Sabaa Tahir Quotes

I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.

Life is hard, you know. If I can give someone on the radio three minutes to make them feel happier, that's a cool thing.

All comedy shows make me feel better about everything.

Hope and encouragement, especially hope, is probably one of the greatest things you can give another person.

If somebody has hope, don't take that away from them, because maybe that's all they have.

A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.

You should laugh everywhere you can find even the slightest glimmer of humour.

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

I won't hold any illusions of changing the world or any such nonsense. But maybe, just maybe, I'm helping someone else change his or her life a little bit for the better, even if it just means giving someone a magical place in which to hide.

I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

Even in your darkest moments, you'll think of something that'll crack you up.

I really try to have fun. If I don't have fun, you won't have fun. That's what my gift is: to relieve people from a little of the pain and comfort in their lives by allowing my comedy to distract them. A good laugh is almost as good as any doctor visit.

Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader, a reminder that the world is not such a terribly serious place. There is more than video games and drugs and nuclear threats; there is laughter, and there is hope.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

I'd be hard-pressed to think of anybody who's made me laugh, who's funny, but who's also relentlessly positive.

I always say to myself that if I can make a movie that makes a kid smile or gives them some hope or something to get excited about, then I'm applying myself in the best way that I can. I don't think that just goes for kids. I think that it goes for adults, as well, and for families.

I sing my life. It's like I'm having group therapy 350 days a year, and the people who come to the show get that, and they're there for that - whether it's to be lifted up, or to be lifted out, or just entertained or inspired, or to feel not so alone.

We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any book, any romance. It's entertainment, it's escape, and it can even be an inspiration!

People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.

I think in the darkest moments, we need a break.

Humor is healing.

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