Laughter Quotes - Page 24

• Love without laughter can be grim and oppressive. Laughter without love can be derisive and venomous. Together they make for greatness of spirit.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Love, Greatness, Together

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• Happiness is activity.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Joy, Activity

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• That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Funny, Humor, Laughing

  "The Big Picture: An American Commentary". Book by A. Whitney Brown, 1991.

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• Life consists of sadness too. And sadness is also beautiful; it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own deliciousness, its own taste. A man is poorer if he has not known sadness; he is impoverished, very much impoverished. His laughter will be shallow, his laughter will not have depth, because depth comes only through sadness. A man who knows sadness, if he laughs, his laughter will have depth. His laughter will have something of his sadness too, his laughter will be more colorful.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Sadness, Men

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• I teach you joy, not sadness. I teach you playfulness, not seriousness. I teach you love and laughter, because to me there is nothing more sacred than love and laughter, and there is nothing more prayerful than playfulness. I don't teach you renunciation, as it has been taught down the ages. I teach you: Rejoice, rejoice, and rejoice again! Rejoicing should be the essential core of my sannyasins.

  Rajneesh

  Sadness, Joy, Age

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• For the Baul, life is not a serious thing. It is fun, it is laughter, it is joy. So you cannot find anything like the seriousness of a church-goer, or the long faces of so-called religious people in the world of the Bauls. They love laughter, they love fun. They enjoy small things with tremendous respect. Ordinarily, religions are very long-faced, very sombre, serious, because they have to be - they are against life.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Fun, Long

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• Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Essence, Ego

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• The ego can exist only if you take yourself and everything seriously. Nothing kills the ego like playfulness, like laughter. When you start taking life as fun, the ego has to die, it cannot exist anymore. Ego is illness; it needs an atmosphere of sadness to exist. Seriousness creates the sadness in you. Sadness is a necessary soil for the ego. Hence your saints are so serious, for the simple reason that they are the most egoistic people on the earth. They may be trying to be humble, but they are very proud of their humbleness. They take their humbleness very seriously.

  Rajneesh

  Fun, Sadness, Humble

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• Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly. And life is so full of opportunities. You just need the sensitivity. And create chances for other people to laugh. Laughter should be one of the most valued, cherished qualities of human beings - because only man can laugh, no animals are capable of it. Because it is human, it must be of the highest order. To repress it is to destroy a human quality.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Animal, Opportunity

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• Meditation doesn't lead you to silence; meditation only creates the situation in which the silence happens. And this should be the criterion - that whenever silence happens laughter will come into your life. A vital celebration will happen all around. You will not become sad, you will not become depressed, you will not escape from the world. You will be here in this world, but taking the whole thing as a game, enjoying the whole thing as a beautiful game, a big drama, no longer serious about it. Seriousness is a disease.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Drama, Games

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• Laughter is the fireworks of the soul.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Meaningful, Humor

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• Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Morning, Boredom, Ribald

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy”, p.170, The Floating Press

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• The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
  As sages in all times assert;
  The happy man's without a shirt.

  John Heywood

  Happiness, Loss, Cutting

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1919.

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• Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Happiness, Christian Inspirational, Joy

  Orison Swett Marden (2016). “The Miracle of Right Thought”, p.76, FV Éditions

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• The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it's understood.

  Byron Katie

  Nightmare, Understood

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• When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be there, sometimes not. When lesser people hear of the Way, they ridicule it greatly. If they didn't laugh at it, it wouldn't be the Way.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Courage, People

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• I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial-largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox-in other words,-all the things I love the most.

  Luis Bunuel

  Dream, Science, Feelings

  Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.158, Random House

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• That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

  Denis Waitley

  Life, Happiness, Truth

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• The laughter in response to my question unmasked the double standard our deconstructionists espouse. And that is precisely the double standard of atheism! It is possible to dress up and romanticize our bizarre experiments in social restructuring while disavowing truth or absolutes. But one dares not play such deadly games with the foundations of good thinking.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Thinking, Games, Play

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• Suffrage is the pivotal right.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Education, Inspiration, Election

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• A buddha laughs too, but his laughter has the quality of a smile. His laughter has the feminine quality of grace. When an ignorant person laughs, his laughter is very aggressive, egoistic. The ignorant person always laughs at others. The contented person, the person who knows life a little, laughs at himself - at the whole play of life itself. It is not addressed to anybody in particular. He just laughs at the absurdity of it all... the impossibility of it all.

  Rajneesh

  Play, Laughing, Grace

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• It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

  Denis Waitley

  Happiness, Joy, Fulfillment In Life

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• One must take what comes, with laughter.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Personality, Aging

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• On girls night in we talk about dating; the ups and downs of the previous week. Our collective laughter is uncontrollable and tearful, even the most disappointing dates become meritorious on girls night in.

  Cilla Black

  Girl, Night, Dating

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• Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering thunder of the World War. And now a blood-drenched, bitter world — no longer laughing — cries for a way out. There is but one way out. It existed before it was engraven upon Tablets of Stone. It will exist when stone has crumbled. The Ten Commandments are not rules to obey as a personal favor to God. They are the fundamental principles without which mankind cannot live together.

  Cecil B. DeMille

  Religious, War, Blood

  "Cecil B. DeMille's Campaign for a Godly Culture" by Mark H. Creech, www.christianpost.com. September 9, 2013.

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