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Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.
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Lord Byron
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Without the dark there isnโt light. Without the pain there is no relief. And I remind myself that Iโm lucky to be able to feel such great sorrow, and also such great happiness. I can grab on to each moment of joy and live in those moments because I have seen the bright contrast from dark to light and back again. I am privileged to be able to recognize that the sound of laughter is a blessing and a song, and to realize that the bright hours spent with my family and friends are extraordinary treasures to be saved, because those same moments are a medicine, a balm. Those moments are a promise that life is worth fighting for, and that promise is what pulls me through when depression distorts reality and tries to convince me otherwise.
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Jenny Lawson (Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things)
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If laughter is the best medicine, let's OD together.
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Michael P. Clutton
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Whoever said laughter is the best medicine was right - it's also the glue that holds friendships together. To laugh together at life's ridiculous turn of events makes those events bearable. To laugh at the funny things in life makes life wonderful. The real gift is having a friend to shareโฆlaughter with.
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Ellen Jacob (You're The Best Friend Ever)
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You're going to make it;
You're going to be at peace;
You're going to create, and love, and laugh, and live;
You're going to do great things.
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Germany Kent
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Itโs true that laughter really is cheap medicine. Itโs a prescription anyone can afford. And best of all, you can fill it right now.
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Steve Goodier
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Laughter is the only medicine, without side effects.
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Shannon L. Alder
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It never ceases to amaze me the precious time we spend chasing the squirrels around our brains, playing out our dramas, worrying about unwanted facial hair, seeking adoration, justifying our actions, complaining about slow Internet connections, dissecting the lives of idiots, when we are sitting in the middle of a full-blown miracle that is happening right here, right now.
We're on a planet that somehow knows how to rotate on its axis and follow a defined path while it hurtles through space! Our hearts beat! We can see! We have love, laughter, language, living rooms, computers, compassion, cars, fire, fingernails, flowers, music, medicine, mountains, muffins!
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Jen Sincero (You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life)
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Whoever said laughter is the best medicine had clearly never tasted scotch.
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Anne Taintor
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When people are doing their utmost to upset you, it's probably best to just laugh at them.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
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People can laugh at you, it will do them goodโlaughter is always a medicine, healthful. People can think you are mad โฆ just because they think you are mad, you donโt become mad.
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Osho (Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously (Osho Insights for a New Way of Living))
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Are you a doctor?โ she asked. He looked up at her and smiled that disarming smile again. โIโm a joker, my lady, which is even better.โ โHow is that better than a doctor?โ โHavenโt you ever heard that laughter is the best medicine?
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Marissa Meyer (Heartless)
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Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.
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Jack Handey
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I laugh for sheer medicinal purposes; because I feel I might die otherwise.
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Richelle E. Goodrich (Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year)
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Childrens' laughter is like medicine to sadness.
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Tyler Perry
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Life is difficult and those who make us laugh are angels.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
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Elder's Meditation of the Day - February 18
"laughter is a necessity in life that does not cost much, and the Old Ones say that one of the greatest healing powers in our life is the ability to laugh."
--Larry P. Aitken, CHIPPEWA
Laughter is a good stress eliminator. Laughter causes healing powers to be distributed through our bodies. Laughter helps heal relationships that are having problems. Laughter can change other people. Laughter can heal the sick. Laughter is spiritual. One of the greatest gifts among Indian people has been our ability to laugh. Humor is natural to Indian people. Sometimes the only thing left to do is laugh.
Great Spirit, allow me to laugh when times get tough.
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Larry P. Aitken (Two Cultures Meet: Pathways for American Indians to Medicine)
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for laughter is the perfect medicine for the tortured heart, the balm for misery,
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Dean Koontz (Life Expectancy)
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How strange, thought Perdu, that one laugh can wipe away so much hardship and suffering. A single laugh. And the years flow together andโฆaway.
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Nina George (The Little Paris Bookshop)
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If laughter is the best medicine, then why do we all have medicine cabinets full of stuff?
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Christina Estabrook
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My condolences, you're still alive.
