Laughter Quotes And Sayings Enriched With Health Benefits

Today I would like to share some of my favorite laughter quotes and sayings with you. Do you know you can laugh your way to health? Yes, this is no laughing matter. Our sense of humor is a God-given gift for us to cope stress and strain of our daily lives.

Be it a silly giggle, casual chuckle, snicker or a roaring guffaw; laughter can make us feel better and fitter. The power of our laughter has many benefits. A good hearty laugh can relieve physical tension and reduce stress level.

laughter quotes and sayingsLaughter Is Good For Your Health
Each time when you laugh, your body releases the body’s natural feel-good chemicals or hormones called endorphins into the blood stream. This endorphins help our an overall sense of well-being and can also temporarily relieve pain.

Laughter Protects The Heart
Laughter increases your blood flow, and that can help protect you against a heart attack and other cardiovascular problem.

I am sure you have read or heard about Laughter Therapy and Laughter Yoga (Hasyayoga). Our body cannot distinguish between real or fake laughter. In other words, any kind of laughter, be it real or fake, it doesn't matter. The physiologically and psychologically benefits to you are the same.

So, it is true that laughter is the best medicine. Never underestimate the healing power of laughter.

Anyway, here is my selection of laughing quotes and sayings to motivate you to laugh more and live longer.

"Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on." - Bob Newhart

"A day without laughter is a day wasted." - Charlie Chaplin

"Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit." - Unknown

"You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing." - Michael Pritchard

“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.” - Unknown

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." -E.E. Cummings

“Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Laughter is an instant vacation." - Milton Berle

“The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.” - Shirley MacLaine

“An optimist laughs to forget, a pessimist forgets to laugh.” - Unknown

"Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection." - Yakov Smirnoff

“That is the best - to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.” - Gloria Vanderbilt

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." - Victor Borge

"What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul." - Yiddish Proverb

“Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.” - Mort Walker

"When people are laughing, they're generally not killing each other." - Alan Alda

"A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book." - Irish Proverb

"A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash." - Puzant Kevork Thomajan

"There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh." - Françoise Sagan

"I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth." - Quincy Jones

"Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks." - Henri Bergson

"A man isn't poor if he can still laugh." - Raymond Hitchcock

"Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food." - Anna Fellows Johnston

"A good time to laugh is any time you can." - Linda Ellerbee

"Seven days without laughter makes one weak." - Mort Walker

"A laugh is a smile that bursts." - Mary H. Waldrip

"Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects." - Arnold Glasow

"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Before the assault of laughter nothing can stand." - Mark Twain