Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William JamesThe transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.
William JamesWhat every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
William James