Top 70 Lighten Up Sayings
#1. Guys like this Henry always pushed even the most unfunny joke two steps too far . . . then looked wounded and misunderstood when someone yelled at them. And it was always Wassa matter? and it was Can'tcha take a joke? and it was Why don'tcha lighten up a little?
Stephen King
#3. Being able to tell the truth about our own lack of personal integrity has integrity to it. The key to being able to deal with and lighten up about our own humanity is to get wholly honest about our dishonesty.
Lauren Handel Zander
#4. People are so sensitive, people are so defensive. I agree with you. We have to learn to loosen up, lighten up, and laugh a little bit.
Ainsley Earhardt
#5. Jesus, Morelli, you sound like you have PMS. You have to learn to lighten up a little. It's just a car alarm. You should be thanking me. I had it installed with my own money.
Janet Evanovich
#6. I thought you'd snap out of it. I thought, with a little time, you'd lighten up and see how it didn't matter!
Richie Tankersley Cusick
#8. Oh for God's sake, Jack, lighten up. You know the old saying. Every man loves the smell of his own farts." In
Jake Needham
#9. You so need to lighten up about that potato-launcher incident," Butch said.
Phury rolled his eyes and eased back in the banquette. "You broke my window."
"Of course we did. V and I were aiming for it."
"Twice."
"Thus proving that he and I are outstanding marksmen.
J.R. Ward
#11. Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.
Deborah Day
#12. The enemy of creativity ... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
Seth Godin
#13. Lighten up. Brighten up - that's my mantra, and it gets me through the rest of the afternoon.
Zoe Thurner
#14. BEING ABLE to lighten up is the key to feeling at home with your body, mind, and emotions, to feeling worthy to live on this planet.
Pema Chodron
#15. The secret to enlightenment is to lighten up. Whether you are talking rock or women, all there.
Steven Tyler
#16. When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.
Allen Klein
#17. Simplicity in its pure form can lighten up the tough.
Dr. Bee
#18. To be even more successful in Business Development, lighten up, enjoy the journey, learn from your prospects and learn from your experiences. As a professional Business Developer, don't take yourself or any situation too seriously, and always be thankful for your resulting opportunities.
Nicholas Coppings
#19. Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.
George Will
#21. People don't understand sarcasm, like, they take everything too seriously. People need to lighten up and go ice skating.
Daniel Johns
#22. Normally I laugh at such things, because there is nothing like a fart to lighten up a tense situation.
Kevin Hearne
#23. Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy.
Jackson Browne
#24. Children - even when they have endured the unthinkable - have a gift for divining the moment when the grown-ups really need to lighten up.
Barbara Kingsolver
#25. One talks much more about the evil than about the good. That is a paradox. We should only talk about the good to lighten up our existence. Chase anxiousness/fear away for a moment before it sneaks back in again to our life.
Odd Nerdrum
#26. Hey, lighten up ... This is only a game, you know.
H.M. Forester
#27. It's hard to be told to lighten up because if you lighten up any more, you're going to float the fuck away.
Roxane Gay
#28. Lighten up. You're too intense. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Regina Brett
#29. There are going to be good times and bad times, but lighten up.
Chris Pine
#30. I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up.
Debra Winger
#31. I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.
Jane Siberry
#32. Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things.
Kenneth Branagh
#33. Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.
Allen Klein
#34. Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.
Allen Klein
#35. Oh, lighten up, Clark. I'm the one having scalding hot air directed at my genitals.
Jojo Moyes
#36. Lighten up." I yawned, pointing across the street to the diner. "If I got upset every time someone beat me, or chased me, or tried to rape me, I'd be crying in my cereal every morning. No one likes a whiner.
Mary Calmes
#37. You need to find people who laugh gently at themselves, who remind you gently to lighten up.
Anne Lamott
#38. Maybe the most important teaching is to lighten up and relax. It's such a huge help in working with our crazy mixed-up minds to remember that what we're doing is unlocking a softness that is in us and letting it spread. We're letting it blur the sharp corners of self-criticism and complaint.
Pema Chodron
#39. To the critics: You always complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff, and then when you get it, you flip out. Lighten up.
Peter Farrelly
#40. Heart and humor and humility, he said will lighten up your heavy load.
