Lightness Quotes
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.
Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.
We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.
Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he's got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw away things, lose them, and find lightness.
When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.
That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.
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.
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.
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.
While sincerity is to carry the weight of knowledge in the self, it is also to be the lightness of being clean.
My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.
Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.
Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.
Hugely enjoyable and insightfulGosling has produced the perfect combination of rigorous research and lightness of prose to create a book that will transform every reader into a super snooper.
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.
In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.
The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do.
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.
When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness
Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.
Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness.
I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.
The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.
The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.
If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.
There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.
Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there?
Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.
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.
Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.
The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God.
I wanted to show how lightness was possible in the 1960s, but how life is more difficult in the 2000s.
Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.
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.
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.