Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
One of the most beautiful things in the world I've ever seen or heard is people laughing, even when there seems to be so little reason for them to laugh.
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
Laughter is really a gift. It's the most vulnerable state you can be in.
Laughter is God's blessing.
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
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.