Quotes About Balance

What we're doing is projecting excited, emotional energy, which is the furthest from calm-assertive energy that we can get. To a dog, emotional energy is weak and often negative energy. So from the get-go, we're telling the dog that we don't exactly have it all together.

Tutta l'arte è un problema di equilibrio fra due opposti.

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

Si vendica, e bene, la vita, se qualcuno le ruba il mestiere.

Una vigna ben lavorata è come un fisico sano, un corpo che vive, che ha il suo respiro e il suo sudore.

L'ozio rende lente le ore e veloci gli anni. L'operosità rapide le ore e lenti gli anni.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, and the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it." – Cesare Pavese

Shambhala vision teaches that in the face of the world's great problems, we can be heroic and kind at the same time.

The ultimate implication of the words "peace on earth" is to remove altogether the ideas of peace and war and to open yourself equally and completely to the positive and negative aspects of the world.

Discipline may seem complicated, but it is actually very simple—it is what binds your life together. Without discipline, life is made up of successive indulgences and confusions based on aggression, passion, and ignorance.

I was taught that only about 25 percent of your concentration should be put on the breath when you're meditating. This is just a rough estimate, so please don't fixate on the percentage. The point is that in this approach, working with breath is just touching the highlights of the breathing. You don't remain completely one with it all the time.

Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination.

I'm being a dad and a good husband.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.

Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

My boat goes west, your's east. Heaven's a wind for both journeys.

They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is.

Horses and poets should be fed, not overfed.

Iron hand in a velvet glove.