Live, Laugh, Love

LIVE

LAUGH

LOVE

I keep seeing those words together everywhere. On cards, posters, jewelry. EVERYWHERE. It seems to be a little overused. Yet if you stop and think about things what is more important than to as a human live, laugh, and love?

These three words seem to sum up what could be the healthiest way to live a life.

To Live:
Earlier this year I looked up some incredible quotes on life and I realized that some people can be alive and breathing, but still not live.
"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."-Agatha Christie
"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." -Emily Dickinson
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." -Helen Keller
"We are always getting ready to live but never living." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
These words really hit me in the heart. To be alive and to be living is so much more than walking through the daily motions of eating, breathing, and sleeping. It is doing something with the time and the ability to think, move and breathe. It is using the body and intelligence and talent given to you by God to have an adventure in your years on earth. To live is such and exciting and amazing gift. A gift given only by God.

To Laugh:
I love to laugh. Often I find that I have multiple laughs that depend on how hard I am laughing and where my breathing patterns fall in the pattern of my laughter. For example if I start laughing really hard I will laugh as I inhale air and then I sound like a high pitched hyena. Other times my laugh comes on my release of air and it is loud and lower.
Why is laughter so healthy anyway? People say that it makes one live longer.
" You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it." - Bill Cosby
"A smile starts on the lips, A grin spreads the the eyes, A chuckle comes form the belly; But a good laugh bursts forth form the soul, Overflows, and bubbles all around." - Carolyn Birmingham
"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face." - Victor Hugo
"The most wasted of days is one without laughter." - E. E. Cummings
Can you imagine a life without laughter? I can't Without it how miserable we would be. Laughter comes into your body when true irony, bliss or love has begun to erupt within ones soul,and then it takes over your body in a thrilling and joyful array of sounds, smiles, shaking, stomach aches and tears all at once. To laugh is a miraculous gift.

To Love:
Without love neither laughter or the ability to Live would exists. See without love why would there be any reason to live? Without love where would happiness come form,and without happiness how could laughter even exist?
"I believe that in all things that exist in our world, love is the ultimate and greatest gift.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring." - Oscar Wilde
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey." - Victor Hugo
"We cannot do great things on this earth, only small things with great love." - Mother Teresa
Love is patient, love is kind.It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails." - I Corinthians 13:4-8
"And now these three remain: Faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." - I Corinthians 13:13
Love is the all powerful thing that drives all that we do in life. it is either because of love that we do something or in spite of it. All the same to love is more powerful than not to. I drives us forward into the things we are meant to do. It shows us the people that we are supposed to be.

Anyway just some thoughts on Live, Laugh and Love.