Quotes About Balance

Then again, it seemed my mother was always displeased with all her friends, with me, and even with my father. Something was always missing. Something always needed improving. Something was not in balance. This one or that had too much of one element, not enough of another.

And in my family, there were two pillars of beliefs: Christian faith on my father's side, Chinese fate on my mother's. Picture these two ideologies as you might the goalposts of a soccer field, faith at one end, fate at the other, and me running between them trying to duck whatever dangerous missile had been launched in the air.

Nankingis on lumi nagu kõrge ametnik - ei käi liiga tihti, ei jää liiga kaukas

Too much happiness, said the man who returned, always overflows into tears of sorrow.

Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.

in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time......I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind.....

All I wanted was humor and wisdom.

We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.

The living out in excess kills the imagination and the intensity

I do not need to be a selfless child, or a woman giving to the point of self-annihilation.

Laughter and tears are not separate experiences, with intervals of rest: they rush out together and it is like walking with a sword between your legs.

He observed confusion and chaos, which I call living by one's emotions instead of one's mind.

I am not always just living, just following all my fantasies; I come up for air, for understanding.

Wherever this is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.

It is to nature I want to return, it is my nature I want to accept.

A cambio de fidelidad, yo le doy mi imaginación, e incluso mi talento, si se quiere. Nunca he estado satisfecha de nuestras cuentas, pero han de mantenerse.

I turned away from life to work, to bring the work up to date. This is our time of peace, when one writes music.

The romantic submits to life, the classicist dominates it.

How criminal to expect all life and joy from one human being.

You must not get trapped in humanity and its struggles. You must keep alive your contact with all things, your relationships to all kinds of people. When you are too much invaded by others' discords, when you are driven by scruples or guilt to retrogress in order to help others live, and when they try to crystallize you in one role, you lose your ability to maintain and sustain the flow, you arrest the turning of the bigger wheels, you get caught in the spokes.

I think sometimes that perhaps I have been unfair to put my writing above everything else. I am a man and I want my woman. If writing interferes then to hell with writing.

Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.

I know why familles were created, with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

There is then no sacred or profane, spiritual or sensual, but everything that lives is pure and void.