Lighten Quotes

124 quotes by 112 authors

God doesnâ€™t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us.… — Pat Summitt
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… — Pope John Paul II
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… — Clara Zetkin
The heaviest of my crosses was that I could do nothing to lighten the cross my mother was suffering. — Margaret Mary Alacoque
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… — Donald L. Hallstrom
My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can. — Mary Wortley Montagu
To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can… — Aung San Suu Kyi
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
Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the… — Mahatma Gandhi
What do you say we lighten things up and talk about abortion?... — Bill Hicks
Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise? — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Like night dreams, stores often use symbolic language, therefore bypassing the ego and persona, and traveling straight to the spirit and soul who listen for… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims to… — William Strunk, Jr.
Only when you lift a burden, God will lift your burden. Divine paradox this! The man who staggers and falls because his burden is too… — Spencer W. Kimball
Rise early. Fix a time-table to which you must try to keep. One seldom regrets having made an early start, but one always regrets having… — Gaston Rebuffat
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… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same… — Maya Angelou
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… — Seth Godin
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… — Soren Kierkegaard
Let us learn this lesson from Nehemiah: you never lighten the load unless first you have felt the pressure in your own soul. You are… — Alan Redpath

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