Quotes About Balance

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you ought to set up a life you don't need to escape from.

You can't sprint every day, but it's probably a good idea to sprint regularly. It keeps the resistance at bay.

Lean in, back off, but don't do nothing.

If you are using outcomes that are out of your control as fuel for your work, it's inevitable that you will burn out. Because it's not fuel you can replenish, and it's not fuel that burns without a residue.

The problem is obvious—if you spend all day hitting the ball back, you'll never end up serving.

If everyone tries to lead all the time, not much happens.

161. Chop Wood and Carry Water Layman Pang, more than a thousand years ago, wrote: My daily activities are not unusual, I'm just naturally in harmony with them. Grasping nothing, discarding nothing . . . Drawing water and chopping wood.

Women may fail when there is no strength in man

The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you're always giving interviews

Sometimes you have to fight for the past and sometimes you have to let go.

Is there such a thing as being too happy?

I think Mr. Robert Frost has a little too much time on his hands.

Whilst stupidity may indeed be a sin, it is also possible to be too clever. I sometimes fear, John, that you are too clever by half.

Those who served both the Almighty and secular lords did their best to follow Jesus's teachings and render unto Caesar the things which were Caesar's, and unto God the things that were God's, all the while praying they'd never have to choose between the two.

Well, dearest, what would you tell a farmer who had an over-abundant harvest? To plant less, of course!... I am not complaining about the frequency of the planting, she said. I'd just rather not reap a crop every year.

And it is not in any of our interests to have the balance of power turned on its head like this. An overly mighty French king is no improvement over an overly mighty English one.

Every time you get the world by the tail, she thought, you gotta remember there's teeth on the other end.

let's part equals, as we were in every bed, pure equals of the earth

Let the breath lead the way.

Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.

We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

You may have heard the old story, usually attributed to a Native American elder, meant to illuminate the power of attention. A grandfather (occasionally it's a grandmother) imparting a life lesson to his grandson tells him, I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is vengeful, fearful, envious, resentful, deceitful. The other wolf is loving, compassionate, generous, truthful, and serene. The grandson asks which wolf will win the fight. The grandfather answers, The one I feed.

Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness is that it enables us to hold difficult thoughts and feelings in a different way—with awareness, balance, and love