Lightly Quote of the Day

Welcome to these Lightly Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.

Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Dance Lightly With Life:
Today is your day to
dance lightly with life,
sing wild songs of adventure,
soar your spirit,
unfurl your joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Happy Birthday!
Today is YOUR day to Dance Lightly With Life.
Have a wonderful day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today is my day to dance lightly with life,
sing wild songs of adventure,
invite rainbows & butterflies out to play,
soar my spirit, and unfurl my joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Watch your toes when you waltz with life, Dance Lightly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you have to have it, it's ego.
If you have to not have it, it's ego.
Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need
and release what you don't.
- Alan Cohen

Be an Original, smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat, dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know that today is your day to dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a constant opponent,
and an overpowering adversary if attacked directly.
The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life -
a parry here, a feint there - always engaged,
but never in the direct line of life's heaviest blows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole
for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast
and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat -
dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate
act that should not be indulged in lightly.
- M. F. K. Fisher

May You Dance Lightly With Life, and Have a Whimsical Day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I Dance with a Light Heart.
I play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I don't always prepare such rich meals.
Sometimes I'll just serve a simple quiche,
salad and dessert for dinner.
During the week I try to eat lightly.
- Paul Lynde

I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves,
hard as I try.
Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.
- Stuart Chase

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly;
it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
- Thomas Paine

Everyone wants to beat us.
So you can never take a single game lightly.
- Jim Otto

Presidents do not go into war lightly.
It's a tremendous responsibility in making decisions,
and I know Bush must deeply believe this is the only course.
- Julie Nixon Eisenhower

The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life
into this world is one that cannot be taken lightly.
- Gloria Estefan

Closest to the truth are those who deal lightly with
it because they know it is inexhaustible.
- Golo Mann

If you see most people neglect the Bible,
and many that can read never look into it,
let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it,
and that it is a book of no worth.
- Jupiter Hammon

Never eat less than four hours before boxing.
Then eat only lightly.
- Gene Tunney

I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly
that it never creates a disturbance.
- Andrew Taylor Still

For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing;
and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America
is not lightly to be disregarded.
- Howard K. Smith

He puts his right hand lightly on the cup,
I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe,
and away we go.
We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour.
Better than gasoline.
- James Merrill

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and
that to be free means to be brave.
Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
- Thucydides

It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera.
It's like looking right into the heart of the film,
and you can't take that lightly.
- Emily Watson

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture.
It's an activity I take very seriously.
- Howard Hodgkin

If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me,
and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.
- Max Nordau

It's become more and more of a priority for me to tread
as lightly as possible in the world.
- Shalom Harlow

With Maurice suddenly going, I realised...
I think I've matured.
I don't take things lightly any more.
- Robin Gibb

None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly.
The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively
studied and it really is time to act.
- Sam Brownback

Who made the rule that life has to be so serious?
One would think that "life is serious" had been engraved
upon stone tablets to judge from how most lives are lived.
Get a life, smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat - dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily
as those which are armed to the teeth,
and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.
- Ludwig Quidde

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly,
but because he felt deeply.
- John Buchan

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious
crime to go free simply because that person believed
his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.
- Sol Wachtler

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things,
which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier,
less developed consciousness passed lightly by,
is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
- Walter Pater

People have taken time out of their day and spent their
money to come sit down at a concert.
And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it.
I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly.
- Wynton Marsalis

I take my fun very seriously, whether it's playing
the drums or acting in comedy bits.
The need to be disciplined about it,
and not take it lightly,
and not be too casual, is something I take deeply to heart.
- Max Weinberg

Confederation is a compact, made originally by four
provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it,
and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the
best consideration of its members,
that this compact should not be lightly altered.
- Wilfrid Laurier

Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness?
David Cameron dipped a toe in the water,
using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies.
Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.
- Polly Toynbee

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Beyond a doubt, truth bears the same relation
to falsehood as light to darkness.
- Leonardo da Vinci

The unknown is like the darkness of a cave -
it can be illuminated by the brief light
of one adventurer's small candle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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