didn’t want to make this post serious lest you should abort reading this and return to your usual ways of serious living. You can understand my message better if you read the following joke. (So, get ready to laugh!)

A US President went to China. There he addressed a meeting.  His speech was being translated by an interpreter line by line. The President narrated one of his favorite jokes. After the interpreter translated it, there was a wide laughter.

Later the President asked the interpreter, ‘I have told this joke at several places in my country. But I have never seen people laughing so much. Your translation should have been excellent. Yet you were very brief. How did you manage it?’ The interpreter replied, ‘Mr. President, I just told the audience: Our honorable guest has told a joke. Please laugh.’

So, what is important is the message. Did you get it? If you didn’t, just laugh and sign off.

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Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

Seán O'Casey

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There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol