Quotes About Lightness Of Being

#1. Every one of my novels could be entitled The Unbearable Lightness of Being or The Joke or Laughable Loves; the titles are interchangeable, they reflect the small number of themes that obsess me, define me, and unfortunately, restrict me. Beyond these themes, I have nothing else to say or write.

Milan Kundera

#2. God doesn't promise us escape from suffering or pain. Rather, He promises to miraculously use even bad situations for your ultimate good.

Jim George

#3. Let the planet be convulsed with exploding bombs.

Milan Kundera

#4. I always tell people this when they're looking for an agent - they should love your work. You are entitled to work with someone who believes in you. Why do business with someone who is ambivalent about you and your art?

Jami Attenberg

#5. If I walk down the street in jeans and a plain t-shirt, I don't feel like the world sees me as I want to be seen or as what I am.

Rachel Trachtenburg

#6. To grasp the truth is a delicate gesture, like taking a hand in greeting, a lightness of touch is needed if one is to feel the presence of another being.

Susan Griffin

#7. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.

Steve Jobs

#8. With the lightness of being above the clouds gently wrapped in wings of love.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#9. Her mouth - ah, that lush, sweet mouth - was a garden, and I was on my back, face tipped in adoration to the sun for giving me such brilliance, delightful aromas, and the indescribable lightness of being with her.

Julia Kent

#10. Kell swept Lila up into his arms, amazed at her lightness. She took up so much space in the world - in his world - it was hard to imagine her being so slight. In his mind, she was made of stone.

V.E Schwab

#11. The world goes on as before, and it turns out that nobody else seems to to notice the unbearable lightness of being.

Lewis H. Lapham

#12. My mum taught me how to read before I went to kindergarden, I always thought that being able to read provided lightness, help to dispel darkness, ignorance and stupidity.

Michael Moore

#13. You have to be courageous in life to allow a lightness to engage your being. It is easy to be a jerk. To be unhappy with all this weird stuff around us just seems to me to be such a waste. That's a jerk.

Frederick Lenz

#14. While sincerity is to carry the weight of knowledge in the self, it is also to be the lightness of being clean.

John De Ruiter

#15. Our inner self is part of the cosmic reality, hence it's in our nature to rise above the darkness and merge into the lightness of 'being'. (Page 92 - Songs of the Mist)

Shashi

#16. If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond Es Muss sein!

Milan Kundera

#17. I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.

Julia Roberts

#18. Anyone who starts doubting details will end by doubting life itself.

Milan Kundera

#19. Only a sense of lightness, giddy and dizzying, like flight - of a burden that didn't belong to me being lifted.
Suddenly I knew the truth and the lights surrounding me exploded.
I am free.

Andrea Cremer

#20. Being free brings a lightness, a carefree surrender to all that is happening around you, and, above all, an acceptance of reality.

Deepak Chopra

#21. He had entered Parmenides' magic field: he was enjoying the sweet lightness of being.

Milan Kundera

#22. In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.

Milan Kundera

#23. Life is a lot like skateboarding.

Lil' Wayne

#24. For a moment he felt it, like a faint pulsing: the lightness that came with a few lazy summer months, the quiet joy in being connected to people you loved and who loved you.

Natalie Baszile

#25. It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself.

Theodore Roosevelt

#26. There is no perfection only life
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being

Milan Kundera

#27. What distinguishes success from failures is that the successes constantly thirst for new ideas and knowledge.

Robin Sharma