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Quotes About Lightness

I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.
~ Junot Diaz
With Stephen, I had become a sour, witless bore. With others, I could be light. Men I cared nothing about called me, and every once in a while, I accepted an invitation. On them my indifference worked like an aphrodisiac, Because I didn't want anything, I felt free an jabbered away spinning out all kinds of silliness that seemed only to augment their desire.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Pure love makes you feel as light as a flower. You won't feel any heaviness or burden. Ego creates the burden.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God.
~ William Bernard Ullathorne
I realized that "being prepared" can sometimes be a euphemism for being scared to let go. How much we carry—whether it is on our bicycle, in our bag, or in our home—is often directly related to how little we trust in life to guide us well, and in others to help us out in a pinch. To this day, I have found that traveling light yields a far richer experience.
~ Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan
There is a gentleness, a lightness, an element of freedom and, in a word, of civilization, that makes this country one of the few countries in the world where, despite everything, you can still breathe freely.
~ Bernard-Henri Levy
Nothing weighed heavily
~ Bernhard Schlink
we're leaving Gilgal with a lighter wardrobe than we wore there. It's high time some of us traded a spirit of heaviness for a garment of praise. Our next stop in the Promised
~ Beth Moore
I don't want to take myself too seriously, thinking that I'm always having to be this cathartic, intense and deep person, because I certainly enjoy silliness.
~ Tig Notaro
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.
~ Ricky Martin
most importantly, the entire body made light and nimble.
~ Stuart Alve Olson
Lightness brings about nimbleness, nimbleness results in movement, and movement results in transformation.
~ Stuart Alve Olson
A strange lightness enveloped her as she drove to her apartment, past the shady village green, the trendy shops and cafés and galleries and tasting rooms. Her favorite spot in town was the White Rabbit Bookstore with a sign over the door----FEED YOUR HEAD.
~ Susan Wiggs
He wore his averageness lightly, almost proudly, like a transparent scholar's gown, underneath which he was nakedly an administrator.
~ Joshua Cohen
birds flew by, As lightly and as free, Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand on the sea. For every rippling, dancing wave, That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace, And held it trembling there.
~ Joshua Slocum
There are far too many people out there who take themselves too seriously.
~ Blink-182
Buoyancy, floating, weightlessness. Freedom. These are the words we use to talk about swimming. Is it a coincidence that this is also the language we use to talk about the lightness of being, the wellness of being, that we strive for in this corporeal world?
~ Bonnie Tsui
We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.
~ bovee christian nestell x
Relax your body, and the rest of you will lighten up.
~ Haruki Murakami
he picked me up in his arms, as if I was as light as a feather, which I am not, unless it was a very heavy feather, maybe from a giant prehistoric dinosaur-type bird...
~ Helen Fielding
I often find in doing tragedy, or doing very serious material, that there's a level of anxiety that builds that often leads to laughter in some cases. In between takes, there can often be a lightness.
~ Michael Stuhlbarg
After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.
~ Ang Lee
The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
~ Arthur Erickson