Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the day.
- Ann Landers

Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever.
- Walt Disney

You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
- Stephen King

It's when you cry just a little but you laugh in the middle that you've made it
And don't it feel alright. and don't it feel so nice.
Lovely.

- Jason Mraz

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
- Robert Fulghum

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints
Sinners are much more fun...
- Billy Joel

If I didn’t have one good laugh in a day, it wasn’t a good day.
- Drew Barrymore

Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.
- Jack Handey, "Deep Thoughts," Saturday Night Live

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

- Kurt Vonnegut

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 through tears is my favorite emotion.

- Truvy, Steel Magnolias

I am humbled in this city
There seems to be an endless sea of people like us
Wakeful dreamers, I pass them on the sunlit streets
In our rooms filled with laughter
We make hope from every small disaster

- The Weepies

"I will give you a light which will guide you when all other lights have gone out." [Katharine Hepburn]

You are my light.

Love, Mom
written from Susan Eckman to Katharine Eckman; April 6, 2008

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"Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when nothing changes a speck, when you don't go anywhere or do anything or think one new thought. And then you can get hit with a day or an hour, or half a second, when so much happens its almost like you are born all over again into some brand-new person you for damn sure never expected to meet."

"Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experienced downs?"

"Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you must not forget to laugh."

-Katharine Hepburn
written to Susan Eckman, from Katharine Eckman, April 7, 2008

we are for each other; then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis
- e.e. cummings

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but so would an 80 pound carrot.
- Paul Ruebens