Quotes About Balance

Wholeness is the goal [of life], but wholeness does not mean perfection. It means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

My life is not only about my strengths and virtues; it is also about my liabilities and my limits, my trespasses and my shadow. An inevitable though often ignored dimension of the quest for "wholeness" is that we must embrace what we dislike or find shameful about ourselves as well as what we are confident and proud of.

The attempt to live by the reality of our own nature, which means our limits as well as our potentials, is a profoundly moral regimen.

A fault line runs down the middle of my life, and whenever it cracks open-divorcing my words and actions from the truth I hold within-things around me get shaky and start to fall apart.

Zen Judaism: For You, a Little Enlightenment

we all live at the intersection of our small worlds and the big one around us. If we want to serve others, we must attend to both.

How, exactly, do we resolve dilemmas that tempt us to choose either this or that and instead hold the tension long enough to let a "third thing" emerge?

In a prose passage on a life in art—without explanation or elaboration, as if the idea had just popped into his head and he had to capture it before it fled—Thoreau drops this simple couplet: My life has been the poem I would have writ But I could not both live and utter it.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. Michael J. Fox

Grate power comes with grate responsibility. so use it wisely.

Sunt gata sa dau totul cui nu cere nimic, dar nu vreau sa cedez nimic cui asteapta totul de la celalalt.

Not every beast needs to be hunted down and killed; some are best left alone to live and die in their part of the forest.

The universe doesn't know good or bad, only less or more.

Urgency is a tiebreaker only between two tasks of equal validity.

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

Darkness and light are inextricably bound together.

Please live a healthy life - medicine is an imperfect science.

A minimum of comfort is necessary for the practice of virtue.

Love and anger are like land and sea: They meet at many different places.

Patricia B. McConnell

Every form correctly seen is beautiful.

Being a martyr is highly overrated.

People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.

I don't get mad, I get even.