Events Quotes

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every pebble in the road.

Henry Ward Beecher

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference ... it pardons shortcomings it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.

Thornton Wilder

Were it not for my little jokes I could not bear the burdens of this office.

Abraham Lincoln

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

Harry S. Truman

Humor is an attitude. It's a way of looking at life and of telling others how you feel about what's happening around you.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

William Saroyan

Everyday ... life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust our old programs accordingly.

Dr. Ann Faraday

There are more serious problems in life than financial ones and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before and will be again. Heartbroke? That's serious. Lose a few bucks? That's not.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action not reaction.

Coming events cast their shadows before.

Thomas Campbell

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

Thomas W. Higginson

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Katherine Mansfield

I think laughter may be a form of courage.... As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

Evelyn Underhill

Humor is my sword and my shield. It protects me. You can open a door with humor and drive a truck right through.

Laughter can be more satisfying than honor more precious than money more heart-cleansing than prayer.

Harriet Rochlin

Laughter is ever young whereas tragedy except the very highest of all quickly becomes haggard.

Margaret Sackville

A chuckle a day may not keep the doctor away but it sure does make those times in life's waiting room a little more bearable.

Anne Wilson Schaef

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive tolerate the unpleasant cope with the unexpected and smile through the unbearable.

One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

Sara Jeannette Duncan

To jealousy nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Françoise Sagan

Humor is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Wrinkles should only indicate where smiles have been.

Ethel Barrymore

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it you might as well laugh about it now.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.

Plautus

This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Euripides

Courage in the final analysis is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.

Dr. Kurt Goldstein

Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it.

General William T. Sherman

To accept whatever comes regardless of the consequences is to be unafraid.

John Cage

Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the birth of your new.

Find the grain of truth in criticism - chew it and swallow it.

You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand but you play it.

Boys this is only game. But it's like life in that you will be dealt some bad hands. Take each hand good or bad and don't whine and complain but play it out. If you're men enough to do that God will help and you will come out well.

Dwight D. Eisenhower's mother

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determination the way you play it is free will.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you do hold well.

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

James A. Michener

True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home.

John Hay

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila.

Humor is an antidote to isolation.

Elizabeth Janeway

Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.

Lyn Karol

Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Trouble is the thing that strong men grow by. Met in the right way it is a sure-fire means of putting iron into the victim's will and making him a tougher man to down forever after.

H. Bertram Lewis

Riches like glory or health have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

Michel de Montaigne

When all that hate energy was focused on me it was transformed into a fantastic energy. It was supporting me. If you are centered and you can transform all this energy that comes in it will help you. If you believe it is going to kill you it will kill you.

Yoko Ono

If you are being run out of town get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Anonymous

Experience is not what happens to you it is what you do with what happens to you.

Whatever evil befalls us we ought to ask ourselves ... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion from one bitter root to raise perhaps many flowers.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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