Balance Quotes

I suspect that 'Kindness and Cruelty' and 'Mercy and Justice' all have secret affairs, as though they rendezvous only within certain sophisticated souls: those who hate being offensive, but love telling the truth.

~ Criss Jami

Dance your Soulful path / and you shall know the magic / of your mind & heart / and all the beauty laughing / to fill your rising self.

~ Jay Woodman

You can Transform into a Super-Soul! If you align your physical and mental (logical/emotional) self with your core self (or soul being), then you will know your personal path, and find ways to follow it to fulfillment. You can learn how to best nurture your body, plus train your mind as an empowering tool to enhance your overall balance, strength, and unique skills, so that you achieve your goals, as well as optimise your well-being.

~ Jay Woodman

So she quit working to make sense of things— we don’t realise it, but it’s hard work we do almost every waking moment, building out thoughts and memories and actions around time, things that happened yesterday, and things that are happening right now, and what’s coming tomorrow, layering all of that simultaneously and holding it in balance.

~ Helen Oyeyemi

The Conditioned Mind / shuts off magical vision and gnosis / gives up freedom, truth, real choices / loses sight of love, trust, and social coherence / loses touch with organic life, gives way to interference // risks personal wellbeing, peace of heart, balance of mind / is tricked into believing we need power, money, lies / and people to lead us by the nose into violence and war / is hypnotised, drugged, poisoned, misinformed.

~ Jay Woodman

DETOX your mind, body, AND your contact list.

~ Supanova Slom

When we change our thoughts, we will change our experiences.

~ Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

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 pay attention, to be aware of your breathing, your posture, your feelings, your perceptions, your thoughts, and all that passes through your mind and the mind itself; whatever is going on within you and between you and the universe. Meditation is not just sitting for an hour here or an hour there; meditation is a way of life. It is practiced all the time. There is no separation between meditation and everyday living. When you have ceased to be bound by the past or by the future, when you are fully present in the here and now, then it is meditation.

~ Satish Kumar

Suspense was an excellent tool for keeping powerful people off balance. It gave one bargaining power.

~ Robin Hobb

You have been given a great power. But no power comes without a price. That is how magic works. How the universe works. All things kept in balance.

~ Mindee Arnett

When you have passion, you don't need coffee.

~ Rob Liano

You kill by consent, every time you let something… pervert the balance when you have the power to stop it.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained, the vaster the appetite for more.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

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

~ Terry Pratchett

The feminine way is to look at the potential that is available and the masculine way is to look at what is not working and to find a solution to change that. So when we balance these two energies together, the solution is to co-create a New Earth together with Nature where we look at the potential of each and everyone involved to make a difference.

~ Maurice Spees

The world to have a balance first it needs one liar and one guy who can discover who is lieing. That's called balance!

~ Deyth Banger

The world should have balance between evil and good, positive and negative. If one is missed there isn't balance.

~ Deyth Banger

Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this order can ever be lost, that confusion, error and darkness can win the day only apparently and in a purely ephemeral way, that all partial and transitory disequilibrium must perforce contribute towards the greater equilibrium of the whole, and that nothing can ultimately prevail against the power of truth.

~ René Guénon

Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn't I be allowed the other half to howl at the moon and pillage the groins of Europe's great beauties?

~ Roman Payne

When you can't escape your mind then God is telling your heart to catch up. Fight for the balance you need.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Amazing how too much passion in one part of your life can destroy passion in other parts of your life.

~ Clifford Cohen

Understanding the world too well, you see too many options and become as indecisive as Hamlet.No matter how far we progress, we remain part animal, and it is the animal in us that fires our strategies, gives them life, animates us to fight. Without the desire to fight, without a capacity for the violence war churns up, we cannot deal with danger.The prudent Odysseus types are comfortable with both sides of their nature. They plan ahead as best they can, see far and wide, but when it comes time to move ahead, they move. Knowing how to control your emotions means not repressing them completely but using them to their best effect.

~ Robert Greene

The supreme hallmark of reality is balance.

~ Bryant Mcgill

My first impression of [Patricia Highsmith] was a loneliness, a sadness in one so young (we were both in our early thirties) with absolutely no sense of joy or balance. Gauche to an extreme, really physically clumsy as well as boyish, it was almost impossible to put her at ease. It was as if she felt a deep distrust of everything.

~ Patricia Schartle

Of all the variables in your life, your relationships may hold the greatest power to make you either happy or miserable

~ Shane Eric Mathias

Of all the variables in your life, your relationships may hold the greatest power to make you happy or miserable

~ Shane Eric Mathias

Most people are about as happy as their self confidence will allow them to be.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I am afraid I am going to drift into fiction, truthful but incomplete, for lack of some details which I cannot conjure up today and which might have enlightened us. This morning, the idea of the egg came again to my mind and I thought that I could use it as a crystal to look at Madrid in those days of July and August 1940—for why should it not enclose my own experiences as well as the past and future history of the Universe? The egg is the macrocosm and the microcosm, the dividing line between the Big and the Small which makes it impossible to see the whole. To possess a telescope without its other essential half—the microscope—seems to me a symbol of the darkest incomprehension. The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.

~ Leonora Carrington

The only real purpose of time is to escort humanity in and out of this mortal coil in an orderly fashion.

~ Charles Stoll

I'm not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now - have we simply swapped one set of restrictions for another?

~ Sara Sheridan

I am not always just living, just following all my fantasies; I come up for air, for understanding.

~ Anaïs Nin

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

~ Shannon L. Alder

We have an internal check and balance system. By design we are so filled with possibility, opportunity, with greatness that when we live small, within the bottom of our capability, we innately know we should be living greater than that, and it creates a disconnect inside that leads us to feeling empty, unhappy, maybe even depressed.

~ Steve Maraboli

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

~ Sereda Aleta Dailey

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.

~ William Osler

In the quest for a functional and direct interaction between imagination and reality, and the evolution of them both, there is in place a natural resistance, which I have referred to as Creative Resistance, because it demands just that: creativity. Much of this calls for redefining, or refining, one’s relationship with time, and all the qualities and skills that will only come from engaging time more creatively and effectively. As such, part of the bargain is about acquiescing to a rhythm that is subtler and has more definite purpose to it than one’s subjective preferences.

~ Darrell Calkins

Every creative force has an equal power to destroy.

~ Curtis Bill Pepper

Worry does not keep it from raining tomorrow, but it does keep it from being sunny today.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Life's all about balance. To move on in life you have to strike a balance between your past, present, and your future; you may either be jerked off or left behind.

~ Richmond Akhigbe

The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning.

~ Peter Høeg