A Quote by Katherine Mansfield

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Katherine Mansfield

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Katherine Mansfield
New Zealander - Author
October 14, 1888 - January 9, 1923

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Katherine Mansfield

We need to learn to laugh at ourselves because when you don't laugh, you cry. And I don't feel like crying.

Tracy Morgan

We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.

Dorothy Dix

It's important to learn to laugh at ourselves. Don't take life too seriously.

Geri Halliwell

Getting a good education was of immense importance to my parents.

Roger Allam

Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.

Alan Watts

"I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting" ... "But that's not all people laugh at." "Isn't it? Perhaps I don't grok all its fullness yet. But find me something that really makes you laugh sweetheart... a joke, or anything else- but something that gave you a a real belly laugh, not a smile. Then we'll see if there isn't a wrongness wasn't there." He thought. "I grok when apes learn to laugh, they'll be people."

Robert A. Heinlein

I'm not that powerful but it's great that I'm allowed to do my job and talk about my life as a disabled person and hopefully sometimes people will laugh at that - sometimes they learn from that and if I do my job really well they laugh and they learn.

Rosie Jones

I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another?

Theodore Hesburgh

Jesus may have had an immense sense of importance or destiny, but he never claimed to be the Son of God.

Paul Verhoeven

When we laugh we temporarily give ourselves over to the person who makes us laugh.

Robert Orben

The environment issue is hydra-headed and complicated, but it is of immense importance that we understand how fast the world is changing.

Richard Lamm

I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.

Peter Ustinov

When Bridget [Jones] does finally get pregnant, she 's bound to mess it up, but what I tried to show is the importance of love and kindness rather than perfection, and the importance of support from friends who help you to laugh at your mistakes and pick yourself up afterwards.

Helen Fielding

Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!