Quotes About Balance

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful the way you lean.

The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility

Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Talk to the tree, make friends with it.

I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike!

What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.

There is more danger of numerical sequences continued indefinitely than of trees growing up to heaven. Each will some time reach its greatest height.

I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise.

Trees are the largest and most spiritually advanced plants on Earth. They are constantly in meditation. Subtle energy is their natural language.

A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and breathing in and out. How treelike the human, how human the tree.

There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans.

The trees and plants show respect for each other by the way they live in harmony. This also applies to the animal kingdom.

A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.

The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.

Be like a tree in pursuit of your cause. Stand firm, grip hard, thrust upward. Bend to the winds of heaven. And learn tranquility.

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.

I'd like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent.

A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal.

A successful tree pose probably won't change your life. Learning how to keep your breath easy, long, and deep no matter what the circumstance? That absolutely will.