Quotes about lighten

God’s at work, lightening every load!

When I could find something to laugh about for 30 minutes, my grief lightened just enough to make the day bearable.

Laughter lightens my heart and therefore heals my soul as well.

As I walk , I light the lamp of my soul. As I walk, I light the wick of another’s soul.

The only power which can illuminate you is your own mind! No other mind can lighten you if your mind insists to remain in the darkness! The fate of your fate is within you!

True love always brings joy to ourself and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us it is not true love.

True love comes quietly without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells get your ears checked.

True love is night jasmine a diamond in darkness the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles fashioned of fleecy clouds - a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.

The essence of love is kindness.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Love is letting go of fear.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident a tight girdle a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them there ought to be as many for love.

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love . . . We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops or we can make music.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why some days it's so quiet you don't even know it's there.

Love is not what we become but who we already are.

Ultimately love is self-approval.

Love is above all the gift of oneself.

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are . . . your simple presence can make others happy.

It is not what we do it is how much love we put in the doing.

Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline . . . too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with. . . something about yourself your career your spouse.

Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

We are most alive when we're in love.

In our life there is a single color as on an artist's palette which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.

A five-word sentence that could change the world tomorrow is "What would love do now?"

Do not seek perfection in a changing world. Instead perfect your love.

Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.

Spend a moment every day thinking of someone to love.

Ultimately love is everything.

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Love is how you stay alive even after you are gone.

A light heart lives long.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

Man unlike the animal has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.

Life's better when it's fun. Boy that's deep isn't it?

When a man is gloomy everything seems to go wrong when he is cheerful everything seems right!

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

Years back someone said cod liver oil was the cure-all! Cheerfulness is more palliative and with no unpleasant aftertaste.

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness such a state like the region above the moon is always clear and serene.

Let us be of good cheer remembering that misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

Even if we can't be happy we must always be cheerful.

Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

Cheerfulness is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

If God came in and said "I want you to be happy for the rest of your life " what would you do?

True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have which is abundantly sufficient.

Many people think that if they were only in some other place or had some other job they would be happy. Well that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.

The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.

None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.

Do you want a world with . . . more joy and happiness? Then find your own joy and happiness and contribute to the joy and happiness of others.

One thing I know the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.

If you want to be happy set yourself a goal that commands your thoughts liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. Happiness is within you. It comes from doing some certain thing into which you can put all your thought and energy. If you want to be happy get enthusiastic about something.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate your mind from worry. Live simply expect little give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile a kind look a heartfelt compliment and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.

A happy life is made up of little things . . . a gift sent a letter written a call made a recommendation given transportation provided a cake made a book lent a check sent.

Do not worry eat three square meals a day say your prayers be courteous to your creditors keep your digestion good exercise go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy but my friend these I reckon will give you a good life.

The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes but in liking what one does.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings - not your birthdays.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

It is not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.

Before strongly desiring anything we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path and we will never be happy if we live someone else's idea of life.

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do something to love and something to hope for.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

We all have 100% to deal with in our lives: 10% is important 90% unimportant. The secret to a happy productive life is to deal with the 10% and let the 90% slip.

With a little discipline and regular self-checks you can learn to do one thing at a time. And do it better. And be happier doing it.

I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old . . . If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today my husband Larry and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Life holds so much so much to be happy about always. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can be felt only if you don't set any conditions.

Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love grace and gratitude.

Better to be happy than wise.

Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always just beyond your grasp but which if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.

Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties.

Remember that happiness is a way of travel not a destination.

When ill luck besets us to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is?

When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

It is the happiness that comes from within that is lasting and fulfilling.

Each person on this planet is inherently intrinsically capable of attaining "dizzying heights" of happiness and fulfillment.

The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.