Lin Yutang Quotes

When you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel.

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.

I try to cope with everything through humor.

Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying or getting overly angry or to maintain control.

Music stops you from thinking.

Sometimes I yell at my cancer cells, sometimes I make myself laugh.

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

I'd go mad if I didn't have things to make me laugh.

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.

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.

Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

If I have a rough day, and I'm angry, I'll just go into Kirk Douglas and throw over a table. And when I need to lift my spirits, Kermit can always do the trick.

I put a limited time on the blues. I say, 'I allowed myself to be blue for four hours, and now I'm going to stop.'

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

I still get mad. I still get upset. But I let it go more quickly.

I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

I went through a period where I just wanted to punch everybody. Since then, I've had a lot of therapy and I've figured a lot of things out.

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

Let's say I'm not feeling well, and somebody would say to me, 'Just do an easy show, just go out and do a light...' - I can't! I cannot do that kind of a show. I have to still put 150 percent into it, and it's funny: it's so healing to do that.

Humor is healing.

Laughter can bring a new perspective.

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.