Laughter Is A Best Medicine Quotes & Sayings

I did an event in Washington, and it was like we lifted a sea.Immediately after [9/11], there was a stunned shock - kind of this feeling of "What do we do now?" I started performing, and there was a catharsis in the laughing. People started to be able to laugh again. Laughter can be many things - sometimes a medicine, sometimes a weapon, depending on. — Robin Williams

Childrens' laughter is like medicine to sadness. — Tyler Perry

Quit acting like everything is so serious. Most situations aren't as bad as you fear, and those that are might benefit from a little laughter. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Laughter is the best medicine but if you laugh with no reason, you need medicine. — Me XD

It's true that laughter really is cheap medicine. It's a prescription anyone can afford. And best of all, you can fill it right now. — Steve Goodier

Your honour's players, hearing your amendment,
Are come to play a pleasant comedy,
For so your doctors hold it very meet,
Seeing too much sadness hath congealed your blood,
And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.
Therefore they thought it good you hear a play,
And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,
Which bars a thousand harms and lenghtens life. — William Shakespeare

If laughter is the best medicine, let's OD together. — Michael P. Clutton

She had no scars to show for her happiness except her laughter lines — Srividya Srinivasan

It is never possible to completely reconstruct a person's life from what they leave behind - the absurdity of it all, the pain, the triumphs. What's lost is lost forever, and the silences are telling. But why mourn what we'll lose anyway? Laughter truly is the best medicine, and I find whisky tends to numb and burn what's left behind. — Thackery T. Lambshead

The possibility to love another scared me; terrified me actually. Being a free spirit, apart of me is most alive when roaming, than I became a mother and for the first time I felt my heart live outside my body and that's the moment his laughter became my medicine. — Nikki Rowe

I laugh for sheer medicinal purposes; because I feel I might die otherwise. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Laughter is the best medicine for a long and happy life. He who laughs lasts! — Wilferd Peterson

Without the dark there isn't light. Without the pain there is no relief. And I remind myself that I'm lucky to be able to feel such great sorrow, and also such great happiness. I can grab on to each moment of joy and live in those moments because I have seen the bright contrast from dark to light and back again. I am privileged to be able to recognize that the sound of laughter is a blessing and a song, and to realize that the bright hours spent with my family and friends are extraordinary treasures to be saved, because those same moments are a medicine, a balm. Those moments are a promise that life is worth fighting for, and that promise is what pulls me through when depression distorts reality and tries to convince me otherwise. — Jenny Lawson

Laughter is a medicine you've got to use to drive away blues. — Goswami Kriyananda

Reframing your past painful experiences and seeing them in a humorous light takes away the power and emotional charge attached to the memory of the hurtful event. — Miya Yamanouchi

In a world of regret, sacrifice and hardship, laughter and music are medicine. — Immortal Technique

The health benefits, both mental and physical, of humor are well documented. A good laugh can diffuse tension, relieve stress, and release endorphins into your system, which act as a natural mood elevator. In Norman Cousin's book, Anatomy of an Illness, Cousin's describes the regimen he followed to overcome a serious debilitating disease he was suffering from. It included large doses of laughter and humor. Published in 1976, his book has been widely accepted by the medical community. — Cherie Carter-Scott

Comedy can be very freeing. Laughter truly is the best medicine. — Christina Applegate