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2 January 1991

Fun and Laugter

  • Laughter is the sunshine of my soul
  • I search out fun and share it with others
  • I splash in puddles
  • I do what I love. I discover joy

The Power of Laughter
  • Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. Karl Barth
  • Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. Victor Borge
  • He who laughs, lasts. (Mary Pettibone Poole)
  • He dares to be a fool, and that is just the first step in the direction of wisdom. James Gibbons Huneker
  • Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma. Benjamin De Cassere
  • The Laughing Buddha represents the inner intelligence that lives within all of us. He represents the part of us that is in tune with the Grand Design. He doesn't try to control the chaos. Instead he listens and moves comfortably within the chaos as the world unfolds around him. He stays open to a constant flow of "joyous survival" versus "turbulent survival". He makes us realise that we can't get rid of the chaos, but we can get very creative with the turmoil. Susan Jeffers
  • Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart.

Advice
  • As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it. (Lao Tzu)
  • Be spontaneous - do it on the spur of the moment, just because you enjoy it. Do it for the joy of doing it, not to win, excel or even do your best. Dr Wayne W. Dyer
  • If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.
  • It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anyone at whom we never laugh. (Agnes Repplier)
  • Just below the surface of consciousness, there lurks...a subterranean giggle. Nurture it, give it its space, and it will be fruitful and multiply and cheer your days and warm your nights. Cynthia Heimel
  • Let us start a new religion with one commandment, "Enjoy thyself." (Israel Zangwill)

Thoughtful
  • Every normal function of life holds some delight. Will Durant
  • The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing should be taken seriously. (Samuel Butler)
  • The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed. Sebastien Chamfort
  • We don't stop having fun when we're old; we're old when we stop having fun.
  • If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

Fun sayings
  • Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall always be amused.
  • Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier. Blore's Razor
  • God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. Voltaire
  • Good behaviour is the last refuge of mediocrity. (Henry S.Haskins)
  • All the fun's in how you say a thing. Robert Frost
  • Its not easy to stay sane in a world that offers such a wonderful choice of madness. Ashleigh Brilliant
  • I've explored and rejected every other possibility. Life after all must be for having fun. Ashleigh Brilliant
  • One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself. Sarn Jeannette Duncan
  • One should always aim at being interesting rather than exact. (Voltaire)
  • The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...' - Isaac Asimov.

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