Top 100 Quotes About Lighten
#1. 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
#2. Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own.
Fulton J. Sheen
#3. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path of another who may be walking in darkness.
Maya Angelou
#4. 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
#5. Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
Quintilian
#6. We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's load.
Ann Romney
#7. When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.
Allen Klein
#8. Increase the number of adventures you act on and you'll lighten the weight of regret.
Gina Greenlee
#9. The best way to lighten your mood is to lift the weight of the world off of your shoulders.
Rob Liano
#10. Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things.
Kenneth Branagh
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.
Maya Angelou
#14. Oh, lighten up, Clark. I'm the one having scalding hot air directed at my genitals.
Jojo Moyes
#15. 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
#16. What manner of men should ministers be? They should thunder in preaching, and lighten in conversation; they should be flaming in prayer, shining in life, and burning in spirit.
Charles Spurgeon
#17. 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
#18. Be a human angel! With love, generosity and kindness, let us lighten the burden of suffering from humanity.
Debasish Mridha
#19. For only while telling the truth does the truth lighten us. When we stop, it turns massive. I left some of my bags on that corner of Green Street somewhere below the equator. Now I carry less and try to dance on my crutches. For only while loving do the pains of feeling lighten.
Mark Nepo
#20. You need to find people who laugh gently at themselves, who remind you gently to lighten up.
Anne Lamott
#21. 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
#22. In every problem there is a lesson to learn, an asset to acquire, a rest to restore, a bitterness to sweeten, a load to lighten or a price to pay.
Ikechukwu Joseph
#23. Contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.
Mignon G. Eberhart
#24. I will follow the upward road today; I will keep my face to the light. I will think high thoughts as I go my way; I will do what I know is right. I will look for the flowers by the side of the road; I will laugh and love and be strong. I will try to lighten another's load this day as I fare along.
Mary Susanne Edgar
#25. And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly writings, the reader must forgive my jocundity, just as I, in order to lighten the burden, sometimes sing at my work.
Soren Kierkegaard
#26. 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
#27. We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.
Justin Cronin
#28. We should tax things we don't like. We should tax pollution ... And we should lighten the taxes on things we do like, like honest labor, like food.
Ralph Nader
#29. Festivals cause diseases, since they lighten cares but increase gluttony.
Apollonius Of Tyana
#30. There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood.
Julie Brown
#31. It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say.
Michael Leunig
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways.
Pope John Paul II
#35. Heart and humor and humility, he said will lighten up your heavy load.
Joni Mitchell
#36. And without delay, turn to the Lord. Exercise all of the faith you have in Him. Let Him share your burden. Allow His grace to lighten your load.
Donald L. Hallstrom
#37. 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
#38. The Statue of Liberty really is profound, I just wish she'd lighten up a bit.
Dov Davidoff
#39. The tang of tamarind is a great way both to flavour and lighten up slow-cooked savoury dishes.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#40. Brothers and sisters, if only we had more compassion for those who are different from us, it would lighten many of the problems and sorrows in the world today. It would certainly make our families and the Church a more hallowed and heavenly place.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#42. Often tales of valiant deeds lighten the heart," said Brandegan. "They give hope, for they remind us that not all forces in the world work wickedness.
Julius Bailey
#43. 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
#44. At some point in my early forties I realized that my primary goal in just about any verbal exchange is to lighten the mood.
Meghan Daum
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. I think there comes a point where you have to grow up and get over yourself, lighten up ... and forgive
Jennifer Aniston
#49. Shobha announced, trying to lighten the mood. "And I'll keep all the books," Girish said in the same spirit. "Fair enough. But not the records. I take most
Amulya Malladi
#50. Enjoy it well. Strengthen the feebler, lighten the darker, love all. Hail and be glad.
C.S. Lewis
#51. 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
#52. What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his nappy hair?
Dick Gregory
#53. Well? Get your suff. You're already late for the appointment or you want we should hug as well?"
