Quotes About Lightheartedness

Having kids reminds you not to take things too seriously.

Who says a lighthearted approach to business is incompatible with success?

Take it with a grin of salt.

If you have fun, fine. It's not all life and death.

I feel it's important to show different sides of my character, and I never take myself too seriously.

Everybody's got a silly side in them.

When you take things too seriously, you get old. You have to be silly. Whenever people say, 'Hey, man, are you ever going to grow up?' That's when you know you're doing things right.

I'm not always a heartbroken guy. I like to laugh, act silly, dance. There are so many more colors to me. I really can be fun.

When I'm joking around, I'll say I'm a pop star, because it's silly.

I love to be silly as often as possible. I try to maintain a level of that in all that I do.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

Funny is an attitude.

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest ' humor is the only thing that is dead.

My own inclination is to skew towards humor. They say that some people view life as a comedy, others as a tragedy. Me? Comedy all the way.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

And much later, long after Bastian had returned to his world, in his maturity and even in his old age, this joy never left him entirely. Even in the hardest moments of his life he preserved a lightheartedness that made him smile and that comforted others.

Christopher said to himself that only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.

I'm amused by a lot of things. I love humor. I'm constantly joking around.

I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian!

The woman looked up at Lift. "He's right about that, um..." "Say it," Lift said. "Your Pancakefulness." "Rolls right off the tongue, doesn't it?

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

But all seriousness aside

I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.

I'm a guy who has more slapstick than Joe Cool moments in his day, so I'm not taking myself so seriously.