Top 153 Lightness Quotes & Sayings

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.

Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.

Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.

The songs I write and sing try to say important things with a lightness.

Redheads have a lightness, a craziness, a kookiness. Think of Lucille Ball.

Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.

The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God.

I need the lightness of children's lit.

The world goes on as before, and it turns out that nobody else seems to to notice the unbearable lightness of being.

I remember 'The Cosby Show,' but that was something completely different. Comedy. There was a lightness to it and a sort of unrealistic perfection.

Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.

Simplify, then add lightness.

Being free brings a lightness, a carefree surrender to all that is happening around you, and, above all, an acceptance of reality.

Sometimes immense things, like war and death and aging, are best seen from the corner of the eye and written of only obliquely, with tremendous lightness.

I'm very much known as being the smiley girl, and unfortunately, lightness can be mistaken for stupidity or someone with no depth.

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

Parsley goes really nicely with everything. It adds a nice lightness; it wakes up a dish.

We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.

My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

I try to see the lightness of life, and that comes from having a hard time growing up.

I wanted to show how lightness was possible in the 1960s, but how life is more difficult in the 2000s.

For me it's a dedication to your real interests. It's an ability to be open-minded. Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success. The great artists have been open-minded, even though they may seem, like Picasso, to be very directed, you can be directed and open-minded at the same time. I think you have to be really intensely serious about your work, but not so serious that you can't see the lightness that may also involve your life. You have to have that lightness too. You have to not be so heavy-handed and so ostentatious. It's very important not to be.

Because we were orbiting the earth faster than earth spins on its axis, we went around the earth 16 times a day, an earth day, which meant 16 periods of lightness and 16 periods of darkness in 24 hours. Every so often you'd look towards the earth, and often you could see lightness and darkness together, and dawn and sunset were spectacular.

Simplicate, and add lightness!

Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly.

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.

Lightness of movement is the cardinal demand one has to make on a dancer.

In my mind, I don't necessarily associate a summer show with lightness.

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.

It's just that the longer I fish, the more I long for simplification and lightness.

Overall, 'Singularity' has a certain lightness to it compared to 'Immunity.' It's less closed off; it doesn't have that claustrophobic sound.

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.

I think, in our darkest moments, you have to find the humor, and you have to find the lightness.

The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do.

Can it be chat modesty may more betray Our sense than woman's lightness?

My all-time favourite classic use of ricotta is in gnudi: fluffy, cheesy dumplings of almost ethereal, feathery lightness.

While sincerity is to carry the weight of knowledge in the self, it is also to be the lightness of being clean.

Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease and lightness in what i'm doing? If there isn't then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle.

When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.

Our mission is to celebrate the greatness of Creation and connect it again to the Core where it came from and to where it will go, with care, lightness, joy, reverence and love.

I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness.

...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp the lightness and amusing insignificance of physical love. How she wished she could learn lightness! She yearned for someone to help her out of her anachronistic shell.

Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly. And life is so full of opportunities. You just need the sensitivity. And create chances for other people to laugh. Laughter should be one of the most valued, cherished qualities of human beings - because only man can laugh, no animals are capable of it. Because it is human, it must be of the highest order. To repress it is to destroy a human quality.

If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.

Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.

For baked goods where lightness is a prized attribute - almost all cakes, some cookies - it's important to start with room-temperature butter.

When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has become a great burden to us. We either bear the burden or fail and go down with it, we struggle with it, win or lose. And Sabina - what had come over her? Nothing. She had left a man because she felt like leaving him. Had he persecuted her? Had he tried to take revenge on her? No. Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden, but the unbearable lightness of being.

My art should have a lightness and sweetness. Especially since it has heavy and triggering subject matters, I prefer to present it in a way that's palatable and draws people in.

Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.

O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?

Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness.

Simplicate and add more lightness.

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.

Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness