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Quotes About Lighten

Carry sunshine with you, Brother, as you go; Cheerfulness will lighten Many a weight of woe. Angels guard the pathway Darkened by our fears, Sunshine makes a rainbow Even of our tears.
~ Susan E. Gammons
Maturity understands that there's darkness in the world but that there's no need to dwell in it: we can lighten up and offer illumination to others.
~ Gina Barreca
In life, when the baggage gets too heavy, you have to put it down.
~ Nikki Sixx
Unless the word "just" had an added meaning of "with the help of magical powers," urging me to "just do" something sounded like telling a person consumed by anxiety to "just calm down" or a clinically depressed person to "just lighten up!
~ Lara Vapnyar
Planning one big adventure and one little adventure each week can make life feel like less of a grind. But it's not the only way to lighten up, and many of us could use a lot more cheer in the daily experience of our hours. So, after you've gotten into the rhythm of building in adventures, try adding another component: some weekly note of whimsy too. Whimsy
~ Laura Vanderkam
The secret to enlightenment is to lighten up. Whether you are talking rock or women, all there.
~ Steven Tyler
Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.
~ Allen Klein
Well, you've taken a weight off my mind." "A mind, I should imagine, scarcely constructed to bear great weights.
~ p g wodehouse
The way to reunite with bodhichitta is to lighten up in your practice and in your whole life. Meditation
~ Pema Chodron
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
~ Robert South
There is nothing for her beyond those gates," Gavriel said. "Do you think to bring her along like a talisman to remind you of your humanity? Or do you think sharing your damnation will lighten the burden of it?
~ Holly Black
To extend love, to promote thought, to lighten suffering, to combat indifference, to inspire activity. To know everything of something and something of everything.
~ Vera Brittain
Made people laugh. Dennis had a way of making everybody lighten up when things were tense. How could you get down on yourself when there's this crazy guy on the team who had dyed his hair with a big yellow happy face?
~ Phil Jackson
Drop some of them bricks you keep hauling around with you. Life just ain't that heavy.
~ Cynthia Rylant
There's been a lot on my mind, I replied. It seems unlikely that your cares will lighten, Queen Mab replied. Improve your mind.
~ Jim Butcher
Too much balast slows you down.
~ Joanne Harris
Throwing lamps at people who need to lighten the f*ck up.
~ Unknown
Heavy hearts, much like heavy clouds in the sky, are relieved by the letting of water.
~ John Irving
Perhaps one of the truths that Dante is trying to convey to us in this passage is that we can only ascend into the joy of God when we lighten up; when we can look down and smile upon our foolishness. Chesterton once said that the devil cannot laugh at himself and that he fell from heaven because of his gravity and that angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
~ Unknown
offices of Love, how we may light'n Each others burden in our share of woe; Since this days Death denounc't, if ought I see, Will prove no sudden, but a slow-pac't evill, A
~ John Milton
Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.
~ Horace
Let the love of God lighten your life, let his kindness mold you into his presence, let him be your guide as you travel the road of life. good morning! May God bless you and your family today and always.
~ Unknown
Let the love of God lighten your life, let his kindness mold you into his presence, let him be your guide as you travel the road of life. Good morning!
~ Unknown
could give them, not the dutiful, selfish and perfunctory love of an adolescent, but an understanding love that would lighten
~ Marge Piercy