Quotes About Balance

it is a reminder that the sweetness of life comes with bitterness.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection. —Rabindranath Tagore

He alone amongst all the people she knows uses his two ears and one mouth in that exact proportion. She loves him in a way she

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

All I've been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself.

Humans are so strange in the ways that we are either recovering too quickly from something or holding on to pain forever. There seems to be no middle ground. We bounce back or we wallow. But remembering the hardest moments of grief or loss and letting them be present for you in the good moments is something I've found useful and grounding as I age. It feels like a way of remembering that balance does exist. This too. This grief. This joy. Together always intertwined.

One question that I often get asked is how to overcome writer's block. And the funny thing is, I overcome it, by not overcoming it. I think it's okay to not write. I think it's okay not to talk, not to make, not to create, not to produce, produce, produce. How can we listen to the world if we are always talking to the world?

Eating three times a day means taking on, almost without respite, the work of assimilation.

When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last ' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.

people don't entertain you, / Nature will"—is

If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.

Many people who encountered Grant were taken aback by the strength of his commitment and dedication...at the expense of all other aspects of life.

Many people who hold giver values in life choose matching as their primary reciprocity style at work, seeking an even balance of give and take.

Having a sense of security in one realm gives us the freedom to be original in another.

Entrepreneurs who kept their day jobs had 33 percent lower odds of failure than those who quit.

Originality is what everybody wants, but there's a sweet spot," Rob Minkoff explains. "If it's not original enough, it's boring or trite. If it's too original, it may be hard for the audience to understand. The goal is to push the envelope, not tear the envelope.

There are two Great Forces of human nature: Self Interest and Caring for Others, and people are most successful when they are driven by a Hybrid Engine of the two.' If Takers are selfish, and Failed Givers are selfless: Successful Givers are 'otherish' - They care about benefitting others, but they also have ambitious goals for advancing their own interests.

Having a sense of security in one realm gives us the freedom to be original in another. By covering our bases financially, we escape the pressure to publish half-baked books, sell shoddy art, or launch untested businesses. When

Burnout is being overwhelmed by work. Boreout is being underwhelmed by work.

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

Even if we walked this path side by side, we must act alone on the outside, while on the inside, we would be holding hands.

The problem with enemyfying is not that we never have enemies: we often face people and situations that present us with difficulties and dangers. Moreover, any effort we make to effect change in the world will create discomfort, resistance, and opposition. The real problem with enemyfying is that it distracts and unbalances us. We cannot avoid others whom we find challenging, so we need to focus simply on deciding, given these challenges, what we ourselves will do next.

For every great idea, the opposite idea is also true.

After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.