Balance Quote by Bob Peterson

“There was no more meaningless phrase in all of language than "Cheer up!" The only way to get someone to cheer up was to…

— Koji Suzuki

It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical

— Haruki Murakami

Even in times of great sadness, there are always moments where we crack up.

— Selenis Leyva

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

— Richard Carlson

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

— Jim Gaffigan

Stand up comedy is an odd way to make a living, one that is regularly tinged with both triumph and despair.

— Paul Sinha

Life gets so ridiculous, you just have to brush it off like sand and laugh. I think the laughter is good medicine for crap-itis.

— Ace Antonio Hall

When I'm sad, I let myself be sad, but at the same time, I've been finding ways to pick myself back up.

— Jessica Long

The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings, with real…

— Jane Hirshfield

“Studies show that in a phenomenon called “emotional contagion,” we unconsciously catch emotions from other people—whether good moods or bad ones. Taking the time…

— Gretchen Rubin

Sometimes the best cure for life’s woes is a sense of humor.

— Frank K. Sonnenberg

I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked.

— Jane Horrocks