Quotes About Balance

The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.

An emotional debt is hard to square.

Things that accord in tone vibrate together. Things that have affinity in their inmost natures seek one another. Water flows to what is wet, fire turns to what is dry. Clouds (the breath of heaven) follow the dragon, wind (the breath of earth) follows the tiger. . . What is born of heaven feels related to what is above. What is born of earth feels related to what is below. Each follows its kind.

Ser humano y mujer, ni más ni menos.

TÚ quieta, aunque el trapecio todavía se mueva y te delate.

I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.

My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.

As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.

My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.

Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.

No practice exists in isolation.

Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

Life: sometimes the man on the saddle, sometimes the saddle on the man.

Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy.

When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoe As he does for a polished mirror for the King.

Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together

You may be able to get the bone down your throat But if it reaches your stomach it will tear your navel. (Gulistan)

Too much kindness towards the fox may mean doom for the rabbit.