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Fakeer Ishavardas
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They say laughter is the best medicine. They lie. Its brownies. -E-card Jack
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Lani Lynn Vale (Last Day of My Life (Freebirds, #4))
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Without a sense of humour one's wisdom is but a rumour.
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Fakeer Ishavardas
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The worst part about being sick is not getting any sympathy from my wife. She says I have the "man-flu." The Urban Dictionary defines "man-flu" as "an illness that causes the male to be completely helpless and sicker than any other family member." In females it is known as a cold.
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James Collins (Don't Throw the Believer Out with the Baptistry Water: The Best of The Point Is... Volume 1)
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They say laughter is the best medicine, and I agree. Plus, itโs free, has no bad side effects and is available to EVERYONE.
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Mindy Levy
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Comedy is the finest drug, laughter is the best medicine.
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D.M. Jarrett
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Life in These United States. Laughter Is the Best Medicine.
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Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)
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Panicking never helps.
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Kimberly Davis Basso (I'm A Little Brain Dead)
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I am not trying to be funny, it is just that you're a joke.
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Fakeer Ishavardas
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Laughter is the best medicine.
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Andy Griffiths (The 117-Story Treehouse (Treehouse, 9))
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Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.
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Benjamin De Casseres
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Laughter IS the BEST medicine! Itโs FREE! You can overdose on it! It helps you embrace the insanities of life! It reduces stress, heals your body and relieves pain! It fights disease and cancer and strengthens the immune system! It eases your mind, it protects your heart and soothes your soul!
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Tanya Masse
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May your home be so holy with laughter that wounded birds lean against your door to listen and heal.
โ Richard Van Camp's Twitter and Facebook Posts, July 22, 2017
(Ma traduction en franรงais : Que votre maison soit si bรฉnie par le rire que les oiseaux blessรฉs sโappuient contre votre porte pour รฉcouter et guรฉrir.)
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Richard Van Camp (Gather: Richard Van Camp on the Joy of Storytelling (Writers on Writing, 3))
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The health benefits, both mental and physical, of humor are well documented. A good laugh can diffuse tension, relieve stress, and release endorphins into your system, which act as a natural mood elevator. In Norman Cousin's book, Anatomy of an Illness, Cousin's describes the regimen he followed to overcome a serious debilitating disease he was suffering from. It included large doses of laughter and humor. Published in 1976, his book has been widely accepted by the medical community.
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Cherie Carter-Scott (If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for Being Human as Introduced in Chicken Soup for the Soul)
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I am denied the usual path, usual phrase
Carrying the same eyes in a cursed maze
I thrive in deep; I suffocate in shores
Laughter is not my medicine
Sorrows are my whores
Opaque mirror my esoteric words
every silence is forgiven
As long as the wisdom holds
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Yarro Rai (Philophobia: The Hip Version)
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The possibility to love another scared me; terrified me actually. Being a free spirit, apart of me is most alive when roaming, than I became a mother and for the first time I felt my heart live outside my body and that's the moment his laughter became my medicine.
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Nikki Rowe
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My journey will hopefully help others.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Be strong.
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Tracy Jane Hartman
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Laughter is much better than anger.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
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I have to tell you the truth. But you are too ugly for it.
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Fakeer Ishavardas
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Please believe me. I've nothing against you personally. It's just that I laugh at all jokes.
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Fakeer Ishavardas
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I swear I've good morals. It's just that bad ones befriend me. I'm a friendly person, you know. But I will talk to them. Believe you me.
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Fakeer Ishavardas
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You inspire, you put a smile on someone's face, you make someone laugh or deeply touch a person's heart. We all have that in ourselves no matter how tough our journeys are.
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Shellie Palmer (The Journey Ahead (The Poetry))
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Her joyful spirit would bring laughter and happiness to anyone in her life with the same natural ease that a rose blooms and sheds its perfume.
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Aleksandra Layland (Of Wisdom and Valor: The Art of War. The Path of Peace.)
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After being diagnose as bi-polar...I feel that laughter is the best medicine for all.ย I find that I can't write humorously and be depressed at the same time.:)
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Timothy Pina
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A good laughter is as uplifting as a good teaching, for it is simply meditation.
