Quotes About Balance

It had great joy and great sadness and the ability to accept both and be content.

Scientists might appear rational, but they were in fact completely at the mercy of their emotions. Because most never learned to face them.

But when does the lifeboat become the prison ship? When does the drug start working against you? Had her beloved, gentle, wounded husband escaped too far?

Stop fighting battles that don't exist. Focus on what does. And don't take it all on yourself.

I have no ideology beyond finding and defending that spot between freedom and safety.

One was grey, the other black. The gray one wanted his grandfather to be corageous, and patient, and kind. The other, the black one, wanted his grandfather to be fearful and cruel. this upset the boy and he thought aboutit for a few days the returned to his grandfather. He asked, "Grandfather, which of the wolves will win?" ... "The one I feed

There's a fine line between noble perseverance and insanity,

Only in the winter was it possible to see both the forest and the trees.

He'd learned that from his mother. She'd taught him that order was freedom. To live in chaos was to live in a prison. Order freed the mind for other things.

A man naturally given to action, Jean-Guy had come late to the value of pausing. "It is solved by walking," Gamache had often said. In the middle of a stressful case, the Chief would leave his office, and instead of doing something, he'd go for a walk.

I see you know your art. Yes. Not many realize that it's the play of light and dark, of subtleties and extremes—

His body spoke of meals enjoyed and a life of long walks rather than contact sports.

The mind is its own place, can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven,

circling the green. She

Life can be cruel, as you know. But it can also be kind. Filled with wonders. You need to remember that. You have your own choice to make, Armand. What're you going to focus on? What's unfair, or all the wonderful things that happen? Both are true, both are real. Both need to be accepted. But which carries more weight with you? . . . The terrible or the wonderful? The goodness or the cruelty? Your life will be decided by that choice.

This isn't inaction, this is simply a deep breath.

Everything. And I don't just mean in business. As humans, we invest not just money. We spend time. We spend effort. There's a reason it's put like that. Life's short, and time is precious and limited. We need to pick and choose where to put it.

Some cracks let the light in. Some let the darkness out.

Equanimity and indifference. I think that's the worst of the near enemies, the most corrosive. Equanimity is balance. When something overwhelming happens in our lives we feel it strongly but we also have an ability to overcome it.

That was why she was happy. He now knew that happiness and kindness went together. There was not one without the other. For Jean-Guy it was a struggle. For Annie it seemed natural.

Give bad news swiftly, and spread out the good news. Machiavelli.

Spare time, as I used to understand it, was the time left over from doing the necessary, unpleasant things, like correcting Sophomore English themes or washing out silk stockings in the bathroom. It was the time i frittered away on useless, entertaining pursuits, like the movies or contract bridge. Now almost everything I do - except cooking- is fun, and it is also useful. There is no line of demarcation between work and play. It makes it hard to explain what I do with my spare time.

The Art of Coorie shows it is possible to be sumptuous and simple at the same time.

Always Follow your heart.....but take your brains with you