Top 33 Lighten Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Lighten Quotes from famous people such as Ad-Rock, Julian Baggini, Ann Romney, Allen Klein, Tony Robinson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

If I had to say something, it would be 'Lighten up. Be

If I had to say something, it would be ‘Lighten up. Be cool.’ There’s just so many buffoons out there.
Ad-Rock
Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process.
Julian Baggini
We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other’s burdens, lighten each other’s load.
Ann Romney
When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.
Allen Klein
It’s not that I think every late 19th-century man with a beard who saw something shimmering in front of him was actually seeing his dead aunty. What I’m saying is: lighten up. This isn’t weird stuff. It’s interesting.
Tony Robinson
Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.
George Will
To me, a WrestleMania Sunday is ‘I serve at the behest and at the pleasure of my beast.’ I’m there to lighten the mood. I’m there to keep the mood light and not make it too heavy, and to keep the pressure off Brock Lesnar.
Paul Heyman
The tang of tamarind is a great way both to flavour and lighten up slow-cooked savoury dishes.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.
Damien Rice
I used to think of Mexican food as a once-in-a-while type of thing because it can be so heavy, but I learned how to lighten it up easily and keep it just as flavorful. That’s awesome, since it’s the perfect festive dinner for hanging out with friends on a relaxed night.
Katie Lee
If I can laugh with people, it makes me feel safe with them. If I feel someone has no sense of humour, I find it really scary. I do it with the kids as well: put on stupid voices to lighten up the spirit or gee them along to do something.
Julia Davis
I feel it is time to lighten up and laugh about things and enjoy ourselves a little bit more.
Vicki Lawrence
If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It’s easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
Alan Thicke
About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load.
Alan Thicke
When we’re on set, we kind of joke around, and when we’re rehearsing, we change up the scenes and make each other laugh. We lighten up the mood. The blooper reel is going to be amazing on ‘New Moon.’
Kellan Lutz
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
Quintilian
People tell me I’m doing all these intense women and that I should lighten up. Then I do a comedy that I’m not happy with, and I think, ‘Let’s go back to heavy, heart-breaking drama; it’s so much more fun.’
Isabelle Adjani
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
Robert South
Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.
Allen Klein
I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up.
Debra Winger
Racism is everywhere – the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, ‘She’s darker-skinned; maybe don’t marry her,’ and it’s very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I’m against all of that.
Yuna
More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.
Thomas Traherne
It’s a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned – the sooner the better, I say.
Michael Leunig
The guys who spend their time brooding in their younger years either lighten up or go away.
Mark Lanegan
I don’t think that I’m that easy to live with. I have to be reminded that I can have fun. I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up.
Debra Winger
As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.
Patrick Stewart
I always say that I’ve been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that’s what comes out when you get me on camera.
Martin Scorsese
Once I am out of the ground, I forget cricket or keep it away as far as possible, to lighten up.
Shahid Afridi
Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.
Allen Klein
While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life – Patch Adams – I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
Patch Adams
I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly so

I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh.
Rosamund Pike
There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood.
Julie Brown