Quotes About Balance

Women: We are busy wearing so many hats in life we deserve to have all the shoes we want.

Beware the hobby that eats.

Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind.

Work is for people who don't know how to fish.

Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.

Think with your whole body.

Everything in the universe is connected Everything is osmosis You cannot separate any part from the whole Interdependence rules the cosmic order.

La vie et la mort sont identiques.

Knowledge may hinder. Ignorance may liberate. Knowing when to know and when not to know, this is as important as a fluent blade. SUZUME–NO–KUMO (1434)

El conocimiento puede ser un freno. La ignorancia puede liberar. Saber cuándo saber y cuándo no saber es tan importante como un acero bien templado. Suzume-no-kumo, 1434

Good and evil are indeed not two.

The sages say happiness and sorrow are one. Is this because in finding the first, we also find the second?

We live in a world of myriad conflicting loyalties. It is not purity, but the nature of the balance we achieve that displays our true character.

Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise.

Beauty isn't something on the outside. It's your insides that count! You gotta eat green stuff to make sure you're pretty on the inside.

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!

There is no light for those who do not know darkness.

Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest.

Completely forget about the mind and you will do all things well

If you follow the present-day world, you will turn your back on the Way; if you would not turn your back on the Way, do not follow the world.

If the mind congeals in one place and remains with one thing, it is like frozen water and is unable to be used freely: ice that can wash neither hands nor feet. When the mind is melted and is used like water, extending throughout the body, it can be sent wherever one wants to send it.

Life is too short to be in a hurry." If we are always on the go, we are reacting to the exigencies of day-to-day life rather than allowing ourselves the space to create a happy life.

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.