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Abhijit Naskar
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Tis good to laugh. Yer gotta laugh and laugh out loud,โ said the leprechaun. โYou can cry if you want to but laughinโs better.
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Jacqueline Edgington (Happy Jack)
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Laughter is good medicine for the soul. Our world is desperately in need of more such medicine.
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Jim Stovall (The Ultimate Gift: A Novel (The Ultimate Gift Series Book 1))
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Comedy is not the opposite of darkness, but its natural bedfellow. Pain makes laughter necessary; laughter makes pain tolerable.
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Mindy Greenstein
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That laughter, thought Ciri watching swarms of black birds flying eastwards, that laughter, shared and sincere, really brought us together, her and me.
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Andrzej Sapkowski (Blood of Elves (The Witcher, #1))
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Laughter is a balm for the afflicted, the best defense against despair, the only medicine for melancholy.
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Leigh Nichols (The Eyes of Darkness)
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Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Don't, and the world laughs at you.
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Fakeer Ishavardas
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Laughter is a balm for the afflicted, the best defense against despair, the only medicine for melancholy. -Groucho Marx
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Dean Koontz (The Eyes of Darkness)
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Laughter isn't the best medicine. Feeling that you're in safe hands is.
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Ben MacFarlane (Holiday SOS: The Life-Saving Adventures of a Travelling Doctor)
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Laughing about your mistakes and disappointments brings sweet humility and self-acceptance as you explore your inner world through spirituality, therapy, writing, art, or other creative work.
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Rachel Wooten (Tara)
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The biology of emotional freedom depends on getting your endorphins flowing and turning off your stress hormones. How you achieve this? Laughter, exercise, meditation and doing anything that makes you loved.
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Judith Orloff (Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life)
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His lips spread in a manic grin, and he filled his helmet with so much laughter that his stomach cramped. He moved his limbs one by one to test them. Heโd broken his left wrist for sure, maybe a few ribs as well, but despite that, the smile never left his face. Pain could be treated and bones healed, but all the medicine in the galaxy couldnโt fix dead. And he wasnโt dead. He couldnโt wait to tell the crew.
โIโm okay,โ he reported. โA little banged up, but nothing major. Kane, when this is over, Iโm going to have your baby!
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Melissa Landers (Starflight (Starflight, #1))
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hiring new staff at her public library, my daughter always asks applicants what sort of supervision theyโd be most comfortable with. One genius answered, โIโve always thought Supermanโs X-ray vision would be cool.โ โ DAVE GLAUSER
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Reader's Digest Association (Laughter Really Is The Best Medicine: America's Funniest Jokes, Stories, and Cartoons)
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I know Julian," Gregori volunteered, his white teeth gleaming in the darkness. Water lapped at the boat, making a peculiar slapping sound. The rocking was more soothing and peaceful than disturbing.
Beau looked smug. "I thought you might. You both have a connection to Savannah, you both ask the same questions about natural medicine, and you both look as intimidating as hell."
"I am nicer than he is," Gregori said, straight-faced.
Savannah's head brushed his chest. Her laughter was sweet music in the stifling heat of the swamp.
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Christine Feehan (Dark Magic (Dark, #4))
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Laughter really is the best medicine and there are no strict lines to be drawn for its use. You shouldn't assume you understand why someone is joking about something and you should never ever rob somebody of their sense of humor. You might just be taking away their lifeline.
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Set Sytes (How Not to Kill Yourself: A Survival Guide for Imaginative Pessimists)
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In the end, a person is only know by the impact he or she has on others.
The Gift of Work: He who loves his work never labors.
The Gift of Money: Money is nothing more than a tool. It can be a force for good, a force for evil, or simple be idle.
The Gift of Friends: It is a wealthy person, indeed, who calculates riches not in gold but in friends.
The Gift of Learning: Education is a lifelong journey whose destination expands as you travel. The desire and hunger for education is the key to real learning.
The Gift of Problems: Problems can only be avoided by exercising good judgment. Good judgment can only be gained by experiencing life's problems.
The Gift of Family: Some people are born into wonderful families. Others have to find or create them. Being a member of a family is a priceless privilege which costs nothing but love.
