Laugh. Laugh as much as you can. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Keep doing it even if people are passing you on the street saying, "I can't tell if that person is laughing or crying, but either way they seem crazy, let's walk faster." Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.
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Related If you are thinking whether to cry or laugh, cry. NIKOLA IVANOVSKI You either laugh or you cry. The crying comes later. JAN PINNEY The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I... MARJORIE PAY HINCKLEY ... sometimes in life, you either laugh or you cry. And I prefer to laugh. JIM STOVALL Baby, it's either laugh or cry and crying takes way too much energy. If you can't find humor in the ... SHERRILYN KENYON Laugh and the whole world will laugh with you,
Cry and you will cry alone! MERYY LINAY Those who laugh with you when you laugh are acquaintances, those who cry with you when you cry are c... MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you ... SAM KINISON If what you do gets people to cry, laugh or say 'wow'...you did good. If they do all three, you did ... LORRIN L. LEE friends are the persons who make you laugh when you cry SHANTHIPRIYA We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or ge... GABRIEL BYRNE A mirror can do something better for you which maybe your best friend can’t. Cry and it will cry w... VIKRANT PARSAI No, my young apprentice. You said the exact right thing. Again. I'm just laughing at life." "Wh... P.C. CAST If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if... JOHN CLEESE The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry. MAYA ANGELOU Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling. ELLEN DEGENERES I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts... because its the only thing that'll m... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it ma... PETE SEEGER You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love some... JOHN MAYER You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love some... ROY CROFT Sometimes you had to laugh if only to keep from crying. ROBERT JORDAN It's when you cry just a little, but you laugh in the middle that you've made it. JASON MRAZ Eat till you're full. Play anytime you want. Sleep as much as you like. Cry. Get angry. Laugh. Live.... KAZUYA MINEKURA You laugh at love... but love will make you cry. - Yasu AI YAZAWA There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep fro... BOB NEWHART Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion. JANE AUSTEN If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possi... MAYA ANGELOU ... it looked at me as it passed, smiling in that crazy-happy way that dogs do. And I started laughi... EM BAILEY If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead o... STEPHEN KING As a comedian, I'm forced to have a tough skin. Until people laugh, they are detractors. You wal... TREVOR NOAH I didn't steal her from you, I just made her laugh twice as many times as you made her cry. SAMUEL H. LOWE Sometimes you need a good laugh, and then there are times when you need a good cry. CHRISSIE FIT Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at? UNKNOWN Beware of laugh at and laugh with; the only people who laugh at you are the ones who pretend to laug... VIKRANT PARSAI If you can't laugh at yourself, then who can you laugh at? TIGER WOODS Why cry for someone when you can laugh next to someone else? ANONYMOUS I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much... because it's the only thing ... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? CHUCK PALAHNIUK Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more. HENRY WARD BEECHER What you are about to read are based on true events. It will make you laugh, it will make you cry, a... MELISSA M. FUTRELL Kind reader! take your choice to cry or laugh;
Here Harod lies--but where's his Epitaph?
If s... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? CHUCK PALAHNIUK You may laugh at people for what they do, but never laugh at what they are. VIKRANT PARSAI Fashion is instant. It makes you feel something the second you see it on a body... whether you love ... CHARLI XCX They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room fo... TERRY PRATCHETT If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh abo... MARIE OSMOND You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it. SOURCE UNKNOWN I love playing different characters and I love doing fun things and I love to entertain people, whet... MILA KUNIS It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don... JIMMY CARR If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it ... RUSSELL LYNES If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it ... J. RUSSELL LYNES Love is what makes you want to cry and laugh at the same time. VALERIE ROSE STERRETT Think crazily, even if others laugh at you. Act bravely, even if you are all alone. DILIP BATHIJA People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, ... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it. LEWIS CARROLL Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it. ERMA BOMBECK You will know you are in love when it doesn't matter if you sit in heaven or hell with that special ... SHANNON L. ALDER You can laugh, but I will get the last laugh. ALVIN STARKS It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit ... JOAN ALLEN Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh. CARL REINER If you can laugh at it then you can live with it SOURCE UNKNOWN The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you ca... RUSSELL LYNES The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you c... J. RUSSEL LYNES The only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it. If you ca... J. RUSSELL LYNES It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wr... JOAN ALLEN Oh, Mona, we're all damned fools! Some of us just have