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It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body.

Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And that's because laughter completely engages the body and releases the mind. It connects us to others, and that in itself has a healing effect.

Laughing is also good for your respiratory system.

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

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

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

I learned early in life that laughter is a great way to diffuse and uncomfortable situation, so I began to use that as a tool, throughout my life.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

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

The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny.