Lightness Quotes

• Simplify, then add lightness.

  Colin Chapman

  Life, Simple, Simplicity

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

  Richard Serra

  Weight, Unbearable

  Richard Serra (1994). “Writings/Interviews”, p.185, University of Chicago Press

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

  Margaret Atwood

  Crush, Home, Emptiness

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Tent”, p.25, Anchor

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

  Deepak Chopra

  Freedom, Acceptance, Reality

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• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Light, Flying, Want

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

  Eckhart Tolle

  Grace, Ease, Awakening

  Twitter post from Nov 01, 2012

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

  Sharon Salzberg

  Ease, Care, Greater

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Jul 17, 2011

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• To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Grace, Gone

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.188, New World Library

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• Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

  Italo Calvino

  Sad, Taken, Melancholy

  Italo Calvino (1988). “Six Memos for the Next Millennium”, p.19, Harvard University Press

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• 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.

  Milan Kundera

  Drama, Unbearable, Burden

  The Unbearable Lightness of Being pt. 3, ch. 10 (1984) (translation by Michael Henry Heim)

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

  Joan Lunden

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Laughter

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• When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

  Milan Kundera

  Inspirational, Heart, Mind

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• 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

  Nature, Fall, House

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.282

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• In lightness the root is lost. In haste the ruler is lost.

  Laozi

  Roots, Taoism, Haste

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• And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?

  Milan Kundera

  Rehearsal, Firsts, Unbearable

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• Happiness is the longing for repetition.

  Milan Kundera

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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

  Alicia Silverstone

  Stupid, Clueless, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

  Milan Kundera

  Pain, Compassion, Imagination

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Retirement, Flower

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.222, Penguin

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• Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass!

  Milan Kundera

  Running, Children, Nice

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies.

  Milan Kundera

  Lying, Mean, Eye

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.

  Milan Kundera

  Life, Mean, Decision

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• But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

  Milan Kundera

  Strong, Hurt, Unbearable

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

  Milan Kundera

  Relationship, Love Is, Violence

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something - love - from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.

  Milan Kundera

  Love, Asking, Demand

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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