The Gift of Laughter: Laughter is good medicine for the soul. Our world is desperately in need of more such medicine.
The Gift of Dreams: Faith is all that dreamers need to see into the future.
The Gift of Giving: The only way you can truly get more out of life for yourself is to give part of yourself away. One of the key principles in giving, is that the gift must be yours to give-either something you earned or created or maybe, simply, part of yourself.
The Gift of Gratitude: In those times when we yearn to have more in our lives, we should dwell on the things we already have. In doing so, we will often find that our lives are already full to overflowing.
The Golden List: Every morning before getting up visualize a golden tablet on which is written ten things in your life you are especially thankful for.
The Gift of a Day: Life at its essence boils down to one day at a time. Today is the Day! If we can learn how to live one day to its fullest, our lives will be rich and meaningful.
The Gift of Love: Love is a treasure for which we can never pay. The only way we keep it is to give it away.
The Ultimate Gift: In the end, life lived to its fullest is its own ultimate gift.
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Jim Stovall (The Ultimate Gift (The Ultimate Series #1))
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You do a good work," Sigzil said, rising, picking up his bowl. "At first, I hated you for lying to the men. But I have come to see that a false hope makes them happy. What you do is like giving medicine to a sick man to ease his pain until he dies. Now these men can spend their last days in laughter. You are a healer indeed, Kaladin Stormblessed."
Kaladin wanted to object, to say that it wasn't a false hope, but he couldn't. Not with his heart in his stomach. Not with what he knew.
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Brandon Sanderson (The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1))
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As wondrous as life was, it was also full of sadness, and the best way to get past the sad parts and enjoy all the rest was to find the humor in even the darkness. Laughter wasnโt just a medicine for melancholy, but also a sword raised against evil. A laugh said, You canโt scare me into surrender, Iโll fight you hard to the end.
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Dean Koontz (Elsewhere)
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My wife and I were living in Cambridge, Massachusettsโthe quintessential college town. Rushing through the supermarket checkout, we didnโt notice we were in a 12-item line and what we had was way over the limit. The weary cashier looked at all our groceries. โAre you from Harvard and canโt count or from MIT and canโt read?โ โ BRADFORD
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Reader's Digest Association (Laughter Really Is The Best Medicine: America's Funniest Jokes, Stories, and Cartoons)
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Tom felt that it was time to wake up; this sort of life might be romantic enough, in his blighted condition, but it was getting to have too little sentiment and too much distracting variety about it. So he thought over various plans for relief, and finally hit pon that of professing to be fond of Pain-killer. He asked for it so often that he became a nuisance, and his aunt ended by telling him to help himself and quit bothering her. If it had been Sid, she would have had no misgivings to alloy her delight; but since it was Tom, she watched the bottle clandestinely. She found that the medicine did really diminish, but it did not occur to her that the boy was mending the health of a crack in the sitting-room floor with it.
One day Tom was in the act of dosing the crack when his aunt's yellow cat came along, purring, eying the teaspoon avariciously, and begging for a taste. Tom said:
"Don't ask for it unless you want it, Peter."
But Peter signified that he did want it.
"You better make sure."
Peter was sure.
"Now you've asked for it, and I'll give it to you, because there ain't anything mean about me; but if you find you don't like it, you mustn't blame anybody but your own self."
Peter was agreeable. So Tom pried his mouth open and poured down the Pain-killer. Peter sprang a couple of yards in the air, and then delivered a war-whoop and set off round and round the room, banging against furniture, upsetting flower-pots, and making general havoc. Next he rose on his hind feet and pranced around, in a frenzy of enjoyment, with his head over his shoulder and his voice proclaiming his unappeasable happiness. Then he went tearing around the house again spreading chaos and destruction in his path. Aunt Polly entered in time to see him throw a few double summersets, deliver a final mighty hurrah, and sail through the open window, carrying the rest of the flower-pots with him. The old lady stood petrified with astonishment, peering over her glasses; Tom lay on the floor expiring with laughter.
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Mark Twain (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
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Laughter wasnโt just a medicine for melancholy, but also a sword raised against evil. A laugh said, You canโt scare me into surrender, Iโll fight you hard to the end.
