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Tag Name "Lightness" (79)

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To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her for her love of knowledge had a fertilizing quality and her imagination was strong. There was at this time, however, a want of lightness in her situation, which the arrival of an unexpected visitor did much to dispel.
Henry James
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Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
Milan Kundera
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A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
Milan Kundera
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Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.
Pablo Picasso
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The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
Milan Kundera
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... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should but in a light way, you know.
George Eliot
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Simplicate, and add lightness!
William Bushnell Stout
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There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.
Johannes V. Jensen
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When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
Milan Kundera
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Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he's got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw away things, lose them, and find lightness.
Ajahn Chah
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All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.
Alexander Skarsgard
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To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.
Eckhart Tolle
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To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly.
Eckhart Tolle
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Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.
Richard Serra
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He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
Milan Kundera
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but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.
William Butler Yeats
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Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.
Milan Kundera
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I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.
Charles Baudelaire
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In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.
Milan Kundera
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Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.
Joseph Goebbels
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she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.
Milan Kundera
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And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
Milan Kundera
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I have not only found good health, but perfect health I have found a new state of being, a potentiality of life a sense of lightness and cleanness and joyfulness, such as I did not know could exist in the human body.
Upton Sinclair
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Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.
Italo Calvino
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