Top 1200 Gift Of Laughter Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own and hide it for someone else to find. I was greatly excited at the thought of the first lucky passerby who would receive a gift in this way, regardless of merit, a free gift from the universe. . . . I've been thinking about seeing. There are lots of things to see, unwrapped gifts and free surprises. The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand.

The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.

Laughter makes me come alive. Either being made to laugh or igniting it.

Winter's done, and April's in the skies, Earth, look up with laughter in your eyes!

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.

I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.

Laughter is a release of tension. When influencing, make the other person laugh; you'll gain rapport instantly.

I believe every one of us has a gift, I believe every one of us human beings has a path in this life, and it is up to each of us, through circumstance, through knowledge, through awareness, through luck - and luck does play a huge part - to hopefully achieve that path and walk the path and realize the gift.

Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.

Humor is most powerful thing that uses laughter as it base to chase your blues away.

Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about.

The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

... laughter is cathartic and cleansing, that it's good for the body and the soul, and when it's real it's better than sex.

"What is honor?" "Honor is what no man can give ya. And none can take away. Honor is man's gift to himself." "Do women have it?" "Women have a heart of honor, and we cherish and protect it in 'em. We must never mistreat a woman or malign a man, or standby and see another do so." "How do you know you have it?" "Never worry on the gift of it. It grows in ya' and speaks to ya'. All ya' need do is listen".

Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

No baby shall at any time be quartered in a house where there are no soft laps, no laughter, or no love.

A church is in a bad way when it banishes laughter from the sanctuary and leaves it to the cabaret, the nightclub and the toastmasters.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Words, words, word. Once, I had the gift. I could make love out of words as a potter makes cups of clay. Love that overthrows empire. Love that binds two hearts together, come hellfire & brimstone. For sixpence a line, I could cause a riot in a nunnery. But now -- I have lost my gift. It's as if my quill is broken, as if the organ of my imagination has dried up, as if the proud -illegible word- of my genius has collapsed.

Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans.

Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagion: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private

The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter.

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

You have to take things with a lot of laughter. I laugh with everyone; this way, I will be able to die happy.

Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world.

Whoever said laughter is the best medicine had clearly never tasted scotch.

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift of God. The energy and the power which was so very evident in Jesus will be exhibited in us by an act of the absolute sovereign grace of God, once we have made that complete and effective decision about sin. We have to keep letting go, and slowly, but surely, the great full life of God will invade us, penetrating every part.

Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.

Time is a river rolling into nowhere. We must live while we can, and we'll drink our cup of laughter.

In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.

The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - and laughter.

I was called for 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge,' but I turned it down because I wasn't sure of its quality.

He blinked, then roared with laughter. "Eve Dallas, Vampire Slayer. One for the books." ~Eternity in Death

A gift is like a seed; it is not an impressive thing. It is what can grow from the seed that is impressive. If we wait until our seed becomes a tree before we offer it, we will wait and wait, and the seed will die from lack of planting.... The miracle is not just the gift; the miracle is in the offering, for if we do not offer, who will?

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

I'm definitely proud of myself anytime I can make Amanda Peet break out into laughter.

I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke.

I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin.

Today, in my career, I'm doing what I love to do. And that is, do things for the fun - do comedy. It's a pleasure to go for the laughter.

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.

On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart.