John Burdon Sanderson Haldane Quotes

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

When you feel the need to moan and groan, laugh with woeful recognition and eat flaky pastries. If you hear yourself taking the art of complaining a little too seriously, ask yourself what you're trying to accomplish, exactly.

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

Why not try thinking of your life as hilarious rather than nightmarish?

I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.

I used to take someone with me for the chemotherapy so I could do jokes. You always try and find something absurd.

I can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.'

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

We know there's no use in getting miserable, so we go out on the town instead!

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.

I make jokes because humor is the greatest healing factor that there is.

I couldn't have made it without knowing how to use laughter to get from one day to the next.

In a spiritual sense, a positive attitude may help you get through chemotherapy and surgery and radiation and what have you. But a positive mental attitude does not cure cancer - any more than a negative mental attitude causes cancer.

I go out and speak to women's groups all the time, and I say, 'Guys, you gotta laugh and find the humor in things. You gotta pass it on.'

I've learned to laugh most of the negativity off.

All the greatest comedians use comedy and humor to release pain and sadness, and I think that instead of wanting to live within my pain, or live within my sadness, I try to be funny and look at things with a funny view.

Comedy is a coping mechanism, and it helps us stay alive.

When people suffer from depression or anxiety or any sort of pain/mental anguish combo, being able to take the power out of it through laughter is a pretty powerful tool.

I laughed more in the hospital than I ever have in my life, making fun of all the weird things that were happening to me.

My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.

I can be in the worst PMS, Mercury in retrograde, most awful circumstance - and then if my girlfriends and I are giggling about it, everything's okay.

If you laugh at it, you can deal with it.

Cancer is a word, not a sentence.

Laughter is the only thing that'll cut trouble down to a size where you can talk to it.