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“The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.”

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Author:Sara Davidson

“the boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.”

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Book:A Place Called Saturday

Source: A Place Called Saturday

“Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.”

Real Anxiety Laughter Transformation

Book:In My Own Way: An Autobiography

Source: In My Own Way: An Autobiography

“A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.”

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Book:In My Own Way: An Autobiography

Source: In My Own Way: An Autobiography

“...sometimes we ask ourselves why happiness took so long to arrive, why it didn't come sooner, but appears suddenly, as now, when we've given up hope of it ever arriving, it's likely then that we won't know what to do, and rather than it being a question of choosing between laughter and tears, we will be filled by a secret anxiety to which we might not know how to respond at all.”

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Author:Jose Saramago

“A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge.”

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Author:Dave Barry

“Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.”

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Author:Will Durst

“Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.”

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Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“When ypu awaken love and laughter in your life, your mind lets go of fear and anxiety, and your happy spirit becomes the healing balm that transforms every aspect of your human experience.”

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Book:The Good Life with Jesse Dylan: Redefining Your Health with the Greatest Visionaries of Our Time

Source: The Good Life with Jesse Dylan: Redefining Your Health with the Greatest Visionaries of Our Time

“Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.”

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Book:Hippocrates

Source: Hippocrates