George Washington Quotes

Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it's becoming nice again around you. And you realize it, and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh.

As long as I have laughter, I am not without hope

I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine.

I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative things will happen. If you aren't positive as a person, you'll be very unhappy. It's extremely important to be positive, to laugh, to be happy, to accept life as it comes.

And so long as I can laugh, never will I be poor. This then, is one of nature's greatest gifts and I will waste it no more.

You cannot struggle to joy. Struggle and joy are not on the same channel. You joy your way to joy. You laugh your way to success. It is through your joy that good things come.

You have to find a way to laugh a little bit each day despite everything, or your heart will simply run out of the joy that makes it go.

Living life with a smile is like throwing yeast into a bowl of flour, adding warm water and waiting for the flour to rise. It multiplies may times over.

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Enjoy your life and put a smile on your face, no matter how hard it may seem.

No matter what comes your way, don't lose your joy.

The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.

If you can laugh your way through life, you can have a good time as you're going through the sometimes troubling time that we have in our lives.

It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.

There is nothing better than a laugh in life. There just isn't.

There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!

In life you have two choices. You can laugh or you can cry. You have to laugh, you have to.

I try to laugh at whatever life brings.

If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.

It's such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have!

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.

A positive attitude and a sense of humor go together like biscuits and gravy.

The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.

I said that I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda. If you had a giant panda in your back yard, anything could go wrong — someone could die, or stop loving you, or you could get sick — and if you could look outside and see this adorable, ridiculous, boffo panda, you'd start to laugh; you'd be so filled with thankfulness and amusement that everything would be O.K. again.

If I can laugh, I can live.