#lance

First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and the world. It looks at things objectively (yathābhūtam). It does not falsely lull you into living in a fool's paradise, nor does it frighten and agonize you with all kinds of imaginary fears and sins. It tells you exactly and objectively what you are and what the world around you is, and shows you the way to perfect freedom, peace, tranquility and happiness. ↗

— Walpola Rahula

#buddhism #middle-path #middle-way #objectivism #objectivity

Frenzy destroys our inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#inspirational #inspirational

It’s all about balance. Balancing exercise, food, and life. No excesses. ↗

— Helen M. Ryan

#health #mind-body #weightloss #change

He did not say so, but the words behind the words told me that he would rather have launched me into a good marriage than watch me row against the tide at my own work. It remains that a woman with an incomplete emotional life has herself to blame, while a man with no time for his heart just needs a wife. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#work #work-life-balance #love

Lancelot: Morgaine, Morgaine - kinswoman, I have never seen you weep. Morgaine: Are you like so many men, afraid of a woman's tears? (...) Lancelot: No (...) it makes them seem so much more real, so much more vulnerable - women who never weep frighten me, because I know they are stronger than I, and I am always a little afraid of what they will do. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#morgaine #men

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#appearance #completely #different #glance #i

You will never feel truly satisfied by work until you are satisfied by life. ↗

— Heather Schuck

#inspirational-life #success-strategies #work-life-balance #inspirational

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#inspirational #inspirational

Do Less. Be More. ↗

— Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#follow-your-heart #inspiration #time-investment #inspirational

We spend our lives asking the question, ‘What do people want me to do? Who do they want me to be?’ But this is a betrayal of our inner truth. We should be investing our lives in the pursuit of discovering who we are and what we were created to do. ↗

— Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#be-true-to-yourself #follow-your-heart #inner-voice #inspiration #motivation