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.
– Allen Klein
Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.
– Allen Klein
You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.
– Allen Klein
While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.
– Allen Klein
Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.
– Allen Klein
When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.
– Allen Klein
When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.
– Allen Klein
When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.
– Allen Klein
Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.
– Allen Klein
Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
– Allen Klein
Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.
– Allen Klein
Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.
– Allen Klein
No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.
– Allen Klein
Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.
– Allen Klein
It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.
– Allen Klein
In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets you may not find something to laugh about immediately.
– Allen Klein
Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.
– Allen Klein
Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.
– Allen Klein
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.
– Allen Klein
Humor can be one of our best survival tools.
– Allen Klein
Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
– Allen Klein
Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.
– Allen Klein
And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.
– Allen Klein
Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.
– Allen Klein
A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.