365 Quote Quest: #1540 The scales balance

Monday, November 3, 2014

#1540 The scales balance

Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Learn to pause ... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you. ~Doug King

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

When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have. ~Kathleen A. Sutton

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised. ~Denis Waitley

I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors … and it's the shade that defines the light. ~Tori Amos

Quotes about balance

- How does a balanced perspective help you to achieve a fulfilling life?

I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer. ~Aryeh Frimer

A prudent question is one half of wisdom. ~Francis Bacon

A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements. ~ Bo Bennett

What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask. ~Sam Keen

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. ~ Eugene Ionesco

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions. ~ Confucius

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. ~ Earl Gray Stevens

Transformation comes more from pursuing profound questions than seeking practical answers. ~ Peter Block

We have learned the answers, all the answers: it is the question we do not know. ~ Archibald MacLeish

The fool wonders, the wise man asks. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

Judge a man by this questions rather than by his answers. ~ Voltaire

The important thing is not to stop questioning. ~ Albert Einstein

The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me. ~ Carl Jung

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place, but a seed to be planted and to bear more seeds toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of that question. ~ Tennessee Williams

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. ~James Thurber

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. ~ Dr. Seuss

The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question. ~Tony Robbins

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers. ~ Joseph Albers.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them. ~ Anton Chekhov

There is always the question why, and there is always life which doesn't need an answer. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

The wise person questions himself, the fool others. ~ Henri Arnold

Live your questions now, and perhaps you will live along some distant day into your answers. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke