Quotes About Balance

That there were more ways than just two, wider possibilities than hidden or betrayed, stalled or brokenhearted, male or female, right or wrong. Middle ways. Ways beyond.

One is the loneliest number. Never put all your eggs in one basket.

It wasn't so much that she and Penn set out to practice Zen marriage equality and perfect-balance parenting. It was just that there was way more to do than two could manage, but by their both filling every spare moment, some of what needed to got done.

ispelling fear. Taming what was scary not by hiding it, not by blocking it or burying it, not by keeping it secret, but by reminding themselves, and everyone else, to choose love, choose openness, to think and be calm. That there were more ways than just two, wider possibilities than hidden or betrayed, stalled or brokenhearted, male or female, right or wrong. Middle ways. Ways beyond.

Taming what was scary not by hiding it, not by blocking it or burying it, not by keeping it secret, but by reminding themselves, and everyone else, to choose love, choose openness, to think and be calm. That there were more ways than just two, wider possibilities than hidden or betrayed, stalled or brokenhearted, male or female, right or wrong. Middle ways. Ways beyond.

If you give all your worry to one thing, soon you'll realize that's way too much and worry about it less, and you'll feel more in control of it for keeping it at the front of your mind, and that will help you worry less

We'll never escape the limits of the ecosystem. We are caught in the food chain, whether we like it or not, eating and being eaten.

What a maddening life it is, to be committed to a way of living while also remaining open to all possibilities.

To my students, I say this: one day each of you will be confronted by a decision that requires you to put the needs of the land above your own need to be right. Until you can accept that humiliation, you cannot be a Truthken.

Mother Earth is always giving, even if it's a lesson. She is always giving." –Tiokasin Ghosthorse

Where are you?' 'I am between the light and the waves.

Out here on the water, it's a fine line between feeling in control and losing it altogether.

The human psyche is a self-correcting mechanism.

but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

La pierre voudrait se soustraire aux lois de la pesanteur ? Impossible. Impossible, si le mal voulait s'allier avec le bien.

Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.

He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly.

The friend of order has made half his way to virtue.

Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.

Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him least who is indifferent about all.

Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.

The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.

Who will sacrifice nothing, and enjoy all, is a fool.

Avoid the eye that discovers with rapidity the bad, and is slow to see the good.