Jessamyn West Quotes

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

You have to start laughing at yourself at some point.

You can't take yourself too seriously.

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.

It's very easy for me to laugh at myself and laugh at life.

The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace.

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

I think it's important to have a sense of humor. You have to be able to laugh at yourself.

I just feel like you're being realistic if you can laugh at yourself.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

It's funny, because I never think of myself as Little Miss All-Together.

The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.

Apparently, I don't want to take myself too seriously.

Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.

I've never taken myself too seriously.

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

Nothing's funnier to me than laughing at myself.

Most of my songs make fun of myself.

Laugh at yourself - a lot. My mum taught me not to take myself too seriously.

After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they grow older and probably wiser, I can look back at my earlier life - my history, my mistakes, the joy I felt as a young woman traveling the world - with some objectivity and even some humor.

I have to laugh at myself.

I don't think it's healthy to take yourself too seriously.

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.