Lightheartedness Quotes

• We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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

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• And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Play, Joy

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.67, Penguin

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• I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like a boy.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Boys, Self

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• We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. If we share with caring, lightheartedness, and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other. And then this moment will have been worthwhile.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love, Caring, Joy

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.76, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Spiritual, Self Improvement

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.76, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It's freedom.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Singing, Wonderful, Feels

  "Andrea Bocelli: 'Only preparation helps my stagefright'". www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2009.

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• For all of the advice in the magazines on "How to Keep your Love Alive," the salvation of love is not the prolongation of sexual desire but the shared lifelong cultivation of a romantic lightheartedness that softens conflicts and anxieties and focuses serious attention even as it undermines seriousness as such. It's hard to fall out of love so long as you're laughing together.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Laughing

  Robert C. Solomon (2006). “About Love: Reinventing Romance for Our Times”, p.343, Hackett Publishing

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• When a child shuts down his painful emotional side, he also loses the ability to express his joyous side. Emotions are a whole. With anger comes the ability to express delight; with sadness comes the ability to express lightheartedness. This is the breadth of emotion that allows an adult to experience intimacy with a spouse, with God, and with his children

  Henry Cloud

  Children, Sadness, Emotional

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• I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Writing, Worry, Feelings

  Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. November 2004.

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• The knowledge of death seemed present in both sisters-it was something about the way they carried themselves, something that had broken too son and had not mended, marking them in spite of their lightheartedness.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Son, Broken, Way

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Dec 31, 2010

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• We tend to associate humor with lightheartedness, but really, it's a rhetorical mode than can be applied to any subject. It was through researching Chechnya that I came to understand this.

  Anthony Marra

  Chechnya, Rhetorical, Subjects

  Source: therumpus.net

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