Cecelia Ahern Quotes

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

There is balance in life, but not fairness.

Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites.

I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

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

Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.

Today, we talk a lot about equality, but I think what most people mean by it is sameness - that everybody is the same - and they are afraid if they are not the same, they are not equal.

Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.

To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

Age helps one to acquire some of the perspectives necessary to create harmony among apparent contradictions.

Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective.

Waight and measure take away strife.

Wouldn't it be nice if everything balanced in the world? If right came out on top and wrong was punished. It sure would be simple.

The secret of grace is that it can be all right at the center even when it is all wrong on the edges.

I think that whatever we encounter in life, we want to encourage a balance between the mind and the soul...and that is to consider about 50% data from the mind and 50% data from the soul. This is what Buddhists call, "the middle way."

There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Through working in harmony with life's circumstances, Taoist understanding changes what others may percieve as negative into something positive.

Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made simple, that complexity reigns and must be accepted.

In fact, I think that's my favorite word and the most important word when it comes to relationships: equality.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.

To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you can get by with. The maximum is the most you're capable of. The optimum is the amount or degree of anything that is most favorable toward the ends you desire.

No need to choose; become choiceless. And whatsoever happens happens; whatsoever happens is good. Let things happen rather than trying to do, and you will be surprised that all ambiguity disappears. It is a by-product of the chooser's mind, the choosing mind, that creates ambiguity. Otherwise there is no dilemma. Negative and positive are perfectly balancing in life.