Laughter The Best Medicine

Laughter the Best Medicine - My son Shiza with a hearty laugh

This article on "laughter, the best medicine" is from the "Lessons from a Baby" series of motivation articles.

There are no words to describe the joy we felt as parents when we first heard the laugh of our first-born son, Shiza. It was as though we had heard someone laugh for the first time. It took on a new meaning.

Like little children we also learnt to laugh. We laughed just because he had laughed. There was nothing funny, really, but we were all laughing. How silly! How liberating!

"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones."

Proverbs 17:22, The Bible.

The best advice I can give you:

Laugh often.
Laugh everyday.
Laugh with all you have.
Laugh with those you love.

Laugher The Best Medicine

Here are some related quotes on laughter that I love:

• "A day without laughter is a day wasted." Charlie Chaplin

• "I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter." Yakov Smirnoff

• "Laughter is the closest distance between two people." Victor Borge

• "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." Marlo Thomas

• "Laughter heals all wounds, and that's one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you're going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing." Kevin Hart

• "Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place." Josh Billings

• "Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters." Allen Klein

• "I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways." Lucille Ball

• "Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it." Bill Cosby

• "Real laughter is spontaneous. Like water from the spring it bubbles forth a creation of mingled action and spontaneity - two magic potions in themselves - the very essence of laughter - the unrestrained emotion within us!" Douglas Fairbanks

• "There is little success where there is little laughter." Andrew Carnegie

If you enjoyed laughter the best medicine, then you may also want to see Motivation advice - "Reaching Out".
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