Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

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

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

Outer order contributes to inner calm.

When I find my focus and keep my balance- I find that all is right with my world.

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters.

Disorder brings about order.

I learned how important it is to have a home that's in order - that's peaceful.

The good point is when you combine excitement and calm together.

Everything too fast is not good but everything too slow is also not good. You need balance. That's why I like martial arts: it always tells you how to control your body, your mind, your heart. Balance. Balance can keep the world's peace. I think that's a very good thing.

...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.

There is not secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.

When your breathing is easy and deep, your body works efficiently, and your mind settles. That doesn't mean that your balance (in tree pose or anywhere else) will be perfect and your life will be seamless, but you'll be better equipped to deal with the wobbles and earthquakes that get thrown into the mix.

When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But usually, without being aware of it, we try to change something other than ourselves; we try to order things outside us. But it is impossible to organize things if you yourself are not in order. When you do things in the right way, at the right time, everything else will be organized.

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

The only antidote to chaos is peace itself.

Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned.

A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Love grounds you. It orients you. Love brings your awareness to others and yourself. Love opens your mind and heart to others and yourself. Love settles you and gives you balance.

Peace is not a state - it is a choice, and you have to remake it every day. It's possible to get a sort of stability, a habit of peace, but it's like an egg balanced, spinning, on its point: lose your momentum, and your equilibrium is gone, too.