when people ask me how i've built my following, i tell them this: i work REALLY hard, i TRY to be good and kind to people 100% of the time, i read a lot, i accept my failures, i try and remain present, and i try to live and love with intention.
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Quotes tagged ‘Living A Balanced Life’
The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places.…
The whole ideal of Teaism is a result of this Zen conception of greatness in the smallest incidents of life. Taoism furnished the basis for aesthetic ideals, Zennism made them practical.
To keep the proportion of things and give place to others without losing one's own position was the secret of success in the mundane drama. We must know the whole play in order to properly act our parts; the conception of totality must never be lost in that of the individual.
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy.
Overflow gently — don’t drown.
A cucumber is bitter— throw it away. There are briars in the path— turn aside from them. This is enough.
Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn’t suck.
The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.