169 Joy And Laughter Quotes

Following is our list of joy and laughter quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about fun and joy.

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Famous Joy And Laughter Quotes

There is nothing more precious than laughter — Frida Kahlo

Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life." — Abraham Lincoln

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul. — Thomas Mann

Laughter is the fireworks of the soul. — Josh Billings

Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living. — Sean O'Casey

Laughter is the language of the soul. - Pablo Neruda

Laughter is the language of the soul. — Pablo Neruda

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. — Orison Swett Marden

Laughter is inner jogging. - Norman Cousins

Laughter is inner jogging. — Norman Cousins

Laugh my friend, for laughter ignites a fire within the pit of your belly and awakens your being. — Stella McCartney

Laughter is an instant vacation. - Milton Berle

Laughter is an instant vacation. — Milton Berle

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. - Charlie Chaplin

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. — Charlie Chaplin

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

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. — Jean Houston

Laughter can bring a new perspective. — Christopher Durang

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. — Karl Barth

Short Joy And Laughter Quotes

  • Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. — Victor Hugo
  • Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. — William Blake
  • Laughter is the best medicine in the world. — Milton Berle
  • Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God. — Beth Moore
  • It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation. — Abdu'l-Bahá
  • A good laugh is sunshine in the house. — William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer. — Reinhold Niebuhr
  • Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart. — Mort Walker
  • Laughter is the closest distance between two people. — Victor Borge
  • To laugh or cry is the most beautiful thing in the world — Roberto Benigni

Joy And Laughter Image Quotes

Joy and laughter quote New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

Happy Laughter Day Quotes

We're sending you best wishes And hope your day goes well And that you'll find some memories With stories you can tell Of how you had a marvelous time And those around you too With fun and lots of laughter And all this just for you.. Have a Very Happy Birthday — Janet Horne

Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile. — Cameron Diaz

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day. — Charles William Eliot

Joy and laughter quote Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

If you become silent after your laughter, one day you will hear God also laughing, you will hear the whole existence laughing - trees and stones and stars with you. — Osho

Each day brings its own colours to be chosen, mixed, pigments of joy, happy moments, smiles and laughter.... And which will you choose? For 'Life' is choice. — John McLeod

In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. — Kahlil Gibran

Joy and laughter quote Enjoy life now. This is not a rehearsal.
Enjoy life now. This is not a rehearsal.

I will follow the upward road today; I will keep my face to the light. I will think high thoughts as I go my way; I will do what I know is right. I will look for the flowers by the side of the road; I will laugh and love and be strong. I will try to lighten another's load this day as I fare along. — Mary Susanne Edgar

All I do is have fun. When I'm not working, it's about making people laugh. I love making jokes about things. Even when someone's mad at me, I'll deflect anger with humor. My days are filled with laughter. If I'm not laughing, I'm not happy. — Drew Fuller

Here's hoping that your special day Will be more 'happy ever after' With all the joys of friendship, Love, fun and laughter — John Walter Bratton

Fun And Joy Quotes

There is nothing more marvelous than doing something you love to do and getting paid for it. It ceases to become work, money, and effort; and it becomes fun, your expression of the joy of life. — Stuart Wilde

Life is a combination. Of two things, of happiness and sorrow, of good and bad, of pain and joy. Even if it is a gift for some people. And trouble for some. But it is. And that makes it fun and memorable. — Vishesh Panthi

I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy. — Doris Day

Joy and laughter quote There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.

Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went. — Jonathan Sacks

Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day. — Bruce Mau

With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis. — C. S. Lewis

Joy and laughter quote Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever.
Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever.

