Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.

There is nothing wrong with loving your work and wanting to apply yourself to it. But there is so much more to life. Balance is what is important, maintaining balance.

Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He’s not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced....

Everything in balance, everything in moderation – try not to go over the top in any direction but be free to explore & enjoy. Live heart-fully.I’m a writer & philosopher, of course I have the...

In trying to commit my life to finding and participating in some of the purposes of Christ, as I can determine them, my energies and abilities are gradually being focused and are working together.

what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there...

I’m still learning how to be comfortable touring. I haven’t found that balance yet.

So it is with the mind, Nandini. Allow it to be in balance. Avoid extremes: the middle way is better. Neither force the mind too hard into concentration nor let it wander aimlessly. Meditation is...

To light a candle is to cast a shadow…

Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience this problem differently?

The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cyprus. But the E.U. has not carried through on its promise.

An affirmation a day, keeps our negative thoughts away! Affirmations are our mental vitamins – words with power. They provide the exquisite supplementary positive thoughts to enhance and balance the barrage of negative events and...

There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are...

What music does to me, it helps me balance my inner pressure so that I can deal with the forces outside that are trying to pressure me.

There is nothing that I so greatly admire as purposefulness. I have an enormous respect for people who know exactly what they are doing and where they are going. Such people are compact and integrated....

Your relationships with others are always a direct reflection of the relationship you have with yourself.

If you think too much heaven within your mind,you may have no time for simple things in this life.

Life is a playground and a laboratory; avoid neglecting one for the other.

If we don’t control our schedule – our schedule will control us. If we don’t find a way to live a balanced life -our lives will get out of balance.

The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or,...

Accept the fullness in life’s balance, which demands that there are positive gifts along with adversity.

Satire’s nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

Trust means there is no question.If there is no question then no need for any answer,which means complete balance.Always keep in your mind trust is the base for any kind of relationship.

The universe maintained a balance, moving first one way and then the other in a forever equalizing of opposites.

Once, there were no predators, no prey. Only harmony. There were no quakes, no storms, everything in balance. In the beginning, time was all at once and forever — no past, present, and future, no...

He who is in harmony with the Taois like a newborn child.Its bones are soft, its muscles are weak,but its grip is powerful.It doesn’t know about the unionof male and female,yet its penis can stand...

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and the world. It looks at things objectively (yathābhūtam). It does...

Balance: a dance with how and when.

Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.

the chase for more, and the need to be recognised through our achievements and belongings, can hinder us from the real things, like time with those we love, time doing things we love ourselves, and...

My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.

Freedom without discipline is foolish, discipline without freedom is insanity.

She’d made life poignant for the Irish. The terror she inspired gave peace its serenity; the pain she caused gave health its lustre; her failure to love made me grateful for my ability to do...

A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.

Addiction to anything show signs of emptiness.Being an imbalanced individual is not sign of success.

The rough must always accompany the smooth. Without one or the other one learns nothing about oneself.

Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their...

Whenever you can’t balance what you see with what you believe you have conflict.

I never want readers to be comfortable, to feel like we’re in a comedy or a drama. Life is never just one of those things. Life is a balance of all those things.

Life blossoms when it is in a state of harmony and balance.

Before that night, I didn’t grasp that the shadows that sometimes crossed her face weren’t momentary clouds passing in front of the sun. Her deep silences were more than daydreams. And her habit of standing...

This book tells my story. I’m writing it in Ireland, in a house on a hillside. The house sits low in the landscape between a holy well and the site of an Iron Age dwelling....

Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.

Silence can bring us into alignment with our thoughts and feelings and help us to hear the quiet spiritual voice of our intuition.

Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible, distant because of his demonstrated flawlessness, and possessing such strength of...

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Life runs in a narrow path to balancing act, convincing tact, and satisfying fact.

The universe, they say, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty, and bloody-mindedness.

There is a law of opposition apparent in all life which guarantees balance and fullness.