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Quotes About Balance

If a mother identifies with every fall of her child and takes personal pride in its every success, her self-image will be as unstable as her child's balance. She finds stability when she realizes that she is not her child, and watches it with love and interest—but as a separate being.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
Support and encourage your Self 2, knowing that the stronger it gets, the more it will take to throw you off balance, and the quicker you can regain your balance.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
Focus means not dwelling on the past, either on mistakes or glories; it means not being so caught up in the future, either its fears or its dreams, that my full attention is taken from the present. The
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
Freedom from stress does not necessarily involve giving up anything, but rather being able to let go of anything, when necessary, and know that one will still be all right. It comes from being more independent—not necessarily more solitary, but more reliant on one's own inner resources for stability.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
Cele trei componente stabile ale muncii lor: performanta, invatarea si bucuria. [...] Cele trei componente ale muncii sunt interdependente. Daca, in stradania de a avea performanta, componenta de invatare este ignorata, performanta va scadea inevitabil sau se va opri la un anumit nivel. La fel, daca bucuria lipseste din ecuatia muncii, atat invatarea, cat si eprformanta vor avea de suferit.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, and adjustment which forms the secret of civilisation.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
~ Langston Hughes
I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.
~ lanier jaron
If you're severely overstressed or fatigued, the best thing to do is get off the highway, stop for dinner, a stroll or a nap.
~ lanoil georgia
Find the shortest, simplest way between the earth, the hands and the mouth.
~ Lanza Del Vasto
He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.
~ Lao Tzu
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still
~ Lao Tzu
He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.
~ Lao Tzu
A foolish man is always doing,Yet much remains to be done.
~ Lao Tzu
Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.
~ Lao Tzu
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
~ Lao Tzu
The feminine values are the fountain of bliss. Know the masculine, Keep to the feminine.
~ Lao Tzu
Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.
~ Lao Tzu
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.
~ Lao Tzu
To yield is to be preserved whole.To be bent is to become straight.To be empty is to be full.To be worn out is to be renewed.To have little is to possess.To have plenty is to be perplexed.
~ Lao Tzu
The best fighter is never angry.
~ Lao Tzu
Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.Reversion is the action of Tao.Weakness is the function of Tao.All things in the world come from being.And being comes from non-being.
~ Lao Tzu
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
~ Lao Tzu
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
~ Lao Tzu