“ My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time. ”
- Richard Watson Gilder- Copy
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“ The burden of the self is lightened when I laugh at myself. ”
- Rabindranath Tagore- Copy
- 4K
“ Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ I allow actors to take chances, and I think levity is valuable, and especially peppered properly in a story like this. ”
- Johnathan Frakes- Copy
- 309
“ Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. ”
- Francis Atterbury- Copy
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“ What, after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean. ”
- Christopher Fry- Copy
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“ I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying. Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd. ”
- Robert Anton Wilson- Copy
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“ Between levity and cheerfulness there is a wide distinction; and the mind which is most open to levity is frequently a stranger to cheerfulness. ”
- Hugh Blair- Copy
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“ Middle age is youth without its levity, And age without decay. ”
- Daniel Defoe- Copy
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“ Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. ”
- Joan Lunden- Copy
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“ One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Worry — a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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