You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

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.

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

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.