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lighten up

«A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.»
«Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.»
«More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.»
«No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.»
«Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.»
«Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder»
«No loss by flood and lightening, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed»
«The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.»
«Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties.»
«The burden of self is lightened when I laugh at myself.»