Gayle Forman Quotes

I want my fans to understand that what you put into the universe is what you get back.

Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.

Perfect harmony of body and mind are my key to personal balance and happiness.

The key to happiness. Hm.... There are just so many factors. I think it's just a way of being. It's about.... every little thing in moderation. Whether it be stress, anger, joy, depression.

There is no evil without its compensation.

Always remember that there is a law of compensation which operates just as infallibly as gravitation, and that victory goes at last where it ought to, and that this is just as true of individuals as of nations.

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.

Curing the negatives does not produce the positives.

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.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

I would like to reach a balance and forget a few things.

... each action taken in this world has its echo in the heart.

Love is heaven and fear is hell. Where you place your attention is where you live.

Whenever something great happens, you’re always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.

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."

We put the wrong emphasis on what beauty is and what health is. Health is being vibrant and having energy and being happy.

A thing of nature. For every Push, there is a Pull. A consequence.

You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true.

Your world is one of cause and effect.

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!

Balance and good fortune can only come to a person who is balanced and feels fortunate.

So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance.

By that which you kill are you bound.

As the cause is, so the effect will be.

If you realize that the ultimate happiness for all depends not on disorder of the emotions for either sex, but in harmonizing the emotions, all the problems will vanish.