Quotes About Balance

La vida seria imposible si todo se recordase. El secreto esta en saber elegir lo que debe olvidarse.

Sometimes I've had to put myself on a diet.

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

ashes or diamonds foe or friend we're all equal in the end

everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon

Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've crossed through nothingness or dream to another island in Time.

The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying.

you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it's all a question of balance.

You see, we cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.' He paused, considering what he had just said. 'Yes', he repeated. 'In the end, it's all a question of balance.

the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to look for it.

What sense did the world make? Where was God, the Bloody Fool? Did He have no notion of fair and unfair? Couldn't He read a simple balance sheet? He would have been sacked long ago if He were managing a corporation, the things he allowed to happen...

democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion

Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.

only twenty-four hours in a day. I think

Micronesians changed things inside themselves and let the planet be.

There's nothing wrong with a little fear. Being fearful can save your life-it's saved mine on more than one occasion-but too much fear can stop you from living.

If you get it out of the way, it leaves time for more interesting things," Angela said. "If you don't get it out of the way, then you feel distracted and a little guilty and the interesting things aren't nearly as interesting because you're worrying about what you should be doing rather than what you are doing.

One gram of shit is enough to ruin a kilogram of caviar. One gram of caviar does nothing to improve a kilogram of shit.

The real payoff of a yoga practice, I came to see, is not a perfect handstand or a deeper forward bend—it is the newly born self that each day steps off the yoga mat and back into life.

When nonviolence in speech, thought, and action is established, one's aggressive nature is relinquished and others abandon hostility in one's presence. Yoga Sutras

Oftentimes when we need yoga the most, we want it the least.

On a basic level, there are three general methods to simplifying your life: stopping expansion, reining in your routine, and reducing clutter.

However, a lot of media information—especially day-to-day news—should be approached with a healthy amount of skepticism. This is because so many media outlets (especially television, magazines, and the Internet) are more in the business of competing for your attention than giving you a balanced picture of the world.