Quotes About Lightheartedness

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

Andrea Bocelli

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Jhumpa Lahiri

#6. Whose memories are these? Who speaks to her of this gentle time that she is too young to have known herself? There was hardship then, certainly, but not hearts chained and heavy with fear. Who is it that laughs with aged lightheartedness and suggests that this is still a place of promise?

Margaret Cezair-Thompson

#7. 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

#8. I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

Alice Walker

#9. And much later, long after Bastian had returned to his world, in his maturity and
even in his old age, this joy never left him entirely. Even in the hardest moments of hislife he preserved a lightheartedness that made him smile and that comforted others.

Michael Ende

#10. You want to know what I make? I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor and an A-minus feel like a slap in the face.

Taylor Mali

#11. Franco will bring the army from Castille. The ambassador will complain, causing a schism. Rivera's men will be part of the force. The great man will be denied entry to the gulf.

Nostradamus

#12. Traditionally, even numbers of flowers are only suitable for funerals and cemeteries. For all other occasions, Russians use an odd number of flowers.

Julia Gousseva

#13. I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

Joshua Lederberg

#14. Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.

Nikolay Chernyshevsky

#15. Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.

Billy Corgan

#16. I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!

Bill Paxton

#17. It's not that there aren't people who care creatively in the world of television, but there's always a bit more time in making a movie. I always feel films are more of a creative journey.

William Fichtner

#18. All our actions, if not motivated by love, are pointless

Sunday Adelaja

#19. I don't know if people really care about my opinion on things or how I come up with things, and maybe that's an insecurity and why we're comedians in the first place, so I think with that you keep doing the material, you keep trying to be funny cause you think that's all you're wanted for.

Nick Thune

#20. The happy-go-lucky have the best luck.

Marty Rubin

#21. I end up standing in front of the nearby painting with my arms and legs open wide, flapping them around and doing a damn fine imitation of a demented hooker doing an upright snow-angel as I try to protect the painting from damage.

Elle Casey