Laughter is a wonderful way to release stagnant and heavy negative energy. We have collected funny and inspirational quotes just for you. No matter what you've been feeling lately, these wacky quotes will make you laugh and can inspire your life in a positive way.
1. Jack London for inspiration
“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a stick.” -Jack London
Sometimes you have to chase the inspiration with all your adrenaline, animal hunting skills and beat it into submission. Being inspired isn't always as quick or easy as we'd like. Sometimes we have to force ourselves to do it. If that's what it takes, that's fine.
2. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach claims to be like clockwork
“Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. After a few years, he can boast a long series of successes”. –Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Just like a clock, it can keep ticking day after day, and many years down the line you'll have a handful of things to remember and be proud of. The trick is to keep moving forward, however slow it may seem. You're getting there no matter how slow you dial.
3. Sam Levenson on the mistakes they make
“You must learn from the mistakes of others. You may not live long enough to make them all yourself. -Sam Levenson
Hey, can you imagine? Learning from our own mistakes is usually quite difficult, if we had to make every mistake to learn every lesson, it would be exhausting! Observe and learn from those around you and you will gain wisdom.
4. Vaclav Havel on laughing at himself
“Those who take themselves too seriously are always in danger of making a fool of themselves; Anyone who can constantly laugh at themselves doesn't." –Vaclav Havel
If you always want to be taken seriously, then bumps in the road or minor embarrassments can make you feel like a fool. However, if you're a person who laughs at yourself when you're in a good mood, life's wacky moments will just make you laugh even harder, and your pride will still be intact.
5. Dolly Parton diz Devore Devore
"A peacock resting on its feathers is just another turkey." –Dolly Parton
You are a valuable person with valuable gifts within you. There is no use sitting on all of them like a peacock resting on its feathers. Don't be a turkey, show your feathers and show off! Just do it with your clothes when you're out in public, okay?
6. Frank Zappa en Make Up and Minds
"Don't worry about your makeup, you better make up your mind." –Frank Zappa
When you have some decisions to make, stop worrying about your makeup and make up your mind! Figure out your life instead of taking care of your makeup, which is just a mask anyway. But if you have nothing to decide right now, then take care of your makeup like the wonderful, magnificent and expert that you are!
7. Sydney Harris wants to know how you know
“When I hear someone sigh, 'Life is hard,' I'm always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'” – Sydney Harris
Since we don't remember where we came from, and this world is all we know, how can you think that life is difficult if you don't have anything to compare it to? Let that thought give you some perspective. If you're open to it, it can help you manage your life in a more graceful way.
8. Lily Tomlin says she knows who you want to be.
"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize that I should have been more specific." –Lily Tomlin
Be careful what you wish for, okay? Wanting to be someone is great, but without a clear vision of where you want to go, you never know what you're going to get. If you're not specific about the kind of person you want to be, the world will make you the person it wants to be.
9. Marie Osmond knows the power of laughter
"If you can look back and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now." – Mary Osmond
The next time you think you're going to laugh at something you're going through, why not laugh now? If you think it will be funny for you later, use that humor to help you get over the awkward situation you might be in right now. You see?
10. Roger Staubach says the way is clear
"No traffic jams along the extra mile." –Roger Staubach
Going the extra mile means you usually don't have a lot of competition, because the average person doesn't go the extra mile. In a world filled with mind-numbing food, activities, and entertainment, giving a little more is reserved for those with the desire and work ethic to do so.
11. Bill Watterson a Nada
"There is never enough time to do everything you want." –Bill Watterson
It's nice to do nothing in a busy and chaotic world. Waking up when we want, doing what we want and being absolutely lazy is probably something we don't have time for and thank goodness for that! Humanity would become extinct in a short period of time if that were the case.
12. Alice Roosevelt Longworth lo mantiene simple
“I have a simple philosophy: fill the void. Empty what is full. Itching where scratching. –Alice Roosevelt Longworth
If something is missing, find something to replace it. If something overflows you, drop and drop the things that no longer serve you. And please, when you itch, scratch. No matter where you are. However, you may want to excuse yourself and go to the bathroom if your itching is in the nether regions.
13. Voltaire and life boots
"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats." -voltaire
Life is meant to be a big, fat, crazy, insane, challenging, scary wreck that threatens to bring us down. However, Voltaire's advice on singing is correct. When life gets you down, he hops into any nearby lifeboat and sings the praises of being alive.
