#joy

I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#am #cinema #enjoy #even #even now

I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#am #avoiding #childbirth #find #finding

Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered. ↗

— Bob Barker

#had #joy #me #much #nothing

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. ↗

— Mark Twain

#everything #heaven #human #itself #joy

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. ↗

— Mark Twain

#divide #full #get #grief #itself

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