laughter

Through life, I want to walk gently. I want to treat all of life _ the earth and its people _ with reverence. I want to remove my shoes in the presence of holy ground. As much as possible, I want to walk in peace.I want to walk lightly, even joyfully, through whatever days I am given. I want to laugh easily. I want to step carefully in and out of people's lives and relationships. I don't want to tread any heavier than necessary.And throughout life, I think I would like to walk with more humility and less anger, more love and less fear. I want to walk confidently, but without arrogance. I want to walk in deep appreciation. I want to be genuinely thankful for life's extravagant, yet simple, gifts _ a star-splattered night sky or a hot drink on an ice-cold day.If life is a journey, then how I make that journey is important. How I walk through life.

Crying makes problems seem longer, and laughing makes problems seem shorter. Therefore in life if you cannot find a way out of your problems just take a short cut through them: that shortcut is laughter.

If neither crying nor laughing can change my circumstances, then I rather go through them laughing.

It's laughter that lubricates our irritations, that releases our tensions, that feeds our joy_ it__ the laughter that helps keep things warm and joyful even in the midst of pain.

listen thoughtfullysounds of laughtergaiety and melancholy galore

Giddy is a grin and giggles and that glint of goofiness in your gaze.

Tiny GigglesSilly giggles of laughterI store upon a shelfI give some to otherI save some for myselfI am rich beyond all measureThough not with worldly wealthI store up these treasuresFor my heart and soulful health.

May you fill your days with love, laughter, and joy.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings.

Thou hast Drawn laughter from A well of secret tears And thence so elvish it rings, -mocking And sweet.

I don__ remember now who took the photo of us, but I__e had it in my room for years. We__e leaning out of our windows and we__e laughing at each other with joyfulness purer than anything to do with the polite smiling you get used to doing when you get older. The photo has the kind of proper smiles that happen when you__e looking straight into the face of someone who__ been your best friend for a long time.

Sing, laugh and be merry because today you're alive.

Nothing has to be funny, sometimes I just laugh to unclog my soul.

We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter.

Nothing has to be funny. Sometimes I just laugh to heal my soul.

For joy alone, Carries a fountain of youth.Laughter's music, Will wrinkle smooth.- Poem Fountain of Youth

Because when you__e laughing, there is no other emotion in that moment except for joy.