#laughter

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#flame #isolation #laughter #loss #sacrifice

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#laughter #man #property #tears #than

Laughter can bring a new perspective. ↗

— Christopher Durang

#laughter #new #new perspective #perspective

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. ↗

— George Eliot

#folly #half #hears #laughter #vain

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with. ↗

— John Irving

#console #fact #how #i #in fact

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#because #comedy #critic #dramatic #exacting

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#audience #burst #directed #film #heard

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. ↗

— Stephen King

#comes #deny #down #favorite #laughter

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters. ↗

— Allen Klein

#heaviest #help #laughter #matters #relieve

It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body. ↗

— Allen Klein

#body #clear #directly #every #heart