Quotes About Balance

The one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind.

You must distinguish between what is urgent and what is important. You could accomplish all of the urgent things that you desire without accomplishing anything that is important.

Let the wave of memory, the storm of desire, the fire of emotion pass through without affecting your equanimity.

Let your desires be ruled by reason.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.

Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make itself their ruler. So, it can be called great.

Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

Let reason govern desire.

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.

Really, what I try to instill in my fans is to be healthy and happy. I have no desire to be super-skinny.

In every person, even in such as appear most reckless, there is an inherent desire to attain balance.

The desire for order is the only order in the world.

Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole.

Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.