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Dean Koontz (Elsewhere)
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Laughter is the best medicine!!!!!!!!
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Anonymous
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Laughter was good medicine for the soul, and looking for things to be joyful about had helped Emma through the worst of her grief.
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Wanda E. Brunstetter
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From my travel blog @http://www.lwmcferrin.com/travel
When faced with disaster, the best medicine is laughter.
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Linda Watanabe McFerrin
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I still believe this Life is a good joke. And if you treat it that way, you will never stop laughing.
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James Hauenstein
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Nothing has to be funny. Sometimes I just laugh to heal my soul.
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TemitOpe Ibrahim
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They say laughter is the best medicine. They lie. Its brownies.
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Lani Lynn Vale (Last Day of My Life (Freebirds, #4))
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Quit acting like everything is so serious. Most situations arenโt as bad as you fear, and those that are might benefit from a little laughter.
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Richelle E. Goodrich (Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year)
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Dead people are just great. Meet me when you are.
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Fakeer Ishavardas
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Life gets so ridiculous, you just have to brush it off like sand and laugh. I think the laughter is good medicine for crap-itis.
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Ace Antonio Hall
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Children throw tantrums because they've imagined their 'father in heaven' does so. And because, their inherited religious book has, in written, shown them so.
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Fakeer Ishavardas
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Believe you me, I am all for you; and wish you well - for you to go to hell.
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Fakeer Ishavardas
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I love to laugh. Specially at myself. Sometimes I spend hours doing it.
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Nuno Roque
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An atheist is a person who has nobody to blame when he screws up.
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Fakeer Ishavardas
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If I were married, I would be unmarried.
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Fakeer Ishavardas
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So, your god is the only god? Okay, but then, so is my dog.
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Fakeer Ishavardas
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laughter is the best medicine in life, chocolate is the substitute!
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C.L. Bennett (Bugglepuffs And The Magic Key)
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I shall tell you about God once you've reached your imaginary heaven. Then, give me a call.
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Fakeer Ishavardas
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Laughter is the only medicine in the world that canโt be purchased at the pharmacy.
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Michael Bassey Johnson (The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes)
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When your parents tell you to act your age and you have a 8 year old brother; Just point over to him and say "Can I act his age instead?
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Ash
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Roses are Red
Violets are Violet
Shut the Frick up
Before I make you be Quiet
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Ash
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Guess it's true that human nature is programmed to fight. And laughter is the best medicine for almost every problem.
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L.J. Shen (Broken Knight (All Saints High, #2))
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Laughter is a balm for the afflicted, the best defense against despair, the only medicine for melancholy.โโ โWho said that?โ she asked. โShakespeare?โ โGroucho Marx, I
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Dean Koontz (The Eyes of Darkness)
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Laughing at yourself does more to heal the heart and mind than any medicine. Discouragement and despair cower under a good dose of laughter.
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Richelle E. Goodrich (Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year)
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Laughter is not our medicine. Stories hold our cure.
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Hannah Gadsby
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Human touch is powerful. It's calming. Free medicine. Like laughter.
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Julie Anne Lindsey (In Place of Never)
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Most people should laugh more; and, when they laugh, laugh heartily.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
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She (My Mom) taught me that health was my greatest wealth. We spent memorable times laughing โ the best medicine. Her actions instilled in me how to be a loving and attentive parent. My momโs genuine gifts have amplified throughout my life. What more could one ask from a mother?
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Donna Maltz (Living Like The Future Matters: The Evolution of a Soil to Soul Entrepreneur)
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Weโre on a planet that somehow knows how to rotate on its axis and follow a defined path while it hurtles through space! Our hearts beat! We can see! We have love, laughter, language, living rooms, computers, compassion, cars, fire, fingernails, flowers, music, medicine, mountains, muffins! We live in a limitless Universe overflowing with miracles! The fact that we arenโt stumbling around in an inconsolable state of sobbing awe is appalling. The Universe must be like, what more do I have to do to wake these bitches up? Make water, their most precious resource, rain down from the sky? The
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Jen Sincero (You Are a Badassยฎ: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life)
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A scholar came to me the other day and said "sir, why do you laugh so much - you are an eminent thinker of our century - you should appear more serious and composed" - hearing this, I burst out in yet another brief laughter and then said to him gently "my dear sir, why can't I laugh in front of my people, my own kind, my humanity, whom I hold most dear - what do I have to hide with the veil of seriousness - I would rather infect another person with a bit of joy through my laughter, than make them desperately serious, with pompous words - a good laughter is as uplifting as a good teaching, for it is simply meditation.
