Tim Duncan Quotes

I realised that you can go through times of extreme happiness, but if that happiness is not coming from a deeply rooted place, you will also be going through extreme lows of sadness.

I try not to get too high off the highs or too low off the lows.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you're depressed. Will you ever feel ok?

I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

When I'm up, I'm over-exuberant; when I'm down, I just wander round on my own. I have no middle space.

You have to deal with your emotions and not spike too much on the graph - not get too elated with the highs or too down with the lows.

I do have mood swings which can go into extremes.

A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.

Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion. They are victims of their habits and emotions. But you can make your home a place of peace.

There is this view that if you are not tormented you cannot be vital and creative. I would like to think that is not true.

My life is so tumultuous. I dive into everything. I'm feeling all up and down and sleepy and moody and hormonal - it just gets crazy. Just to keep myself balanced, I do things like yoga and meditation.

Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness.

It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave.

Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither up nor down, but upness and downness flow through it while it remains unmoved. You had to be the centre of the seesaw so the pain flowed through you, not into you. It was very hard. But she could do it!

Deep connection is the antidote to madness.

I am even-tempered and emotionally well balanced

It's true in life, as in the movies, that the greatest highs are often followed by the lowest lows.

Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.

A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad.... Only meditation can save him from becoming mad.

The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.

One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with immoderate cares.

The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there.