Laughter

The face of the wise man
is not somber or austere but precisely the opposite: radiant and serene, and filled with a vast delight, which often makes him the most playful of men…. According to our holy teacher Moses, the goal of wisdom is laughter and play – not the kind that one sees in little children who do not yet have the faculty of reason, but the kind that is developed in those who have grown mature through both time and understanding.  If someone has experienced the wisdom that can only be heard from oneself, learned from oneself, and created from oneself, he does not merely participate in laughter: he becomes laughter itself. 
                                                      Philo

“Life is a divine comedy,
and until we discover how those two words go together, we will be condemned to spiritual depression and severity, signs that we have not yet found God and that we are layers and eons away
from our original self.  In the mystical land before our birth,
heartfelt laughter is the signal that God is present.”

                                                    Thomas Moore

“So if you want to have God nearby, try laughing. 
Humans and apes are the only creatures who can laugh,
which may tell us more about our status with the Creator
than any other trait we possess.”                                                       

                                                                         WWenn

Being cheerful keeps you healthy. 
It is slow death to be gloomy all the time.

                                                                          Proverbs 17:22


“A few writers have pictured Jesus as a comic, a significant sign of his divinity.  … A person who believes too earnestly in his own convictions can be dangerous to others, for absence of humor signals a failure in basic humanity.  The laughter of the holy sage is the beginning of wisdom, and wisdom, Sophia, is deep trust joined with knowledge.”
                                                        Thomas Moore

“The most lost day of all
              is the day on which we do not laugh.”                      Nicolas Chamfort

“A jest, a laughing word, often decides the highest matters better than sharpness and seriousness.”                                                                                  Horace