Quotes About Balance

Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.

My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.

Where the dance of Meera and the silence of Buddha meet, blossoms the true philosophy of Rajneesh.

Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.

There's no shame in enjoying the quiet life.

Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.'

[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

Martial arts have two parts. One is external, other internal. The external is physical part. The internal is philosophy of how to be, what kind of person learns martial arts.

No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species.

My old man had a philosophy: peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.

I simply think there's life after movies. I have to adhere to this philosophy, and therefore I like other things, and I have other passions. None are as big as movie-making, but they exist.

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.

Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.

There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

My life is perfect because I accept it as it is.

Taoist philosophy is essentially monistic. Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.

The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.

My basic philosophy can be summed up by an expression we use in Norwegian: hurry slowly. Get there, but be patient.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.