Eleanor Catton Quotes

I've gotten my personal life all the way intact and made sure that it's straight. Without that, you have no foundation. Your building is going to crumble.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

Find a balance between head and heart.

If you are centered, you can move freely.

Mind and intuition are at opposite ends of the same continuum and our goal is to strike a healthy balance between the two.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give; no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane.

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily

Sometimes you're not like the person you'd want to hang out with. Would I really want to hang out with me full time? No, you've gotta find people who balance you out.

It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.

I think astrology is annoying bullshit-which is so Libra of me

Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.

We can live a life full and complete, thinking with our heads but living from our hearts.

In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.

Consult the wisdom of your heart as well as your mind.

I've always had a sense of groundedness as a person. I think that's helped me. My mother sort of beat into me the notion of humility, and I think my focus has always been on the right things or the things that I'm passionate about, which is just simply the work.

If I can make you unhappy, then I can make you happy as well.

Knowing when someone's the real deal or not, but still with putting your guard up and self-protecting, you've got to stay open. It comes back to balance.

The dependant who cultivates delicacy in himself very little consults his own tranquillity.

Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making.

Man can be happy and safe only when the heart feels faster than the mind thinks.

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.