Marcus snorted appreciating his brother's attempts to lighten the situation. "Not even if you suddenly morphed into Miss World.
Amy Andrews
#54. One by one, as they march, our comrades vanish from our sight. Be it ours to shed sunshine on their path, to lighten their sorrows by the balm of sympathy, to give them the pure joy of a never-tiring affection. - Bertrand Russell
Sandeep Jauhar
#55. Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.
John Lancaster Spalding
#57. Your woman is gone and your heart is heavy. Words will not lighten the weight, and what is written is written. But let it also be put down that I grieve with you. ~Hasan~
Roger Zelazny
#58. The world needs more people like you, Odette." She smiled to lighten the mood."And you, Jorgen Hortman.
Melanie Dickerson
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. And scars will lighten, they'll pale unless you keep rubbing at them...wait long enough, they'll fade.
C.F. Joyce
#62. Lighten up," I said. "Marriage isn't a sacrament. It's just a bunch of forms to fill out.
Anonymous
#63. Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.
John Milton
#64. Seeker, empty the boat, lighten the load, be free of craving and judgment and hatred, and feel the joy of the way.
Gautama Buddha
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. I think as Christians we have to sponsor a national Lighten-Up Day.
Willie Aames
#68. But it seems to me that these worlds we touch upon can get so dark, anything we can do to lighten them must be a good thing, right?
Neal Shusterman
#69. Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.
Damien Rice
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. Perhaps someone had once hoped to lighten the air of the blue room in Hill House with a dainty wallpaper, not seeing how such a hope would evaporate in Hill House, leaving only the faintest hint of its existence, like an almost inaudible echo of sobbing far away...
Shirley Jackson
#73. For thou art my lamp, O Lord: and the Lord will lighten my darkness.
Anonymous
#74. I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up.
Debra Winger
#75. 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
#76. About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load.
Alan Thicke
#77. Be educated. Only true education and wisdom can lighten the burdens of your life and fill it with joy and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#78. Dread not to climb the mountain, for the higher you rise, your load will lighten; for once on top, easy be the stroll to the meadow down below
Nancy B. Brewer
#80. Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?
Victor Hugo
#81. Dearest, the dark will take a long span.
Get a lantern or torch ready in hand
To lighten the right path so that we can
Cautiously avoid thorns in the night.
(Navigator)
Siwakarn Patoommasoot
#82. We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#83. 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
#84. So what you're saying is, I'm your brand of heroin?" I teased, trying to lighten the mood.
He smiled swiftly, seeming to appreciate my effort. "Yes, you are exactly my brand of heroin.
Stephenie Meyer
#85. 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
#86. But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.
Arthur Miller
#87. With this life I give you humor. Use it to lighten the burdens of your Clan and to lift the spirits of your Clanmates when despair threatens.
Erin Hunter
#88. Our life gets prettier when we try to lighten the burden of others.
Debasish Mridha
#89. 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
#90. Anything you do from the soulful self will help lighten the burdens of the world. Anything. You have no idea what the smallest word, the tiniest generosity, can cause to be set in motion ... Mend the part of the world that is within your reach.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#91. For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.
Clara Zetkin
#92. Time sped. And the poet through sorrow Became like his suffering kind. Again he toiled over his poems To lighten the grief of his mind ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#93. It came to be the natural rule of life with him, that no one should add to the burden of the world, but that each should try to lighten it.
Rabindranath Tagore
#94. So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and easier for others.
Sean O'Casey
#95. The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
Aimee Mann
#96. 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
#97. Asking An Angel To Blow Kisses You Way, Hoping To Lighten & Brighten Your Day.
Tom Baker
#99. By six o'clock that evening, however, even the glow of having successfully asked out Cho Chang was insufficient to lighten the ominous feelings that intensified with every step Harry took toward Snape's office.
J.K. Rowling
#100. 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
