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Quotes About Lightness

No se veía como un cuerpo pesado que va dejando un rastro, sino como algo parecido a una partícula liviana sobre la superficie de una tierra demasiado dormida como para notar el rasguño de las patas de las hormigas, el mordisqueo de las mariposas, el revoloteo del polvo.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Monsanto will say "That's all there is to it, take it easy, everything's okay, dont take things too serious, it's bad enough as it is without you going the deep end over imaginary conceptions just like you always said yourself
~ Jack Kerouac
Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.
~ Mark Haddon
It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness.
~ Isamu Noguchi
43. By making Samyama on the relation between the Akasha and the body and becoming light as cotton-wool etc., through meditation on them, the yogi goes through the skies. This Akasha is the material of this body; it is only Akasha in a certain form that has become the body. If the Yogi makes a Sanyama on this Akasha material of his body, it acquires the lightness of Akasha, and he can go anywhere through the air. So in the other case also.
~ Swami Vivekananda
I don't take myself or the species too seriously. You have to laugh at everything.
~ Ardal O'Hanlon
Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.
~ Wislawa Szymborska
That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.
~ King James I
Mozart for me is the No. 1 composer. His music is not just joy or sadness. It's deep emotion with a touch of lightness, which is the most difficult thing to do.
~ Alexandre Desplat
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
~ Langston Hughes
I bear a basket lined with grass; I am so light, I am so fair, That men must wonder as I pass And at the basket that I bear, Where in a newly-drawn green litter Sweet flowers I carry, -- sweets for bitter. Lilies I shew you, lilies none, None in Caesar's gardens blow, -- And a quince in hand, -- not one Is set, because their buds not spring; Spring not, 'cause world is wintering....
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Much of what we acquire in life isn't worth dragging to the next leg of our journey. Travel light. You will be better equipped to travel far.
~ Gina Greenlee
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
~ Glenn Clark
Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
~ G. K. Chesterton
responsibility itself must cohabit with frivolity, this need not be cause for gloom.
~ Jacques Derrida
There's beautiful things about tour - you're seeing the world, spreading music and I'm able to call that what I do. But it's about living lightly and abandoning things.
~ Borns
I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.
~ Christopher Fry
For the first time in years, she felt a sense of belonging, of amazing lightness. She
~ Theresa Weir
What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously.
~ Drew Carey
There is no point in taking yourself too seriously.
~ Ayushmann Khurrana
I've always liked the feeling of traveling light; there is something in me that wants to feel I could leave wherever I am, at any time, without any effort. The idea of being weighed down made me uneasy, as if I lived on the surface of a frozen lake and each new trapping of domestic life - a pot, a chair, a lamp - threatened to be the thing that sent me through the ice.
~ Nicole Krauss
There was no noise, no effort, no consciences in anything he did, but in everything an indescribable lightness, a seeming impossibility of doing nothing else, or doing nothing better, which was so graceful, so natural & agreeable
~ Charles Dickens
Be a rebel against gravity: Skip!
~ Terri Guillemets