Confidence Quote by Democritus

“I believe that the ability to laugh at oneself is fundamental to the resiliency of the human spirit.”

— Jill Conner Browne

The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Laughter is our…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

A buddha laughs too, but his laughter has the quality of a smile. His laughter has the feminine quality of grace. When an ignorant…

— Rajneesh

Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others,…

— Thomas Hobbes

What people will - or will not - laugh at is mainly determined by their social conditioning.

— Steve Allen

To be intuitive, we must cultivate our sense of humor and look for reasons to laugh everywhere. We become so self-absorbed and serious when…

— Sonia Choquette

“Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer. Laughter must be heard in the outer courts of…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease.…

— Rajneesh

A character, their ability or inability to laugh at themselves should always be a very, very conscious choice. It's a very big key to…

— Grant Bowler

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

— Michel de Montaigne

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness…

— Agnes Repplier