Quotes about Balance

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

If we are too busy, if we are carried away every day by our projects, our uncertainty, our craving, how can we have the time to stop and look deeply into the situation-our own situation, the situation of our beloved one, the situation of our family and of our community, and the situation of our nation and of the other nations?

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.

We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

Advise the ruler to govern the state as one cooks a small fish - that is, don't turn it so often in the pan that it disintegrates

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.

So don't study and swot too much, for that makes one sterile. Enjoy yourself too much rather than too little, and don't take art or love too seriously- there is very little one can do about it

People who do nothing but fall in love are perhaps more serious and saintly than those who sacrifice their love and their hearts to an idea.

You can not gain peace by avoiding life.

I am rooted, but I flow.