Norman Cousins Quotes

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

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

Evidence shows that having even weak social connections in a stressful situation is really good for your health and your ability to handle that situation.

Laughing makes everything easier.

Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.

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.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

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.

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

There's nothing wrong with making people laugh. We all need to laugh. Sometimes I get all these laughs inside of me, and there's no place to let 'em out.

You learn to laugh at yourself, and you also lean on comedy as a crutch to kind of take the edge off because comedians often are self-deprecating, and they cross lines that they shouldn't. Stuff like that brings a smile to my face every once in a while when needed.

Humour is the be-all and end-all medicine of human existence.

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

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

Forgiving is good for your health.

Laughing in full abandonment is very good for your health.

Laughter boosts the immune system and helps the body fight off disease, cancer cells as well as viral, bacterial and other infections. Being happy is the best cure of all diseases!

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.

Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.

The right way to deal with mental unhappiness must be within the mind too. On an emotional level, anger, fear and worry bring unhappiness. Scientists say they eat into our immune system. On the other hand, we are also equipped with a sense of affection and compassionate concern for the well-being of others.

Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche.