It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
You shall learn to laugh. Now, all higher humor begins with this, that one no longer takes one's person seriously.
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
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The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
Earth laughs in flowers.
To laugh is proper to man.
Since I learned to laugh at myself, I'm never bored.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
Without the laughter, there would be no Tao.
What forbids me from telling the truth with a laugh?
Yet it is better to accept public morals and human vices calmly without bursting into either laughter or tears.
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
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