The fun, joy, and humor dry up in a relationship when one of the partners is swimming in gin. To my way of thinking, it is selfishness personified to see life through the bottom of a liquor bottle. — Ginger Rogers

This is my wish for you: peace of mind, prosperity through the year, happiness that multiplies, health for you and yours, fun around every corner, energy to chase your dreams, joy to fill your holidays! — David Dellinger

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction. — Kevyn Aucoin

Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked squash, the bobwhite's call, and a young girl's giggle, has a sense of humor. Make no mistake about that. — Catherine Marshall

Laughter And Work Quotes

Clear communication. Respect. A lot of laughter. And a lot of orgasms. That's what makes a marriage work. — Dr. Dre

God places us in the world as his fellow workers-agents of transfiguration. We work with God so that injustice is transfigured into justice, so there will be more compassion and caring, that there will be more laughter and joy, that there will be more togetherness in God's world. — Desmond Tutu

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

Joy and laughter quote Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stilln
Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

Laughter is the greatest music in the world and audiences come to my shows to escape the cares of life. They don't want to be embarrassed or insulted. They want to laugh and so do I - which is probably why it works. — Ken Dodd

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

Chaplin and Keaton are still the best. They know that there is nothing more serious than laughter, an art demanding infinite work, and that as long as the world revolves, making others laugh is the most splendid of activities. — Eduardo Galeano

Joy and laughter quote Determine to live life with flair and laughter.
Determine to live life with flair and laughter.

True life lies in laughter, love and work. — Elbert Hubbard

I'm totally aware of how lucky I am. I have health, family, children. I do work that gives me total joy and allows me to make a living, and maybe, if I'm lucky enough, I'll feel I've fulfilled a little bit of service to society because I brought other people some laughter. — Martin Short

We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly. — Matthew Fox

Feelings aroused by the touch of someones hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well. — Bernie Siegel

Happiness And Laughter Quotes

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. — Red Skelton

Joy and laughter quote Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment. — Goswami Kriyananda

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. — John Ray

When ypu awaken love and laughter in your life, your mind lets go of fear and anxiety, and your happy spirit becomes the healing balm that transforms every aspect of your human experience. — Jesse Dylan

Joy and laughter quote The best thing in life are free.
The best thing in life are free.

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 and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it. — Eben Alexander

It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss. — Henry Miller

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

Love And Laughter Quotes

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

The best things in life are free. And it is important never to lose sight of that. So look around you. Wherever you see friendship, loyalty, laughter, and love...there is your treasure. — Neale Donald Walsch

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments. - Chris Rock

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments. — Chris Rock

Joy and laughter quote A day without laughter is a day wasted
A day without laughter is a day wasted

From here on after let's stay the way we are right now. And share all the love and laughter that a lifetime will allow. — George Strait

We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams. — Albert Einstein

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. — Nicole Krauss

Joy and laughter quote Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.
Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up! — Hafez

You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh. — Jay Leno

Togetherness, passion, laughter, faith, trust, and jealousy are the essential ingredients of love — Shahrukh Khan

Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of the earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid to love, I who love love? — Eugene O'Neill

Laughter And Smiles Quotes

Life does not come with instructions on how to live, but it does come with trees, sunsets, smiles and laughter, so enjoy your day. — Debbie Shapiro

I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh. - Maya Angelou

I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh. — Maya Angelou

Within each of us there is an intense need to feel that we belong. This feeling of unity and togetherness comes through the warmth of a smile, a handshake, or a hug, through laughter and unspoken demonstrations of love. It comes in the quiet, reverent moments of soft conversation and in listening. — William R. Bradford

smile, It increases your face value — Robert Harling

I live to make you smile. And there’s nothing I’d rather do. — Markiplier

All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile. — Chris Hart

A wise person laughs and smiles through the eyes. . . . The smile and laughter through the eyes influence people tremendously. No energy leaks if you smile through the eyes. — Sivananda

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. — Victor Borge

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter. — P. T. Barnum

I love people who make me laugh! — Audrey Hepburn

Laughs And Smiles Quotes

Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile. — Mark Twain

Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding your self that everything happens for a reason. — John Mayer

