Laughter Lights The Way March 5, 2014
Posted by nrhatch in Happiness, Humor, Mindfulness.trackback
Whenever possible, be funny:
Wine improves with age.
Age improves with wine.
Life improves with laughter.
If you can’t be funny, be fresh:
Rather than allowing our thoughts, emotions, and past experiences to dictate our re-actions to new events, we can view life with alert curiosity.
If you can’t be fresh, be relevant:
Through training our minds, with constant effort, we can change our mental perceptions and attitudes. This can make a real difference in our lives. ~ The Dalai Lama
If you can’t be relevant . . . it’s never too late to shut up.
Aah . . . that’s better!
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Spirit Lights The Way 
One good thing leads to another, huh?
Here’s to being Funny, Fresh, Relevant . . . or Quiet! 😀
I’m a great fan of laughter, and a glass of wine is not a bad second!
Here’s to the light-hearted moments in life!
“It’s never too late to shut up.”
I should hire an imp to stand on my shoulder and whisper that to me at relevant times, which is almost any time I’m talking.
😉
There are times when my tongue starts wagging before my brain is fully in gear. 😀
Hahaha “If you can’t be relevant . . . it’s never too late to shut up.” – what else is there to say? 😆
That’s definitely one for me to keep in my “tool box.” 😀
Haha, I know a few people who could follow your last piece of advice! And they don’t…
When I’m super tired, the shut off valve doesn’t work ~> I start talking and I can’t shut up.
Haha, that’s bad! I think the same goes with drunk people.
Yes! Definite parallels to being tipsy and just beyond reach of the MUTE button. 😀
I love that last one! Relevance! Good goal in any conversation. 🙂 And maybe we can stay relevant with alert curiosity. I like to think that curiosity can make us ageless–I keep thinking that anyway. LOL!
I’m a decent listener but I look for relevance in comments which is often lacking in whole or part.
Someone starts out with a relevant and interesting tale. Then gets sidetracked by a digression that becomes the new topic of conversation until . . . no! another digression takes them farther and farther down the rabbit hole.
I attempt to steer them back once or twice. After than I start to tune them out and let them wander through their mind brambles at will.
I love the The Dalai Lama quote. The mind itself is very susceptible to suggestion and will believe anything you tell it to believe (good or bad) so that training is a great way to change things :D.
Yes! It’s much better to tell ourselves that we are competent and capable (and relevant) than incompetent and incapable (and irrelevant). We’ll get better results. 😉
That was a nice morning dose of lightness. Thank you!
Thanks for stopping by, Val. Hope your whole day is filled with light.
“Wine improves with age.
Age improves with wine.
Life improves with laughter”
Like it! I must remember this 🙂
Hi PiP! Long time so see! Quotes on laughter make me smile and fill me with positive energy.
My fave: “We do not laugh because we are happy. We are happy because we laugh.”
Another: “A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
Laughing changes our energy, it changes our day. I love laughing!
We had a mini reunion today ~ 11 of us. The laughing bits were the best bits!