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Quotes About Lightness

Vaya si lo llevaré, es estupendo... ligero y amplio. Nos hará reír a todos y, con tal de estar cómoda, me tiene sin cuidado ir hecha un desastre.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Soul of Gerontius (Hereafter Soul) I went to sleep; and now I am refresh'd, A strange refreshment: for I feel in me An inexpressive lightness, and a sense Of freedom, as I were at length myself, And ne'er had been before. How still it is! I hear no more the busy beat of time, No, nor my fluttering breath, nor struggling pulse; Nor does one moment differ from the next. I had a dream; yes:—some one softly said He's gone; and then a sigh went round the room.
~ Saint John Henry Newman
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
The heaving sickness past, her nausea gone, her bodily fluids replaced, she felt the lightness of being in the open space around her. Her walls the canyon's walls, she owned them not at all; her floor, the river beach. Her view, the heavens. It was, this freedom she was in, the longed-for cathedral of her dreams.
~ Alice Walker
When his uncle and his guests finished laughing, they'd seemed lighter, clearer; even their activities appeared to be done more gracefully. It was as if the laughing emptied them, and sharing it placed whatever was laughable and unbearable in its proper perspective.
~ Alice Walker
Unhappy times are the best for levity. You don't light candles in the middle of the day, do you?
~ Joe Abercrombie
It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
~ Don Herold
That is the key to navigating this life - don't take it too seriously. That's when the party begins.
~ RuPaul
Life is too serious to be taken seriously.
~ Mike Leonard
In real life, people don't try to live dramatically, people try to live in a light way. People try to laugh.
~ Ginnifer Goodwin
Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.
~ Anthony Powell
You gotta just laugh at yourself and let it go and not take things too seriously because life is too short.
~ Ally Hilfiger
Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Let our people travel light and free on their bicycles—nothing on the back but a shirt, nothing tied to the bike but a slicker, in case of rain. Their
~ Edward Abbey
The ground is always soft for the unburdened
~ Anonymous
Every few minutes a fresh gust of lightness sweeps through Zeno. There was that name, Hillary, but what of it? If Rex has found a Hillary, bless him. He made it out. He is alive. He has invited Zeno for "a bit of a function.
~ Anthony Doerr
My all-time favourite classic use of ricotta is in gnudi: fluffy, cheesy dumplings of almost ethereal, feathery lightness.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather.
~ Javier Perez de Cuellar
It feels a lot freer doing a comedy.
~ Sophie Rundle
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
~ Franz Kafka
Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.
~ Franz Kafka
He was always inclined to take life as lightly as he could, to cross bridges when he came to them, pay no heed for the future, even when everything seemed under threat. But here that did not seem the right thing to do.
~ Franz Kafka
mas manteve uma calma absoluta durante a agonia porque é uma lei tornar a morte leve aos moribundos, de acordo com as nossas próprias forças
~ Franz Kafka
Usko kuin kirves. Yhtä raskas, yhtä kevyt.
~ Franz Kafka