Lightness Quotes
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Lightness Quotes & Sayings
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Gravity is the root of lightness;
— Lao-Tzu
There are two prerequisites to growing wings: the first is to feel encircled and the second is to believe that you can break the circle.
— Fatema Mernissi
Lightness can be found after the dark; appreciated when seldom seen.
— Gisele T. Siegmund
The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God.
— William Bernard Ullathorne
Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning ... look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.
— Bernie Glassman
My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.
— Milan Kundera
In the afternoon the digestion of the meal deprives me of the incomparable lightness which characterizes the fast days.
— Adalbert De Vogue
[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Suddenly, I'm lighter, only half of who I was.
— Shannon Mullen
If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.
— Sara Genn
All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.
— Alexander Skarsgard
Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.
— Italo Calvino
Life consists on lightness and darkness, when you reached to lightness, prepare your tools for darkness
— Kamaran Ihsan Salih
Is heaviness truly deplorable and lightness splendid?
— Milan Kundera
Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.
— Portia De Rossi
This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.
— Ayn Rand
Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.
— Italo Calvino
Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.
— Ellen G. White
Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.
— Pablo Picasso
Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.
— Charles Dickens
My all-time favourite classic use of ricotta is in gnudi: fluffy, cheesy dumplings of almost ethereal, feathery lightness.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.
— Milan Kundera
Let the planet be convulsed with exploding bombs.
— Milan Kundera
I felt a wonderful lightness in my body, a ridiculous happiness, it seemed to come from nowhere.
— Zadie Smith
Gravity is the root of lightness; stillness the ruler of movement. (Mueller, op. cit., p. 69.)
— Erich Fromm
With the lightness of being above the clouds gently wrapped in wings of love.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
I wanted to show how lightness was possible in the 1960s, but how life is more difficult in the 2000s.
— Christophe Honore
Simplicate, and add lightness!
— William Bushnell Stout
Being free brings a lightness, a carefree surrender to all that is happening around you, and, above all, an acceptance of reality.
— Deepak Chopra
How heavy a body that has been traversed by death is, life is light, there's no need to let anyone make it heavy for us
— Elena Ferrante
We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
— Sharon Salzberg
He had entered Parmenides' magic field: he was enjoying the sweet lightness of being.
— Milan Kundera
The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.
— Steve Jobs
The world goes on as before, and it turns out that nobody else seems to to notice the unbearable lightness of being.
— Lewis H. Lapham
Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.
— Anthony Powell
While sincerity is to carry the weight of knowledge in the self, it is also to be the lightness of being clean.
— John De Ruiter
How she wished she could learn lightness!
— Milan Kundera
When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.
— Joel Edgerton
I guess all the time I spend on social media has made me believe that love exists above the surface, that it's supposed to be light all of the time.
— Shannon Mullen
You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering.
— Portia De Rossi
A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.
— Margaret Atwood
She caught me looking at her.
'What?' she asked.
'Your lightness,' I said, hardly knowing what I was saying. 'It's disarming. — David Levithan
'What?' she asked.
'Your lightness,' I said, hardly knowing what I was saying. 'It's disarming. — David Levithan
Well, darkness has a hunger that's insatiable, and lightness has a call that's hard to hear.
— Indigo Girls
There is helium in his tone of voice, a lightness that means mischief.
— Augusten Burroughs
The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do.
— Peter Capaldi
Can it be chat modesty may more betray
Our sense than woman's lightness? — William Shakespeare
Our sense than woman's lightness? — William Shakespeare
He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.
— William Cowper
Simplicate and add more lightness.
— Bill Stout
Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.
— Joseph Goebbels
The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.
— Martin Puryear
Simplify and add lightness
— Colin Chapman