#joy

Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#dive #enjoyed #exhilarating #going #high

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. ↗

— Karl Barth

#gratitude #joy #simplest

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven. ↗

— Mark Twain

#humor #joy #secret #sorrow #source

I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian for its part in everything-but the moment you enjoy what you're doing, you try to express yourself, to find your way, and every time is different, of course. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#course #different #doing #enjoy #every

She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been laundering, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grandchildren, over thirty years. At the end of it she was still singing. ↗

— George Orwell

#joy #motherhood #singing #beauty

For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success. ↗

— Shania Twain

#good #i #non-stop #really #success

We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience. ↗

— Michael Bay

#audience #critics #dark #done #four

I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#any #bad #feel #guess #guilty

To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing. ↗

— Martha Beck

#adding #appealing #becomes #joyful #keep

James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#analyzer #bring #could #i #i am