Quotes About Balance

Tea reminds us to slow down and escape the pressures of modern life," he says

It's said that great sorrow is no more than a reflection of one's capacity for great joy.

If fire doesn't raze the mountain, the land will not be fertile.

Rice is to nourish," A-ma says. "Tea is to heal. Always remember that food is medicine, and medicine is food. If you take care of the trees, the trees will take care of you.

Every mother must leave her children to work, and every mother suffers, bu we do it.

All things not at peace will cry out.

We may look and act modern in many ways, but we can't escape what we are... obedient chinese daughters.

Every mother must leave her children to work, and every mother suffers, but we do it.

But when people suggested the haenyeo start using oxygen tanks, she, along with other divers around the island, refused. "Everything we do must be natural," she'd told the collective, "otherwise we'll harvest too much, deplete our wet fields, and earn nothing." There, again, balance.

Peony, think of your own feet when you do this. You know how the toes are tucked under and how your mid-foot is folded in on itself? We accomplish this by rolling the bones under the foot as if you were rolling a sock. Can you do that?

When fortune comes, do not enjoy all of it; when advantage comes, do not take all of it

Joy is a delicious luxury that we experience most cautiously, for tragedy conceals itself around every corner.

Yes, she had held her family together, but at what cost to herself.

There is no life without death. This is the true meaning of yin and yang.

Pocos hombres pueden salir adelante sin una mujer, mientras que las mujeres no necesitamos tener a un hombre al lado.

La dicha es un regalo que disfrutamos con cautela ante la certeza de que la tragedia se esconde a la vuelta de la esquina.

Every tree has a soul.

It's said that great sorrow is no more than a reflection of one's capacity for great joy.

What is the difference between justice and revenge? he asked. ... Revenge seeks chaos, he said. Justice seeks balance. That's the difference.

Nobody told you that wen you became a parent, you became a child again; it was early bedtimes and grilled cheese sandwiches for all. Every date night was a negotiation, every invitation that you actually had the desire or energy to accept became a strategic maneuver that may or may not work out after all.

Life is an impossible twist of choice and circumstance. One rarely exists without the other.

There was no undoing the bad without losing the good. That was the trick of it all.

All this time, she'd wondered how she could live knowing what darkness awaited. With Shawn, she realized all of it, light and dark, life and death, was one terrible, beautiful mingle, and that the whole point was to just live well, while you could.

Once a woman has a husband and child, her time, her heart, her desires never quite belong to her again. A blessing some days, a burden others, like all the other gifts that life brings.