Thomas Gray Quotes

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

When a person listens to a good song, and they can look out at the world and their lives and see the dark and the light, the negative and the positive, all the different elements, all come together in one holistic poem, that is a very healing and very reductive thing, and that's what my music is about.

Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.

Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.

You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband or wife very passionately and have a balance in your life. I live by balance.

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

It's like life: you have both comedy and drama. There's a balance, and I'm lucky enough to have it in my work.

I think life is all about having a balance, and trying to find equilibrium and not getting things one way or the other.

There is not secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.

I see now how things even up, how they are squared away, and how they balance under the law of love and justice. No year of life is emotionally, spiritually or even materially, all drought or all rainfall; nor is it all sun. The road turns a little every day, and one day there's a sudden twist we didn't dream was there, and for every loss there is somewhere a gain, for every grief a happiness, for every deprivation a giving.

Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one the other disappears.

It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.

Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear.

The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play.

This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other.

Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony.

Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.

If you realize that the ultimate happiness for all depends not on disorder of the emotions for either sex, but in harmonizing the emotions, all the problems will vanish.

I think everything in life is a balance.

Well, for me, it's the relationship between comedy and life - that's the edge I live on, and maybe it's my protection against looking at the tragedy of it all. It's seeing life in balance. Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that anything can be funny, if seen from a comedic point of view.

The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self-assertive humble. But life at it's best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.

A balanced and skillful approach to life, taking care to avoid extremes, becomes a very important factor in conducting one's everyday existence.