Soap

“What soap is to the body,
laughter is to the soul”

~Yiddish Proverb

While the laughter

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

~Lewis Carroll

I live in my own place

I live in my own place, have never copied nobody even half, and at any master who lacks the grace to laugh at himself - I laugh.

~Inscribed over the door to Nietzsche's house

When Irish eyes

When Irish eyes are smiling,
Tis like a morn in spring.
With a lilt of Irish laughter
You can hear the angels sing
When Irish hearts are happy
All the world is bright and gay
When Irish eyes are smiling
Sure, they steal your heart away.

~an old Irish Blessing

May you always have

May you always have
Walls for the winds,
A roof for the rain,
Tea beside the fire,
Laughter to cheer you,
Those you love near you,
And all your heart might desire!

~an old Irish Blessing

May the lilt

May the lilt of lush laughter lighten ever road,
May the midst of Irish magic shorten every road.
May you taste the sweetest pleasures
that fortune ever bestowed,
And may all your friends remember
all the favors you are owed.

~an old Irish Blessing

Leprechauns

Leprechauns, castles, good luck and laughter
Lullabies, dreams, and love ever after.
Poems and songs with pipes and drums
A thousand welcomes when anyone comes.
That's the Irish for you!

~an old Irish Blessing

When the first baby

When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl.

~James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan

If you can't

If you can't laugh, the days are just too long.

~Lauren Anderson

I burn away

I burn away; laugh; my ashes are alive!
I die a thousand times:
My ashes dance back -
A thousand new faces.

~Rumi

I will persist

I will persist until I succeed.

I was not delivered into this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep.

The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destingy.

I will persist until I suceed.

~Og Mandino

Time

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

~Japanese Proverb

Your joy is

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self same well from which your laughter rises was often times filled with your tears.

~Kahlil Gibran