Quotes About Balance

When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.

Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my mental health justify the risks.

A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin

To every argument an equal argument is opposed.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.

Compromise in your arguments, not in your expectations.

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.

Spirit first, technique second.

Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.

Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.

The ultimate aim of martial arts is not having to use them

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.

I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.

The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.

Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.