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.
Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things.
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.
We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's load.
I'm not happy if other people aren't enjoying themselves, so I try to lighten the mood as much as I can.
Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.
There are going to be good times and bad times, but lighten up.
When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.
I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up.
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.