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lightness

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The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; nimbleness; delicacy; grace.

Illumination, or degree of illumination; as, the lightness of a room.

Absence of depth or of duskiness in color; as, the lightness of a tint; lightness of complexion.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The world goes on as before, and it turns out that nobody else seems to to notice the unbearable lightness of being. Lewis H. Lapham

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness. Italo Calvino

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. Joan Lunden

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature. Johannes V. Jensen

When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness. Nhat Hanh

Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child. Joseph Goebbels

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