Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
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In A Students Guided to Liberal Learning James V. Schall writes, “Aristotle said that , because both depend on seeing relations, the ability to laugh is very close to metaphysics.” Thus, he recommends the following three books of humor;
1) The Wodehouse Clergy (P.G. Wodehouse)
2) My Life and Hard Times (James Thurber)
3) The Pocket Book of Ogden Nash (Ogden Nash)
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Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
~ Norman Cousins
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
~ E. E. Cumming
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.
-Cullen Hightower
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
~ E. E. Cummings