Lightness Quotes

• 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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• 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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• Simplify, then add lightness.

  Colin Chapman

  Life, Simple, Simplicity

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

  Joan Lunden

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Laughter

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

  Laozi

  Roots, Taoism, Haste

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• In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

  Milan Kundera

  Sunset, Auras, Unbearable

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", 1988.

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• Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.

  Milan Kundera

  Goal, Suffering, Unbearable

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• Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.

  Milan Kundera

  Cutting, Tests, Unbearable

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• Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

  Milan Kundera

  Love Is, Half, Unbearable

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

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• The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

  Milan Kundera

  Beautiful, Memories, Brain

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

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• And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

  Milan Kundera

  Happiness, Running, Time

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• In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Age, Body

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera, translated by Michael Henry Heim, 1984.

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• Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.

  Milan Kundera

  Success, Fall, Voice

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• A single metaphor can give birth to love.

  Milan Kundera

  Giving, Unbearable, Birth

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

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