Wellness

LIGHTNESS IN FORM & SPIRIT

Here are some beautiful thoughts and images we found about the lightness of being.

“The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever had was the day I climbed a thermal in a glider at the same time as an eagle. I witnessed, close up, effortlessness and lightness combined with strength, precision and determination.”

-- Norman Foster

“I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”

-- Steve Jobs

“Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.”

-- William James

“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

“Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.”

-- Frank Lloyd Wright

“Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.”

-- Italo Calvino

“I stood there feeling the lightness of my bones, knowing now this was not only lack of sleep that had transformed my bones into feathers, but my body's recognition that soon I would be leaving this place I had inhabited for one year, this place made entirely of grief.”

― Anne Spollen, The Shape of Water

“Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“I always figured we were born to fly, one way or other, so I couldn't stand most men shuffling along with all the iron of the earth in their blood. I never met a man who weighed less than nine hundred pounds.”

― Ray Bradbury, Twice 22: The Golden Apples of the Sun / A Medicine for Melancholy

“I had to find a relationship with someone who could simultaneously make me grow up and keep me forever young.”