 When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it. |
| When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did. |
| Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up. |
| Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart. |
| Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger. |
| Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product. |
| Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years. |
| Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop. |
| The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer. |
| Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing. |
| The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment. |
| When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them. |
| Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss. |
| Research has shown that people who volunteer often live longer. |
| To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself. |
| In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately. |
| Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything. |
| Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along. |
| Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem. |
| Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult of times. |
