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Quotes by Allen Klein

“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.”

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

“We have made demands to Castle Village, and I have had conversations about paying the city expenses, ... Ive been patient in not filing a lawsuit.”

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.

There is always something to chuckle about. Sometimes we see it. Sometimes . . . we dont. Still the world is filled with humor. It is there when we are happy and it is there to cheer us up when we are not.

In every job relationship or life situation there is inevitably some turbulence. Learn to laugh at it. It is part of what you do and who you are

When we can laugh through our tears we are being given a powerful message. Things may be bad but they cannot be all that bad.

Joking about death-or anything else that oppresses us-makes it less frightening.

You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.

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.

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.

Todays business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyones job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

Humor can be one of our best survival tools.

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

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

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.