#lance

...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying. ↗

— Rohinton Mistry

#balance

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work. ↗

— Imelda Staunton

#admit #balance #both #enriches #i

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

— Toba Beta

#harmony #life

The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught. But what about the benefits of living harmoniously among extremes? What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly incongruous opposites into a worldview that excludes nothing? ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#life #life-lessons #life

It's insane to try to balance the budget. ↗

— William Vickrey

#budget #insane #try

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#areas #balance #being #believe #business

If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went. ↗

— Frank Bruno

#fuse #mind #went #you #your

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#balance #being #compassion #connection #considering

We all drive differently and have different styles. For me I need a car I can develop beneath me and feel comfortable in. If the car feels neutral and unbalanced it doesn't work for me. ↗

— Jenson Button

#car #comfortable #develop #different #different styles

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn. ↗

— David Byrne

#bike #bit #brooklyn #get #i