Balance
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"Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul." William Hazlitt
"No matter that we may mount on stilts, we still must walk on our own legs. And on the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom." Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)
"The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other." Arthur Rubenstein
"The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard." Sloan Wilson [May 02, 2011
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"To be 'on edge,' you are literally not centered - not being in your spiritual center." Carrie Latet
"When you can do anything as though you work at nothing you have the best days of your life." Karen Maezan Miller, Momma Zen
"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out." Ray Bradbury
"Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one's balance in spite of them." Carl von Clausewitz, 1780 - 1831 [May 19, 2010
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"The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one." Wallace D. Wattles
"Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality." Pema Chodron
" We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance." Paul Boese
"The ultimate challenge in life is to neither allow our fantasies to bring us too much suffering nor to prevent us from living fully." Earon Davis
"If your body is tired, seek out some fluidly moving part of nature: a fireplace, a river, a field of wind-blown wheat, a thundering surf. Watching and listening to the patterned disorder of the universe is one of the deep soul's favorite pastimes." Martha Beck, The Joy Diet
"A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life." William Arthur Ward
"Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself." Jessye Norman
"To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections." Dogen Zenji
"Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves." Edwin Way Teale
"Tolerance is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle." Helen Keller
"Though dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts,
they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart." Fiona Apple
"Our greatest danger in life is in permitting the urgent to crowd out the important." Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is." Leonardo da Vinci
“Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in
sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.” Leonardo DaVinci
A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the whole universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it. Corita Kent [May 03, 2005
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“Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.” Charles Dudley Warner, editor and author (1829-1900)
“Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life. Take your heart to work, and ask the most and best of everybody else too. Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth -- don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.” Meryl Streep
“The trick to juggling is determining which balls are made of rubber and which ones are made of glass.” anonymous |
