Lincoln Steffens Quotes

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

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

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Having a sense of humor about yourself is a sign of mental health.

Keeping a sense of humor about life. My parents divorced when I was 8, and whenever I felt down, my mom would remind me that a sense of humor gets you through just about anything.

No, my young apprentice. You said the exact right thing. Again. I'm just laughing at life." "Why?" he asked, opening both his eyes. "Because sometimes it's either laugh or cry. I prefer laugh. How about you?

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

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

Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. It's not what happens to you that matters but how you respond.

There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all.

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

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

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

If you haven't got a sense of humor you're making your life a hundred times harder. It doesn't matter what happens to you, if you can have a laugh about it, and don't take yourself so serious, you have the battles halfway won.

we find that the optimists have an undeniable advantage over the pessimists. Many studies show that they do better on exams, in their chosen profession, and in their relationships, live longer and in better health, enjoy a better chance of surviving postoperative shock, and are less prone to depression and suicide.

You could say that my life's a mess. But, I'm still looking pretty in this dress.

Perhaps the greatest psychological, spiritual, and medical need that all people have is the need for hope.

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.

What I got was not so much gifts and whishes come trues but a feeling of peace. I got peace itself, actually. And when you have peace, you can be strong; and when you are strong, you can get through what you have to get through, and not with exhaustion and frown marks and slumped shoulders but with relative happiness, and humor, and sometimes even gaiety.

Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.

Guard your good mood.