In this episode of Optimistic Beacon, Dr. Ray Calabrese explores the most under appreciated tool in the optimist’s toolkit: humor. While toxic individuals often operate with a heavy emotional rigidity, humor acts as a “psychological breathing room” that reframes perspective without denying reality.
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Calm it is quiet
it speaks not laughs not
it is quiet
calm, thinks not
longs not anymore
calm it is quiet
the eye has shut itself
the heart doesn’t beat.
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. ~ Charles Bukowski
Joe: “I got a telemarketing call and the guy was trying to sell me a coffin.”
Pete: “What did you do?”
Joe: “I told him, ‘That’s the last thing I need.'”
Edward Vance Cooke
Here’s a motto, just your fit–
Laugh a little bit.
When you think you’re trouble hit,
Laugh a little bit.
Look misfortune in the face.
Brave the beldam’s rude grimace;
Ten to one ’twill yield its place,
If you have the wit and grit
Just to laugh a little bit.
Keep your face with sunshine lit,
Laugh a little bit.
All the shadows off will flit,
If you have the grit and wit
Just to laugh a little bit.
Cherish this as sacred writ–
Laugh a little bit.
Keep it with you, sample it,
Laugh a little bit.
Little ills will sure betide you,
Fortune may not sit beside you,
Men may mock and fame deride you,
But you’ll mind them not a whit
If you laugh a little bit.
Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joe: “This morning I asked my iPhone, “Siri, why do I have trouble keeping a girlfriend?”
Pete: “How did Siri answer?”
Joe: “She activated my front camera.”
Joe: “I quit my job at the muffler factory.”
Pete: “Why did you quit?”
Joe: “It was too exhaustive.”
Joe: “I’ve got a new job as a maze designer and I love it.”
Pete: What do you love about it?”
Joe: “Not sure, but I get lost in my work.”
