To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.
Humor comes from self-confidence.
Whether it's an innate ability or an acquired way of regarding the world around us, being labeled as funny can only be accepted as a compliment.
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
The thing about a sense of humour is that it's not bestowed on the good. It's just randomly dished out.
Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.
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