#laught

Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing. My soul probably looks like Fred Astaire. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#fred-astaire #humor #laughter #soul #sound

You might as well laugh at yourself, everyone else is. ↗

— B.J. Neblett

#irony #laughter #sarcasm #satirical #humor

I want to laugh hysterically into a bucket of water, have my humor imprinted on each water molecule and then drink the funniest drink ever. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#water #humor

Mama, don't take him. We need him,' Jack whispered. 'Please. He will not forget you if you let him stay with us. He will love you for ever and every time he laughs, he will remember how you once laughed... ↗

— Isobelle Carmody

#love #love

Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me. ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#love #love

A thousand laughing suns are in your eyes. A thousand crying stars in mine. ↗

— Ahmad Shamlou

#love #sadness #tears #love

I realized that the good stories were affecting the organs of my body in various ways, and the really good ones were stimulating more than one organ. An effective story grabs your gut, tightens your throat, makes your heart race and your lungs pump, brings tears to your eyes or an explosion of laughter to your lips. ↗

— Christopher Vogler

#inspiration #laughter #senses #story #writing

A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#faith #freedom #laughter #mysticism #religion

If there is no laughter, Jesus has gone somewhere else. If there is no joy and freedom, it is not a church: it is simply a crowd of melancholy people basking in a religious neurosis. If there is no celebration, there is no real worship. ↗

— Steve Brown

#joy #laughter #religion #worship #freedom

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#consequently #correct #find #humiliate #intention