Lighten Quotes

124 Lighten quotes by 112 unique authors

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
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,… — Charles Spurgeon
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… — Jane Siberry
Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune. — Horace
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. — Robert South
If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increases our faith,… — Dorothy Day
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
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… — Sean O'Casey
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… — Rosamund Pike
Heart and humor and humility, he said will lighten up your heavy load. — Joni Mitchell
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… — Downtown Julie Brown

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