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Quotes About Lightness

What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores and hollows, for the time given.
~ Alice Munro
Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with the sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps their real lightness is best seen by comparing them with the weight of glory which is awaiting us.
~ Arthur W. Pink
Love is a helium-based emotion; Love always takes the high road.
~ Augusten Burroughs
There is helium in his tone of voice, a lightness that means mischief.
~ Augusten Burroughs
You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.
~ Ayn Rand
We didn't really have to take everything so seriously, did we?
~ Ayn Rand
Only if one feels immensely important she had told him, can one feel truly light.
~ Ayn Rand
She had forgotten every problem, person and event behind her; they had always been clouded in her sight, to be hurried past, to be brushed aside, never final, never quite real. This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope. This was the way she had expected to live—she had wanted to spend no hour and take no action that would mean less than this.
~ Ayn Rand
Grounded in awareness of transiency, ambiguity, and contingency, such a person values lightness of touch, flexibility and adaptability, a sense of humor and adventure, appreciation of other viewpoints, a celebration of difference.
~ Stephen Batchelor
The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death, of life, of love - everything disappears.
~ Rajneesh
Our mission is to celebrate the greatness of Creation and connect it again to the Core where it came from and to where it will go, with care, lightness, joy, reverence and love.
~ Leonardo Boff
Up in this high air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and
~ Jojo Moyes
Son,' he says as Fabien turns to leave. 'Let her go. Don't take it all so seriously, eh?
~ Jojo Moyes
Up in this high air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be. • KAREN BLIXEN, Out of Africa
~ Jojo Moyes
Lo apocalíptico exige ser tratado sin excesiva seriedad.
~ Enrique Vila-Matas
I feel like a bird!
~ Erin Hunter
Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
~ Benjamin
There's a lot of levity to 'Offspring' and I just love that the costumes reflect that.
~ Asher Keddie
I have always been more relaxed around comedy.
~ Fred Willard
Humour allows people to exhale a little.
~ Zach Anner
One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness.
~ Gil Fronsdal
He teased things out in me that I didn't know existed: a lightness, a humor, an ease. It was as if he hollowed me out and filled me with feathers.
~ Gillian Flynn
Allow lightness and balance to be your guide.
~ Gregor Maehle
Don't take things too seriously, and just chill.
~ Kailash Kher