Norman Cousins Quotes

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.

Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady, yet probably it does tend to dry one's feelings out a little, as if by exposing them to a vigorous wind.

The act of laughing releases some nice chemical into your brain, you feel good and it's free.

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

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

Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.

Humor is a way to deal with stresses. It is a way to cope.

Humour allows people to exhale a little.

Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

Whatever it is probably won't go away, so we might as well live and laugh through it. When we double over laughing, we're bending so we won't break. If you think your particular troubles are too heavy and too traumatic to laugh about, remember that laughing is like changing a baby's diaper. It doesn't solve any problems permanently, but it makes things more acceptable for awhile.

Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead.

Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother

Laughter has been implanted in our soul, that the soul may sometime be refreshed.

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane, If we weren't all crazy we would go insane.

There are these important things in some people's lives that can make you laugh even when you're going through a tough time or a stressful week.

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

Humor is an antidote to all ills.

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

There's enough hard stuff going on in people's lives, and you really need that joy that laughter can bring. I don't have to put that in a Christian compartment.

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.