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.

If you commit to giving more time than you have to spend, you will constantly be running from time debt collectors.

Life seems so am/pm. But really it’s not as balanced as all that.

To make the world. To make it again and again. To make it in the very maelstrom of its undoing.

Embrace the weather, child, and you’ll understand the balance of the world.

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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.

Compassion: a robust dance between grace and wisdom.

Your attachment to unhealthy people and bad habits, which offer you no real control, is why you’re spiritually dying and living a life out of balance.

When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of...

I’ve dropped a few of those glass balls in my day. Sometimes they chip, sometimes they shatter to pieces.

Balance hangs in the fingers of Peace

Balance is of the essence,’ she said. ‘That appies to all good, harmonious relationships. Balance in guilt, balance in shame and pangs of conscience.

My funeral,” the Blue Man said. “Look at the mourners. Some did not even know me well, yet they came. Why? Did you ever wonder? Why people gather when others die? Why people feel they...

Balance how much you give of youself, including volunteer activities.You won’t do anyone any good you are stretched too thin.

Whenever a time arises where clarity is desired, it is always wise to reflect on the sage within.

The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great...

proved” by conformity. They teach others that having a voice is a sign of courage, and they will not stay silent to make people feel comfortable. They are fearless and will do whatever it takes...

The fullness of life’s balancing grace will demand the symmetry of recompense for all your loss and pain.

I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.

If you examine your motive for doing anything, you’ll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.

I want to caution you against the idea that balance has to be a routine that looks the same week in and week out.

The act of speaking our intentions aloud shifts them from wishful thinking into action.