more fun with it than others. Loosen up, dear... ARMISTEAD MAUPIN People cry and laugh on silliest, shallowest things MJ CHRISTINE I think laughter is the best medicine. If you can't laugh at yourself, then you can't laugh ... DAVID HASSELHOFF But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do... ALAN MOORE Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry... GLENDA JACKSON If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it. ERMA BOMBECK If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh. P.C. CAST If you're OK with being clumsy, it's funny. But if you are super embarrassed, people are goi... LEO HOWARD When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banan... NORA EPHRON Laugh, and the world will join in; cry and whine, and that same world will tell you to shut the hell... MELISSA SZYMANSKI To me there are three things everyone should do every day. Number one is laugh. Number two is think ... JIM VALVANO Death is not a laughing matter, so laugh while you are alive. VIKRANT PARSAI There are many things evil people can take from you. However, they can never steal your ability to l... SHANNON L. ALDER If a woman laughs when you hurt her, you ought to cry, for you have lost her; if she cries, you may ... MATSHONA DHLIWAYO It was good to laugh. I wanted to laugh and laugh and laugh until I laughed myself into becoming som... BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live. BRANDI SNYDER Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live. MARK TWAIN Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live. MARIA ROBINSON Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live. SWEDISH PROVERB Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live. SHERRILYN KENYON “Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.” ASHISH KUMAR If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. OSCAR WILDE Figure out what makes you laugh, and do more of it. Figure out what makes you cry, and do less of it... MANDY HALE If you can laugh together, you can work together. ROBERT ORBEN If you can laugh together, you can work together ROBERT ORBEN Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you're probably watching the wrong channel. GROUCHO MARX Good friends laugh at you, laugh with you, but never laugh behind your back. SARU SINGHAL When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when... ARTHUR FELLIG You can spill drinks on me, even spit on me. I'll just laugh about it. But If you dare to hurt my fr... EIICHIRō ODA
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It said, ''... ELLEN DEGENERES I feel sorry for the newscasters you know? We can turn it off. But that's their job and they have to... ELLEN DEGENERES "I'm feeling so good. I feel like a million bucks. I'm focused, I'm alert, I'm zippy and top of my g... ELLEN DEGENERES Come on, if you don't win tonight it doesn't mean you're not a good person, it just means you're not... ELLEN DEGENERES You know me. Any excuse to put on a dress. ELLEN DEGENERES "I feel like I have a hangover, without all the happy memories and mystery bruises." ELLEN DEGENERES I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, ... ELLEN DEGENERES Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that... ELLEN DEGENERES Hello?..Oh, hi Tom. Ooh, I've been dying to see that movie...Mmm no, I just opened up some yogurt. I... ELLEN DEGENERES It's definitely a heterosexual feeling, but it's directed at you. ELLEN DEGENERES Yeah [I'm thirty-six], but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old w... ELLEN DEGENERES I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from...... ELLEN DEGENERES Trying to get the talk show, looking back on it, we had to beg a lot of station managers to pick up ... ELLEN DEGENERES The first house I bought was a little Spanish bungalow on Clinton Street in West Hollywood, right be... ELLEN DEGENERES I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave ... ELLEN DEGENERES It's not like I grew up playing pranks on people, and I was not that girl in school. ELLEN DEGENERES I just like observing people - it's something I've done ever since I was a kid, and I got re... ELLEN DEGENERES Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year... ELLEN DEGENERES Anne wrote it for me and directed, so I was stuck with it, ... We always got along. It's almost gros... ELLEN DEGENERES New Orleans is my hometown, and our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone affected. ELLEN DEGENERES I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my... ELLEN DEGENERES In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There w... ELLEN DEGENERES I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new ... ELLEN DEGENERES I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day. ELLEN DEGENERES I've moved about 10 times over the past 15 years. I don't move for the sole purpose of getti... ELLEN DEGENERES The first time probably people really were aware of me, I unfortunately had the title of Showtime... ELLEN DEGENERES Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it’s worse when you see them wearing dark glasses,... ELLEN DEGENERES Procrastination is not the problem. It is the solution. It is the universe's way of saying stop, slo... ELLEN DEGENERES Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen ... ELLEN DEGENERES Our attention span is shot. We've all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these d... ELLEN DEGENERES You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She... ELLEN DEGENERES I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's c... ELLEN DEGENERES I'm grateful for everything. I'm grateful for my health, and I'm so grateful for the lov... ELLEN DEGENERES I say always follow your passion, no matter what, because even if it's not the same financial su... ELLEN DEGENERES There would be nothing to get me to run for president. I don't even understand how anyone would ... ELLEN DEGENERES