Paula Cole Quotes

People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.

If you have faith, then your whole life is put in a new perspective. You get to work but enjoy the work at the same time. If you grow spiritually, you do what's in front of you and let the results speak for themselves.

Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.

One way of pointing to this realization is, when you think you have big problems, ask yourself, "What problem do I have at this moment?" Usually, you will find that you don't have a problem at this moment because you're sitting here and you're breathing, you're looking out the window, and it's fine.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.

I realize I never stand out in a room unless I'm feeling balanced, centered and happy. It sounds really corny but it's very, very true.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

It's important to feel settled and balanced in life, and that has been tough for me to do.

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

I'm finally locked into the now, and it's great.

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.

Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.

Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who are constantly complaining and finding fault.

I don't pretend to be happy all the time. I think to be human is to be happy and unhappy by turns. But I have a great capacity to enjoy myself, and it seems to grow as I get older.

I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

My soul is fine, thanks.