Quotes About Balance

Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.

We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.

But one thing the New Age folks and those who pursue alternative spiritual visions need to be aware of is how easily we can become and at times in my experience are like the religious right.

I feel like I always had a yin and yang experience with music. I've always been able to rock out, and then I've always had to take piano lessons, too.

You need your reason to pass through the world and also to experience the nagual, because if you become all nagual, we'll lock you away in an institution.

That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha.

This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.

But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started doing the usual terrible things to him.

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

It's hard to balwnce a career and a family. There's no way to get it right all the time

For balance to be restored, lessons must be learned

That's the way life is sometimes: you can fix things up, but you can't make them all better.

In every moments of life, we're all having up and down.If there are no up or down, it means we didn't have any life.

I need to take everything one step at a time. If I think about that too much, I'll miss this amazing experience.

Haste in every business brings failures.

Formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

Probably, if you are successful in this world you are stressed, and if you are a failure, you are bored!

Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

Success without fulfillment is failure

Me, I say too much optimism will get you killed.

Faith is one foot on the ground, one foot in the air, and a queasy feeling in the stomach.

Don't try and fit your faith into your busy schedule, build your schedule around your faith.

Some people wonder why they can't have faith for healing. They feed their body three hot meals a day, and their spirit one cold snack a week.