“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.” ― Herman Melville

In the twinkling of December’s Eves, happy miracles in the offing, we search our archive for answers to the question: If the laws of karma have us do it again, how would we face the morning after?

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

— Victor Hugo

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

— Edward de Bono

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.

— Yiddish proverb

If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane.

— Robert Frost

The highest state is laughter.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The earth laughs in flowers.

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.

— Donna Tartt

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

— Sri Aurobindo

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.

— George Bernard Shaw

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.

― Andrea Levy

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

― Jean Houston

This is our toast to you, who, come what may, celebrate the art of laughter in the everyday.

Laughter is wine for the soul – laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness – the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

— Seán O’Casey