Finding Equilibrium Quotes

Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.

I jump from one thing to the next but try and strike a balance. But it's not nostalgic in the sense of 'those were the good old days and now we're not there'. I don't think like that. Not my way.

How much closer can I get to the common ear, the mainstream, and how much it can still be from this other world, this other place? That's the line I keep trying to tread but have my wings extend more on both sides.

I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and terrible or joyous and wonderful. The simple truth was that life was both. p 214

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms.

Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.

To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.

The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially, the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate.

I hope you find true meaning, contentment, and passion in your life. I hope you navigate the difficult times and come out with greater strength and resolve. I hope you find whatever balance you seek with your eyes wide open. And I hope that you - yes, you - have the ambition to lean in to your career and run the world. Because the world needs you to change it.

The way I feel is that there is a balance in my life between being alone and interacting with people, between Being and doing.

You have to feel the bad to be able to feel the good.

Life is a dance between making it happen and letting it happen.

You must learn to deal with the odd and even in life, as well as in figures.

What I learned, more than anything, was that you can't have it all balanced perfectly at any one time. When I was young, it was much more balanced toward work. When I had my children, it was much more balanced toward love and family, and I didn't get a lot of work done. So you can't ask of it to be perfectly balanced at any time, but your hope is, before you die, you've somehow had each of those spheres come to life. That's probably more important than success in any one of those spheres alone.

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

I feel like finding the balance is the struggle with making music in general.

It's all about knowing the balance, because I like to remain somewhat of a mystery. You need to have that, you know what I mean?

I think the balance is between what you can get, what you want and what wants you.