laughter on Medicine

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Laughter is the most beautiful and beneficial therapy God ever granted humanity.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitter for the moment. Cheerfulness keeps up daylight in the mind, filling it with steady and perpetual serenity.

Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

God–Father, Son and Holy Spirit; Lord of all our yesterdays, todays and tomorrows: thank you that we don’t need to be afraid of what’s coming because you’re already there ahead of us. Nothing takes yo...

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, a rather too scarce a good thing.

A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.

If Laughter cannot solve your problems, it will definitely DISSOLVE your problems; so that you can think clearly what to do about them.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.

The secret of life lies in laughter and humility.

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.

Laughter should dimple the cheek, not furrow the brow. A jest should be such that all shall be able to join in the laugh which it occasions; but if it bears hard upon one of the company, like the crac...

Because humor brings us back to earth, it helps us to use well what is left to us even when we are keenly aware of what we have lost or been denied. Only those who know how to weep can also laugh hear...

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for onl...

I should like my epitaph to say, ‘He helped people see God in the ordinary things of life, and he made children laugh.

Leader: Come, and worship the Lord, who fills mouths with laughter and tongues with shouts of joy. People: The Lord has done great things for us, and so we rejoice. Leader: May those who sow in te...

Laughter and tears are the warp and woof of life. If you leave them out of preaching, you are leaving out life itself.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

As we wait, it is critical that we keep our sense of humor in the fullest meaning of that word. When laughter goes, so does hope. When God reaffirms his promise to Abraham and Sarah, he restores not o...

Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.

Humor is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

The years continue to pass and Sarah still does not conceive, but one day God speaks to Abraham and reassures him that, despite her great age, she will bear a son. And, sure enough, it happens. I once...

A tear today is an investment in a laugh tomorrow.

The mouth filled with real laughter…is an image representing the end of days, the overcoming of separateness and closure. In this world, it remains a mere possibility that constantly destroys itself.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

The Power (and Peril) of Words One time, I lied to the elders. (That’s another story except to say that they were blinded by trust.) It wasn’t a big lie—I said I’d done something I hadn’t—but I reali...

Father – God of Joy and Hope; Wonderful Lord and Spirit of delight and wonder: You invite us to come to you with thanksgiving and joy, laughter and quiet awe. Your arms of welcome are out wide. So we ...

It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

Laughter means nothing unless there have been tears.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.