The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.

There are no language barriers when you are smiling.

When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.