H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Humor disarms shame. It invites curiosity. It helps us step back from the intensity just long enough to breathe, reflect, and try something new.”
Source: The Therapist's Handbook for Healing Your Simpsons Syndrome: Unhook from Your Inner Chaos Characters with CBT, ACT, and a Little Humor
“Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.”
Source: Points of View
“Humor does depend on surprise, and the things that people remember as the funniest things in the world, you look at later and you go, "What? What was that all about?"”
“Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.”
“Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.”
“Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.”
“Humor, drama, romance, whatever genre of entertainment you create or consume is only effective if it is challenging to your sensibilities. When the sexuality of seeing a woman’s ankles became trumped by her calf, society changed. When the calf was later trumped by a woman offering shots of alcohol from her vagina on Rock of Love, society changed again. My hope for this world is that we can soon run out of shocking body parts and can finally see the humor in our ætheric bodies.”
“Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives.”
“Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.”
Source: The Healing Power of Humor: Techniques for Getting Through Loss, Setbacks, Upsets, Disappointments, Difficulties, Trials, Tribulations, and All that Not-so-funny Stuff
“Humor gives presidents the chance to be seen as warm, relaxed persons. Humor reaches out and puts its arm around the listener and says, 'I am one of you, I understand,' and implicitly it promises, 'I will do something about your problems.'”
“Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.”
Source: Under dispute
“Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.”
“Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.”
“Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.”
“Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.”
Source: Lana--the lady, the legend, the truth
“Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.”
“Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.”
Source: Carlyle's Works ...
“Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.”
“Humor heals the heckler.”
“Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.”
“Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.”
Source: Then Again
“Humor hides pain. The only thing both of them could do was laugh.”
Source: Tajrish
“Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their opposites. It is a humane influence, softening with mirth the ragged inequities of existence, prompting tolerant views of life, bridging over the space which separates the lofty from the lowly, the great from the humble.”
“Humor interferes with the downward spiral of energy-zapping thoughts, by helping us to notice the absurdity of situations that trigger anger or the feeling of being threatened.”
Source: The Passionate Life : Creating Vitality & Joy at Any Age
“Humor is a bit like Mary Poppins' sugar-it helps the medicine go down. A little bit of humor allows people to think about very difficult subjects.”
“Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.”
“Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing.”
“Humor is a great way to relieve stress.”
“Humor is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.”
“Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.”
Source: Enjoyment of Laughter
“Humor is a marvelous communications tool, as Reagan has demonstrated so well. He has weathered many a storm that others might not have. With Reagan, people just say, 'There he goes again.' A sense of humor allows a president to back off a little from the tensions of the moment and take a calmer view of things.”
“Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.”
“Humor is a part of spirituality.”
“Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.”
Source: Discerning the Signs of the Times - Sermons for Today and Tomorrow
“Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom.”
Source: Princes, Playboys & High-Class Tarts
“Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.”
“Humor is a show of both strength and of vulnerability: you are willing to make the first move but you are trusting in the response of your listener.”
Source: They Used to Call Me Snow White ... But I Drifted: Women's Strategic Use of Humor
“Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.”
Source: How to be funny: discovering the comic you
“Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises.”
“Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.”
“Humor is a tonic for life's trials. Laughter is the music of the soul. May your day have plenty of each”
“Humor is a tool to ease the harsh realities of life.”
“Humor is a universal language.”
“Humor is a vastly underrated tool for relationship and trust-building. Comedian, conductor, and pianist Victor Borge famously stated that “laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” I have absolutely found this to be true in both my personal relationships as well as my coaching relationships.”
Source: Conscious Coaching: The Art and Science of Building Buy-In
“Humor is a very big part of life, and if you exclude humor from your book, you're not capturing a very important part of human experience.”
“Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.”
“Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.”
Source: A Man Without a Country
“Humor is about perspective, and hanging out with people who see life through a similar lens is so important.”
“Humor is all about timing.”
“Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.”
Source: Bag Of Bones: A Novel