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Quotes About Balance

Nonaction is, in fact, also action.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
The fifth characteristic of manas is ignoring the law of moderation. Mind consciousness has to remind manas of the wisdom of moderation. With mindful breathing, we can help our mind consciousness to look deeply, to recognize manas with all its delusion, and to realize that there is the seed of wisdom in store consciousness
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
we are joy, but we are also pain; we are understanding, but we are also ignorance
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
A human being is made up of only non-human elements.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
We do not produce mindfulness to chase away or fight our anger but to take good care of it.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
We may spend our lives chasing after wealth, status, influence, and sensual pleasures, thinking they will improve the quality of our life. And yet we end up not having any time left to live.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
If we pollute the water and air, the vegetables and minerals, we destroy ourselves. We have to learn to see ourselves in things that we thought were outside of ourselves in order to dissolve false boundaries.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Making an effort at the wrong time or place dissipates our energy.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Then you can use the positive energy in order to take care of the negative one.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Movies are food for our eyes, ears, and minds. When we watch TV, the program is our food. Children who spend five hours a day watching television are ingesting images that water the negative seeds of craving, fear, anger, and violence in them. We are exposed to so many forms, colors, sounds, smells, tastes, objects of touch, and ideas that are toxic and rob our body and consciousness of their well-being.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
If we don't practice mindfulness, our cravings and sensual desires will overwhelm us.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
We have to learn to become solid and stable like an oak tree, and not be blown from side to side by the storm.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Even with a lot of goodwill, we can still make the other person very unhappy. Mindfulness is the paintbrush in the art of happiness. When we are mindful, we are more artful and happiness blooms
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Do you have enough time to love? Can you make sure that in your everyday life you have a little time to love?
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.
~ Thich Nhat Hanhh
A body needs at least three points of support, not in a straight line, to fix its position, so Roithamer had written.
~ Thomas Bernhard
Nature, not yet polluted by human beings, hence his early rising.
~ Thomas Bernhard
Sometimes we need someone, sometimes no one, and sometimes we need someone and no one.
~ Thomas Bernhard
Whoever can't lough doesn't deserve to be taken seriously
~ Thomas Bernhard
We might summarize our present human situation by the simple statement: that in the 20th century, the glory of the human has become the desolation of the Earth and now the desolation of the Earth is becoming the destiny of the human. From here on, the primary judgment of all human institutions, professions, programs and activities will be determined by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually-enhancing human/Earth relationship.
~ Thomas Berry
Until technologists learn reverence for the earth, there will be no possibility of bringing a healing or a new creative age to the earth.
~ Thomas Berry
An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.
~ Thomas Brooks
The observed outcome may be one that everybody prefers, it may be one that nobody prefers, or it may be one that some prefer and others deplore.
~ Thomas C. Schelling
Entre la rencontre obligatoire du village (l'horreur) et l'anonymat total des mégapoles (l'enfer), Paris est la ville aux proportions justes.
~ Thomas Clerc