Quotes About Balance

I think that the difference between a tormented creative life and a tranquil creative life is nothing more than the difference between the word awful and the word interesting.

We don't have time for perfect. In any event, perfection is unachievable.

But if your calling is to make things, then you still have to make things in order to live out your highest creative potential—and also in order to remain sane.

Like a dog, I have pack needs; like a cat, he prefers a quieter house. As long as he is married to me, his house will never be quiet.

Žmogus-nei diev? marionet?, nei savo likimo šeimininkas. Jis turi truput? ir vieno, ir kito. Per gyvenim? mes šuoliuojame lyg cirko artistai, raiti ant dviej? šalia lekian?i? arkli?: viena koja - ant vieno arklio, vadinamo likimu, kita - ant arklio, vadinamo laisva valia. Kiekvien? dien? reikia klausti, kuris arklys likimas, o kuris - laisva valia, d?l kurio arklio nereikia jaudintis, o kur? turi paspausti.

Everyone is sorry. It's good to be sorry—but don't make a fetish of it.

The other day in prayer I said to God, Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?.

While it's lovely to be childlike in your pursuit of creativity, in other words, it's dangerous to be childish.

repeatedly give up their own health or their own time or their own best interests on behalf of what they perceive as the greater good—perhaps in order to consistently reinforce an imperative sense of specialness, of chosenness, of connection.

un cierto grado de desapego inteligente puede ser un valioso instrumento de paz en esta vida.

So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it's also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun.

The writer Rebecca Solnit puts it well: "So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it's also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun." Perfectionism

Well, you can't have too much conscience about things!" said Gladys. "Or else you'll never stop worrying!" And that, I'm afraid, was the extent of our moral agonies. Subject closed.

Cease partiicipation, if only for one day this year --- if only to make sure that we don't lose forever the rare and vanishing human talent of appreciating ease.

You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have four legs, instead of two. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God.

After all, he says, "beauty attracts beauty.

I do not know of any creative soul who does not dream of calm, cool, grass-growing days in which to work without interruption

To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have 4 legs instead of 2. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God.

No hay ciudad que pueda vivir pacíficamente, sean cuales sean sus leyes», escribió Platón, «si sus habitantes sólo saben divertirse y beber y consumirse en la práctica del amor».

Estar con cuatro pies en la tierra, una cabeza hecha de follaje, mirando el mundo con el corazón.

How do you negotiate once you've offered everything?

We don't have time for perfect.

there are always two figures in a marriage, after all-two votes, two opinions, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.

Galopamos por la vida como artistas de circo que se bambolean precariamente a lomos de dos veloces caballos; un pie va sobre el caballo llamado Destino y el otro, sobre el caballo llamado Libre Albedrío.