Quotes About Balance

The Chinese say that the longest journey begins with the first step, and in many philosophical systems endings and beginnings are connected; as in the concept of yin and yang, two concentric circles joined together, forever united, forever opposed. If you can find a way to illustrate this in your screenplay, it is to your advantage.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them

The man who can best gets along with women, is the man who can get along without them.

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.

Effort, concentration, and mindfulness are the internal ways in which the mind restores itself from being out of balance and lost in confusion to a condition of ease, clarity, and wisdom NO external action needs to happen. [p. 17]

Buddha also said that the Dharma, like a bird, needs two wings to fly, and that the wing that balances Wisdom is compassion.

If a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove—Cheyenne

When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard—Lakota

Everything the power does, it does in a circle. –Lakota

If everyone doesn't win, it's empty and useless.

It could not always be love in the afternoon and passion in the night, gifts given, notes written, meals fed to each other. It can't all be like that.

It's a full time job with a part-time companion.

You've got to have as many good times as bad, or it all becomes too painful and too much work.

If I was any more pleased with you, I would lose what little remains of my sanity.

That compromise means you don't always have to be the strong one, Gideon. You can do the heavy lifting on occasion, and you can let Eva do it sometimes. Marriage isn't about whether you're strong enough as an individual. It's about how strong you are together and the luxury of taking turns carrying the load.

Sometimes you'll lead, sometimes you'll follow. Expect you'll grumble about the following part for a while yet.

I knew I was high maintenance and he was obviously going to be the same

If you're on your back, you're not on your feet!

That was why we were going to get past this and every other hurdle we faced: We would always meet each other halfway. She

I can't just give up my life for you. If I turn into arm candy, you'll get bored real quick. Hell, I'd get sick of myself. It shouldn't kill us to spend a couple days straightening out other parts of our lives, even if we hate doing it." His gaze captured mine. "You're too much trouble to be arm candy." "Takes a troublemaker to know one.

Tienes que tener tantos buenos ratos como malos; si no, todo se vuelve muy complicado y doloroso.

You've got to have as many good times as bad, or it all becomes too painful and too much work.

If you're going to give him a second chance, I should get one, too.

Since the result is the same either way, I choose the path of least disruption