Joni Mitchell
#41. Some people will find any reason to hate. Don't waste ur time. Lighten up! It takes so much less energy to smile than to hate. Enjoy life.
Ariana Grande
#42. The Statue of Liberty really is profound, I just wish she'd lighten up a bit.
Dov Davidoff
#43. The tang of tamarind is a great way both to flavour and lighten up slow-cooked savoury dishes.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#44. When we're on set, we kind of joke around, and when we're rehearsing, we change up the scenes and make each other laugh. We lighten up the mood. The blooper reel is going to be amazing on 'New Moon.'
Kellan Lutz
#45. I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh.
Rosamund Pike
#46. Maturity understands that there's darkness in the world but that there's no need to dwell in it: we can lighten up and offer illumination to others.
Gina Barreca
#47. Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.
Michael J. Gelb
#48. How come you got to start making the bed the minute your feet hit the floor? You need to lighten up, girl. Live a little!' Then she'd laugh, delighted with herself and at my inability to be angry with her.
Lorene Cary
#49. Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.
Damien Rice
#50. I think as Christians we have to sponsor a national Lighten-Up Day.
Willie Aames
#51. Keep moving. Create routines (but sometimes break them). Be opportunistic. Be a mensch. Believe in something. Lighten up. Cultivate a sense of progress. Don't do it if you don't love it. Begin now.
Bruce Grierson
#52. I'd like to encourage us all to lighten up, to practice with a lot of gentleness. This is not the drill sergeant saying, "Lighten up or else." I have found that if we can possibly use anything we hear against ourselves, we usually do.
Pema Chodron
#53. When you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.
Richard Carlson
#54. Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it.
Sol LeWitt
#55. I think there comes a point where you have to grow up and get over yourself, lighten up ... and forgive
Jennifer Aniston
#56. Have interesting failures ... If you need to have a personal crisis have it now. Don't wait until midlife, when it will take longer to resolve ... Don't pity yourselves. Lighten up. Seek people with a sense of humor. Avoid humorless people-and do not marry one, for God's sake.
Garrison Keillor
#57. Man, I'm just trying to get you lighten up a bit." "Murphy, we're looking at a thousand rotting corpses. Lighten up?" "Life is what you make it, man.
Bobby Adair
#58. Lighten up," I said. "Marriage isn't a sacrament. It's just a bunch of forms to fill out.
Anonymous
#59. What do you say we lighten things up and talk about abortion? ...
Bill Hicks
#60. Moron?" I asked, trying to lighten the suddenly tense mood. She covered her eyes with one hand. "It was the best I could come up with on the spot. Now that he's gone, I have so many bitchier things to say." Her chin trembled, and I was the one that felt like a moron. "I'm sorry," I whispered.
Rachel Higginson
#61. Probably "I love my life" would be something I would say out loud to the planet - just that positive affirmation. And also, "Life is short," "Don't take yourself so seriously," and "Lighten the f - k up." And if that offends you, you really need to lighten the f - k up.
John Feldmann
#62. As the tissues of the body fester and rot under X rays, so under the sun fester and rot Anglo-Saxonism and Teutonism and Scandinavianism if left too long beneath its influence.
Compton Mackenzie
#63. When you're given the gift of truth, you spend a lot of time trying to tone it down because it is already offensive enough.
Shannon L. Alder
#65. I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.
Martin Scorsese
#66. Indeed. Oh, and Fal?"
"Yeah?"
"Get laid, while you're up there, won't you?"
"Oh, God."
"Seriously. Your hymen's going to grow back, it's been so long. Have a fling. It might lighten you up."
"Goodbye, Rache."
Meg Maguire, The Reluctant Nude
Meg Maguire
#67. A hundred different paths may lighten the world's load of suffering. Giving up meat is one path; giving up bananas is another. The more we know about our food system, the more we are called into complex choices.
Barbara Kingsolver
#68. If it's strictly comedy, I like to bring some darkness to it. If it's strictly drama, I always like to lighten it up as well. I like to find some kind of dimension and make my characters human, so that it doesn't feel like a sketch and feels more like a slice of life.
Nestor Carbonell
#69. There are many things evil people can take from you. However, they can never steal your ability to laugh and laugh loud.
Shannon L. Alder
#70. take up your little burdens again, for though they seem heavy sometimes, they are good for us, and lighten as we learn to carry them.
Louisa May Alcott
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