G.K. Chesterton wrote that angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly. It goes hand-in-hand with this quote by Huxley, "Learn to do everything lightly". https://t.co/aGHMOmpR4c
G.K. Chesterton wrote that angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly. It goes hand-in-hand with this quote by Huxley, "Learn to do everything lightly". https://t.co/aGHMOmpR4c
Unchecked levity leaves you flighty, ungrounded, and unreal. Unchecked gravity leaves you collapsed in a heap of misery,” she writes. “Yet when properly combined, these two opposing forces leave you buoyant.”15
Daniel H. Pink • To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others
life is heavy enough without you adding your own self-seriousness to it, you've got to learn to take yourself lightly, life falls into place after that
Dylano on Substack
“Thee onnlly wway ttoo ccope withh ssometthingg ddeadly sseriouss iss ttoo ttry ttoo trreatt itt a llittlle lligghtly.”
Madeleine L'Engle • A Wrinkle in Time
But when a person is humorless, it’s the opposite. They’ve lost the point of life.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