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Abhijit Naskar
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Ian's eyes settled on him, his expression grim. He bypassed everything, coming to a stop in front of the nervous young male. โI want all of your medicines to relieve fever, including liquids and capsules. Plus, I want a thermometer, the best one you have, and make sure it's not rectal.โ He narrowed his eyes at the wide-eyed clerk in front of him. โI don't do rectal, and I won't use anything that involves an ass.
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Rose Wynters (Voluptuous Vindication (The Endurers, #4))
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We're on a planet that somehow knows how to rotate on its axis and follow a defined path while it hurtles through space! Our hearts beat! We can see! We have love, laughter, language, living rooms, computers compassion, cars, fire, fingernails, flowers, music, medicine, mountains, muffins! We live in a limitless Universe overflowing with miracles! The fact that we aren't stumbling around in an inconsolable state of sobbing awe is appalling.
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Jen Sincero (You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life)
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If I flinched at every grief, I would be an intelligent idiot.
If I were not the sun, Iโd ebb and flow like sadness.
If you were not my guide, Iโd wander lost in Sanai.
If there were no light, Iโd keep opening and closing the door.
If there were no rose garden, where would the morning breezes go?
If love did not want music and laughter and poetry, what would I say?
If you were not medicine, I would look sick and skinny.
If there were no leafy limbs in the air, there would be no wet roots.
If no gifts were given, Iโd grow arrogant and cruel.
If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.
If there were no way from left to right, I could not
be swaying with the grasses.
If there were no grace and no kindness, conversation would be useless, and nothing we do would matter.
Listen
to the new stories that begin every day.
If light were not beginning again in the east,
I would not now wake and walk out inside this dawn.
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Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi (The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems โ Coleman Barks's Sublime Renderings of the 13th-Century Sufi Mystic's Insights into Divine Love and the Human Heart)
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As Jen Sincero wrote in her book You Are a Badass, โWeโre on a planet that somehow knows how to rotate on its axis and follow a defined path while it hurtles through space! Our hearts beat! We can see! We have love, laughter, language, living rooms, computers, compassion, cars, fire, fingernails, flowers, music, medicine, mountains, muffins! We live in a limitless Universe overflowing with miracles! The fact that we arenโt stumbling around in an inconsolable state of sobbing awe is appalling. The Universe must be like, โWhat more do I have to do to wake these bitches up?โโโ One
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Holly Whitaker (Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol)
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I wouldnโt have thought she had that much to say,โ Pandora agreed.
โPerhaps itโs just that sheโs never able to slide a word in edgewise,โ West remarked blandly.
A few seconds later, he was pelted with a shower of sugar lumps.
โGirls,โ Kathleen exclaimed indignantly. โStop that at once! West, donโt you dare encourage them by laughing!โ She sent a threatening glance at Devon, who was desperately trying to suppress his amusement. โOr you,โ she said severely.
โI wonโt,โ he promised, wincing and reflecting ruefully that whoever said laughter was the best medicine had never broken a rib.
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Lisa Kleypas (Cold-Hearted Rake (The Ravenels, #1))
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Zelna was forced to put Carlos in a care facility a couple of years ago, and when she moved to Philadelphia to live with her daughter, we lost touch. I miss herโI miss the care centreโbeing around other people who knew exactly what I was going through. Weโd often laugh about the crazy things our respective spouses or parents did or said. I remember Zelna cracking up when I told her about Reuben insisting on wearing his boxer shorts over his trousers, like he was auditioning for the role of a geriatric Superman. It wasnโt funny of course, but laughter can be the best medicine, donโt you think? If you donโt laugh, youโd cry.
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Sarah Lotz (The Three)