Paula Cole Quotes

In this life, we are in a constant search for inner peace. We long for it in all aspects of our lives, both personally and professionally. The truth is that we cannot have inner peace without balance. It seems that having too much or too little of anything completely throws off our balance, therefore limiting our inner peace.

I feel, in my life, in any situation I've been in, I've always been sort of in the middle.

The older I get, the more relaxed I am.

I've found that balance is key. I'm no longer an extremist in any one direction.

There are a lot of things that I love, but if you're just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over... So the trick is finding out how to maintain your balance when you're in situations with the people who make you happy and when you're not.

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

I'm always a little happier if the court stays somewhat in the center.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

You want to stay even-keel. When you get too high, when you get too low, that's when things tend to go wrong.

Never get too high; never get too low.

To be just without being mad (and the madder you get the madder you get), to be peaceful without being stupid, to be interested without being compulsive, to be happy without being hysterical... smoke grass.

The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.

Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy, you must be reasonable, or you must be tamed. You must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world and what things in it can really serve you. To be happy, you must be wise.

My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.

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

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

As I've gotten older, I've really wanted to find more balance and calm.

Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.

Everything in moderation, and there's a perfect balance in this life if we can find it.

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.

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.