When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don't have to be crying; sometimes it's the opposite. You laugh when you're the most upset.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying or getting overly angry or to maintain control.
One day you are happy and laughing and the next you are crying.
If I'm laughing, you know I'm either very happy or very sad. I cope with things with jokes.
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
I honestly believe life is a combination of laughter and tears, and it's almost always better to laugh than to cry.
I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.
Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
It is better to laugh than cry.
If I laugh a couple of times a day, I'm doing good. People think it's their God-given right to be happy, and it's just not. It's something you've got to work at. I like to paint the human condition, and the human condition is not smiles and happy people.
We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.