Have you perpetrated frivolity within the last 24 hours? Have you taken the most enjoyable path to reach your top priority goals? Have you forgotten to put "take time to laugh" on your daily work list? Have you been over-doing, getting lots done, but enjoying it less, and becoming less healthy?

"If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove," says Timothy Leary. Well, I DO like what I'm doing. I just prefer to laugh more while I'm doing it. I have decided to become a more avid practitioner of laughter. To get out of the groove of taking myself, life and work too seriously, I invite you to join me in exploring the laughter groove. Below are some quotes I have collected...enjoy!

Quotes

•Resolve to thrive this year, not simply survive. Think how much more you will accomplish, even on your own, if you have a habit of laughter. Consider how your clients and customers will relate to you. You know that’s crucial to your financial bottom line. The happier, more cheery and lighthearted you are, even just if you work alone, the more you’ll produce and the more successful you will be... --Ann Fry is dean of Humor University (Quote taken from Austin Business Journal January 2-8, 2004, page 27 Resolve to thrive this year, not simply survive).

•STRESSED is just DESSERTS spelled backward. From: http://jokes-humor.itgo.com/christmas/holiday-diet.html

• Q. What is a Mummy’s favorite type of music? A. Wrap!!!!!
•Q. Why did the Vampire read the Wall Street Journal? Q. He heard it had great circulation.
•Q. What tops off a ghost's ice cream sundae? A. Whipped scream.
•Q. How can you tell a vampire likes baseball? A. Every night he turns into a bat.
•Q. What's it like to be kissed by a vampire? A. It's a pain in the neck.

•“You can tell a lot about a man by the way he treats the person who can do nothing for him.”   --Unknown

•A Chinese proverb says, “Life just gives you time and space; it’s up to you to fill it.”

•Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.  --George Carlin 

•“Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.”
 --Pope John XXIII 

•“From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend on reading it.”
 --Groucho Marx 

•"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."     --Allen Klein 

•“Anger is only one letter short of danger.”   --Unknown (Submitted by Ron Sasse) 

•Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.  W.H. Auden (1907-1973) American poet 

•“You can’t wait on life. If you do, you’re living some life that’s ‘gonna happen’ instead of the one that’s happening right now.” --Ann Richards (The Book of Texas Wisdom)

•“Laughter heals, gives solace, and is life enhancing.” --Liz Carpenter’s book Start With A Laugh

•"There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor each and every day. You’ve got to have a dream. What takes talent and ability is finding opportunities in change. Have no regrets." --Dan Clark, Excerpted from: Chicken Soup for the College Soul

•“Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?” --Phyllis Diller

•"Considering all of the funny business being investigated at the state Capitol, wouldn’t it be simpler to let corporations donate money directly to House members in exchange for making them wear advertising patches on their suits? Hey, it works for NASCAR, so why wouldn’t it work at the Statehouse? Some of these guys would be so covered up with logos that they’d have to go buy larger pants.
Considering it is the Texas Legislature, I don’t think you’d see a lot of signs on there that said, 'This space for rent.'" --John Kelso, Sunday, March 14, 2004, Austin American Statesman.

•“People say New Yorkers can’t get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio the other guy took the engine.” --David Letterman

•“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” --Unknown

•We are about as happy as we make up our minds to be. –Abraham Lincoln

• Gandhi was once asked what he thought about western civilization. He replied that he thought it would be a good idea.

•“And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” --Grandma Moses

•“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” --Dr. Seuss

•BUMPER STICKERS:
Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.
A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.
Taken from: http://www.butlerwebs.com/jokes/bumper.htm

•“A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.” --Dwight D. Eisenhower

•“We can do no great things; only small things with great love.” --Mother

•I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific. -Lily Tomlin

•In order for your dreams to come true, you've got to stay awake. - Charles Durning

•Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something
without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong. - Sydney J. Harris

•May you live all the days of your life. - Jonathan Swift

•How is it possible to have a civil war? -- George Carlin

•Confucious says: War doesn't determine who is right, war determines who is left.

•Only in America do we have a General in charge of the post office and a Secretary in charge of defense. http://www.butlerwebs.com/jokes/military.htm

•The little boy wasn't getting good marks in school. One day he made the teacher quite surprised. He tapped her on the shoulder and said ..."I don't want to scare you, but my daddy says if I don't get better grades, somebody is going to get a spanking." Submitted by Sparkegirl http://www.butlerwebs.com/jokes/teachers.htm

•"If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't been in bed with a mosquito." -- Anita Roddick

•"Timing is everything. Bob Hope owns most of Palm Springs because he knows when not to say anything." --Ann Richards (From the Book of Texas Wisdom)

•“The insincerity of man – all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet – his fame is eternal – needs no genius, no talent – mere honesty – Luther, Christ, etc.” --Mark Twain

•"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." --Steven Wright

•"Always love your enemies - nothing annoys them so much." --Oscar Wilde

•“I live by this credo: Have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. Even in your darkest moment, you usually can find something to laugh about if you try hard enough.”   --Red Skelton

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