Quotes About Lightness

Because we were orbiting the earth faster than earth spins on its axis, we went around the earth 16 times a day, an earth day, which meant 16 periods of lightness and 16 periods of darkness in 24 hours. Every so often you'd look towards the earth, and often you could see lightness and darkness together, and dawn and sunset were spectacular.

You said live out loud, and die you said lightly, and over and over again you said be.

So we won't take ourselves too seriously. Because taking something serious doesn't make it go away any faster. In fact, it keeps making it a little bit worse.

I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously. [ Writer's Digest Interview (Robert Jacobs, Writer's Digest , February 1976)]

Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly. MATTHEW 11:28-30 THE MESSAGE

Don't take life so serious, son...it ain't no how permanent. --Porky Pine, June 19-24, 1950

No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.

Eleanor was an extremely determined woman, and Henry an extremely determined man. Like flint and steel, they struck sparks. And yet, even after fourteen years of marriage, sexual fires still burned. There was more lightness than heat in their banter.

A feather on a breeze," Wash said, then frowned. "Something like that, at any rate. There may be a better analogy.

I was floating around up there like a feather, a trick from early childhood that was fading as I got older.

A meal should always lie lightly on the estomac," said Poirot. "It should not be so heavy as to paralyze thought.

She adopted a lighter tone.

'You're Ugly Too' isn't a comedy, but it has a lightness of touch with a hard edge. But it's essentially a warm story tinged with a bit of melancholy in the great Irish tradition. I'm very proud of that film.

Whimsy is the answer to tears.

Writing words is like flying, Rachel thought. Words aren't solid. Words are lighter than air. But even so, they can sometimes give you a lift.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

How odd it is, that the dead weigh more than the living. You would think it would be the opposite, but it isn't. I think it is because souls give bodies lightness and air. When the soul leaves, the body has nothing left and is desperate to return to the earth. That's why it's so heavy.

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She had what the Councillor knew, in the technical language of the ballet, as ballon, a lightness that is not only the negation of weight, but which actually seems to carry upwards and make for flight, and which is rarely found in thin dancers - as if the matter itself had here become lighter than air, so that the more there is of it the better it works.

Sweetness eliminates gravity and thus a man with a heavy burden of life starts feeling like floating in the air before sweetness.

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

People need to make sure they have a good humor spark plug inside them that can be ignited at any moment when required.

You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.

Be a fairy. Dance like a butterfly.