Humor Creates Distance From Tragedy

A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher

We laugh to survive.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective:
an awareness that some things are really important, others not;
and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
- Christopher Morley

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- e. e. cummings

The burden of the self is lightened when I laugh at myself.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Laugh as much as possible, always laugh.
It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.
- Maya Angelou

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties
and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder

Humor Creates Distance From Tragedy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: The Need for Humor

Be as a Child

Not Too Serious

Cherish the Whimsey