Humor is a prelude to faith and Laughter is the beginning of prayer.
Reinhold Niebuhr
One of the best things I can hope to find at an OA meeting is laughter. There is something so pure, so cleansing and healing about laughing at ourselves, it is truly akin to prayer.
When I laugh at the easy humor of a speaker, I am aware of that sense of awe one feels in the presence of profound mystery.
For Today: Thank God for the gift of laughter, and for those who carry the message on its wings.
I love to laugh...........especially at myself. When I don't laugh is when I tend to cry. And, God knows, I've cried enough already........it's time to laugh!
I hunted up this list of quotes on laughter, so enjoy!
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose. ~Woody Allen
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ~Jean Houston
Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit. ~Author Unknown
Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis. ~Jack Handey, "Deep Thoughts," Saturday Night Live
The most wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed. ~Nicolas Chamfort, translated from French
Laughter is an instant vacation. ~Milton Berle
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! ~Agnes Repplier
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. ~Gordon W. Allport
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. ~Victor Borge
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
When people are laughing, they're generally not killing each other. ~Alan Alda
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ~Kurt Vonnegut
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. ~Bob Newhart
A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash. ~Puzant Kevork Thomajan
There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh. ~Françoise Sagan
I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth." ~Quincy Jones
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. ~Henri Bergson
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end. ~Max Eastman
A man isn't poor if he can still laugh. ~Raymond Hitchcock
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. ~Kurt Vonnegut
Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food. ~Anna Fellows Johnston
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. ~Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, chapter 4
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. ~Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis
A good time to laugh is any time you can. ~Linda Ellerbee
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. ~Abraham Lincoln
Watching a child's laughter teach a candle's flame how to dance. ~Dr. SunWolf
Whoever said "laughter is the best medicine" never had gonorrhea. ~Kat Likkel and John Hoberg, My Name Is Earl, "Robbed a Stoner Blind," original airdate 16 November 2006
A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods. ~Author unknown, from an editorial in New-York Tribune, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren
Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing. ~Ken Kesey
It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. ~Author Unknown
It was not a laugh but merely a loud smile. ~Author Unknown
If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
Seven days without laughter makes one weak. ~Mort Walker
A laugh is a smile that bursts. ~Mary H. Waldrip
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ~Victor Hugo
[L]aughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. ~Hugh Sidey
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. ~Josh Billings
Carry laughter with you wherever you go. ~Hugh Sidey
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects. ~Arnold Glasow
Laughter is an orgasm triggered by the intercourse of sense and nonsense. ~Author Unknown
We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist. ~Joseph Heller
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ~Jean Houston
Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit. ~Author Unknown
Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis. ~Jack Handey, "Deep Thoughts," Saturday Night Live
The most wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed. ~Nicolas Chamfort, translated from French
Laughter is an instant vacation. ~Milton Berle
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! ~Agnes Repplier
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. ~Gordon W. Allport
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. ~Victor Borge
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
When people are laughing, they're generally not killing each other. ~Alan Alda
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ~Kurt Vonnegut
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. ~Bob Newhart
A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash. ~Puzant Kevork Thomajan
There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh. ~Françoise Sagan
I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth." ~Quincy Jones
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. ~Henri Bergson
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end. ~Max Eastman
A man isn't poor if he can still laugh. ~Raymond Hitchcock
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. ~Kurt Vonnegut
Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food. ~Anna Fellows Johnston
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. ~Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, chapter 4
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. ~Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis
A good time to laugh is any time you can. ~Linda Ellerbee
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. ~Abraham Lincoln
Watching a child's laughter teach a candle's flame how to dance. ~Dr. SunWolf
Whoever said "laughter is the best medicine" never had gonorrhea. ~Kat Likkel and John Hoberg, My Name Is Earl, "Robbed a Stoner Blind," original airdate 16 November 2006
A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods. ~Author unknown, from an editorial in New-York Tribune, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren
Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing. ~Ken Kesey
It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. ~Author Unknown
It was not a laugh but merely a loud smile. ~Author Unknown
If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
Seven days without laughter makes one weak. ~Mort Walker
A laugh is a smile that bursts. ~Mary H. Waldrip
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ~Victor Hugo
[L]aughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. ~Hugh Sidey
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. ~Josh Billings
Carry laughter with you wherever you go. ~Hugh Sidey
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects. ~Arnold Glasow
Laughter is an orgasm triggered by the intercourse of sense and nonsense. ~Author Unknown
We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist. ~Joseph Heller
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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