14. Richard Bach on his life's mission
"Here is a test to know if your mission on earth is over: if you are alive, you are not." -Richard Bach
nuff said. As long as you breathe into you, there are things you are here to learn, share, and achieve. So take a deep breath, stretch your lazy bones, get up and get to work. Your life purpose may be grand or seem simple, but it is still valuable.
15. Cassandra Duffy is recruiting ninja princesses
"I'll probably never fully become what I wanted to be when I grew up, but that's probably because I wanted to be a ninja princess." – Cassandra Duffy
I guess it's a sad reality of our world that we often don't become who we wanted to be when we were little. Many of us dream of things that were not even of this world. Alright, we're all doing our best, and maybe in the next life we'll all be ninja princes and princesses.
16. Yogi Berra tells you to keep your eyes on the road
"If you don't know where you're going, you could end up somewhere else." – Yogi Berra
The river of life carries you whether you are paddling or not. If you don't create a destination for yourself, you could end up somewhere that's worth far less of your time and attention. The river can go with you, but you can adjust your sails with the wind.
17. Dale Carnegie on worry
"Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday." -Dale Carnegie
We like to take this as a lesson in staying in the moment. You really only have this day and worrying about tomorrow is a waste of time. Staying in the moment empowers you with clarity, awareness, and connection to other people and what you are doing. Stop worrying for God's sake!
18. Elbert Hubbard says the ship is sinking
“Don't take life too seriously. You will never get out of this alive." - Elbert Hubbard
None of us will make it out alive! We can joke and joke and laugh as much as we can while we're here. Creating love, joy, and peace within ourselves and each other is actually a more worthwhile goal than being serious all the time, don't you think?
19. Theodore Roosevelt on personal responsibility
"If you could kick the person responsible for most of your problems, you wouldn't sit down for a month." -Theodore Roosevelt
Our choices lead to our own personal problems. It can be easy to want to blame others with whom we are involved, but the fact is that we create our own reality with the decisions we make. So have a good conversation and try to make better decisions.
20. Don McArt in Dogs and Tricks
“An old dog can learn new tricks. If your enthusiasm has lost its vitality, do what you can to revive it. –Don MacArt
Old dogs are sometimes lethargic and half-hearted. While they are alive, there is still breath within them and they also find vitality. If you are such a dog, find ways to generate as much inspiration within yourself as you can. As long as you live, there is life worth living.
21. Og Mandino says to strengthen your immune system
“Do not listen to those who cry and complain, because their disease is contagious” – Og Mandino
Have you ever noticed that your coworker or brother is always complaining about life? It is like a cloud that you enter when you are in his presence. Be very careful who you spend your time with, because you can get the disease of cancer from the tort, and at the very least, the tort.
22. Elbert Hubbardon Getting What You're Worth
"A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them." –Elbert Hubbard
It is a reality of our world that we use our brains and hands to work and we get paid for the work we do. It would be great if we could all sit back and get paid to have brains and hands and nothing else, but that's not some slacker's utopia.
23. Albert Einstein knows the immensity of stupidity
“The difference between genius and stupidity is; Genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
Coming from a genius, Albert knows that genius reaches its limits depending on the resources or brain capacity available. However, the options for stupidity are endless and quite disturbing actually. Good thing we have geniuses who clean up stupid messes!
24. Mark Twain says what a tangled web we weave
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." -Mark Twain
Liars need to keep track of all the lies they've told in order for things to make sense. Remembering facts is much easier when you have experienced something rather than making up a story in your head. Lies get very, very complicated.
25. Napoleon Bonaparte says let him hang himself
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte
Is it bad karma if you don't interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake? Maybe if he's about to walk in front of a bus and you don't save him, but if someone constantly harasses him, as long as you're not being mean, you don't have to go out of your way to do favors. . .
26. Franklin P. Jones in Fire and Ice
"It's a strange world of language where skating on thin ice can land you in hot water." –Franklin P. Jones
This is an interesting mix of two sentences. It's quite true, however, people say that with your behavioral choices you're skating on thin ice, and when you do and the ice breaks, you're in hot water. So what is it folks, can we have one or the other?
27. Jeph Jacques Quer's Monster Trucks
"There are two ways to get through an obstacle: jumping or clearing the way... There has to be a monster truck option." -Jeph Jacques
It is often impossible to bypass our obstacles and problems, avoiding them altogether. Traversing them is a much better option, although it can be extremely tiring. With a monster truck option, we could face life's challenges fully bundled up and protected. That is our vote.
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