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Quotes About Lightness

Denuncio nossa fraqueza, denuncio o horror alucinante de morrer - e respondo a toda essa infâmia com - exatamente isto que vai agora ficar escrito - e respondo a toda essa infâmia com alegria. Puríssima e levíssima alegria. A minha única salvação é a alegria.
~ Clarice Lispector
Taking everything easy is very light. Taking everything serious can be very hard. We don't talk too much when we don't feel good with what we are told to do.
~ Unknown
[On an architectural design by Santiago Calatrava:] A city is never more fully human than when expertise—our own or someone else's—allows us access to ebullience, lightness and delight.
~ Unknown
We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.
~ Honore de Balzac
That's what's important these days, isn't it. Everything should be fun and lighthearted.
~ Liane Moriarty
After all, only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them. Seriousness, after all, is only a sign of effort, and effort is a sign of imperfect mastery
~ Lin Yutang
My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light.
~ Linda Hamilton
lightness come upon her, a sense that there was a centre to everything after all.
~ Lisa Jewell
It's very nice to do a little bit of the darkness after a little bit of the lightness. Variety is the spice of life. I enjoy both, and hopefully, I will be able to do as big a variety as I possibly can.
~ Thomas Gibson
People can have a variety of concerns at the same time. Even those undergoing grave or traumatic experiences will acknowledge the need for lightness or even entertainment.
~ Susan Minot
You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.
~ Russell Baker
Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.
~ Russell Baker
Throw the lumber over, man! Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Getta via il ciarpame, amico! Che la tua barchetta sia leggera, e porti soltanto ciò di cui hai bisogno.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
I think that comedy makes everyone feel weightless. The weight of whatever their troubles, or the weight of life, and in that moment, when you're laughing, it's like you're free of earth's gravity.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
I'm very much known as being the smiley girl, and unfortunately, lightness can be mistaken for stupidity or someone with no depth.
~ Kelly Brook
Quel contadino si affida alla medaglia di Sant'Antonio e va leggero Ma ben sola e ben nuda senza miraggio porto la mia anima
~ Unknown
Above all, let's hope we never take ourselves too seriously.
~ Unknown
The lovely thing about real happiness is that it is there all of a sudden, unexpected, weightless as a little summer cloud and just as radiant and intangible.
~ Vicki Baum
El adulto ha optado por no ser adulto del todo, ha abdicado de la reflexión y el juicio y ha preferido seguir siendo joven. Es lo que califica a este mundo light, de pensamiento débil y relaciones líquidas, un mundo posmoderno que rehuye las dificultades y los problemas.
~ Unknown
When your aspiration is to lighten up, you begin to have a sense of humor. Your serious state of mind keeps getting popped. In addition to a sense of humor, a basic support for a joyful mind is curiosity, paying attention, taking an interest in the world around you. Happiness is not required, but being curious without a heavy judgmental attitude helps. If you are judgmental, you can even be curious about that.
~ Pema Chodron
But hadn't she heard that for someone who's made up their mind, everything becomes so much lighter? It made sense, in a way. Like suddenly nothing costs you anything anymore?
~ Peter Orner
She felt loose and free and light in a universe without purpose.
~ Philip Pullman