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy. — Charlie Chaplin

After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again, And touching all the darksome woods with light, Smiles on the fields until they laugh and sing, Then like a ruby from the horizon's ring, Drops down into the night. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Creating content to make people smile and laugh, that's what makes me happy. — Logan Paul

A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, smile often, dream big, laugh a lot and realize how blessed you are for what you have. — Zig Ziglar

I want you to be happy...to laugh, smile and rejoice in order that others may be made happy by you. — Abdu'l-Bahá

Everyone smiles in the same language. — George Carlin

No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank concrete basement while somebody took pictures, well, any other situation would be a piece of cake — Chuck Palahniuk

My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning. — Gena Lee Nolin

Humor And Laughter Quotes

Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor. — Karl Barth

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant. — Washington Irving

I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor. — Katie Price

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing. — William James

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. — Joseph Addison

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. — Bill Cosby

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. — Hugh Sidey

Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy. You can’t laugh and be angry, you can’t laugh and feel sad, you can’t laugh and feel envious. — Bel Kaufman

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. — Erma Bombeck

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour. — Charles Dickens

Friends And Laughter Quotes

Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone. — Vincent Van Gogh

The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days. — Sue Monk Kidd

Every child deserves a chance at a life filled with love, laughter, friends and family. — Marlo Thomas

I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep. — Gregory David Roberts

People will laugh at me, but when they ask me to make a wish for the next life, I will say I want the same parents, same brother and sister, same wife, same friends. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband. — Elsa Maxwell

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends. — Hilaire Belloc

To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness, laughter and joy abound, when friends, family, and lovers are around. — Amy Davis

Smile And Laughter Quotes

There aren't many things as therapeutic as smiles and laughter. Whenever you look at things in a lighter vein, it shows that your heart is in the right place. — Douglas Pagels

There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance. — Solomon

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

Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. — John Milton

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude. And I would not have the tears that sadness makes to flow from my every part turn into laughter. I would that my life remain a tear and a smile. — Kahlil Gibran

Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. — James M. Beggs

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either. — Henry Ward Beecher

The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. — Carl Sagan

We are a blessed people and, with God s guidance, our smiles might even become laughter in the not too distant future. — John Kufuor

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More Joy And Laughter Quotes

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations. — Patrick Pearse

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations. — Patrick Henry Pearse

There are days when we can bring before God...laughter of joy and gratitude. There will be other days when we can only muster a bitter, angry complaint. Be confident that God will accept whatever we lift up before him, and he will make it serve his purpose and our good. — Gardner C. Taylor

If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy is one of nature's greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal. — Catherine Ponder

Some will learn through pain and sorrow, others through joy and laughter, so it is written. — Moroccan Proverbs

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that. — Ellen DeGeneres

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. — Kenny Ausubel

Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil. — Reginald Heber

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own. — Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water. — Albert Schweitzer

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. — Kahlil Gibran

From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations — Hippocrates

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

It takes as little as 1% of a population to create positive change, and I believe that if 100 million people underwent a personal transformation in the direction of peace, harmony, laughter, love, kindness, and joy...the world would be transformed. — Deepak Chopra

No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds. — Red Skelton

Release the joy that is inside of another, and you release the joy that is inside of you. — Neale Donald Walsch

I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter. — Yakov Smirnoff

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live. — Bertrand Russell

When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters. — Dalai Lama

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living. — Eileen Caddy

You may think life is sweet now, but when death is a heartbeat away then life becomes unbearably desirable. And when you survive, everything you do will be enhanced and filled with greater joy: the sunlight, the breeze, a good wine, a woman's lips, a child's laughter. — David Gemmell

It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips. — Fred Allen

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for. — Jim Butcher

Anger kills both laughter and joy; What greater foe is there than anger? — Thiruvalluvar

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand. — Oprah Winfrey

Sorrow is better than laughter; for, by the sadness of the countenance, the heart is made better. — Solomon

Without kindness there can be no true joy. — Thomas Carlyle

May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility. — Mary Anne Radmacher

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