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Exlpore more Balance quotes
"If you move faster than the music, it will look strange; if you move slower than the music, it will look strange! Be like autumn leaves which follow exactly the rhythm of the wind!"
"Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness."
"The absolute value of being neutral is zero."
"But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right."
"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it."
"It's highly refined stuff-holding to one's purpose and focus, but also intuiting the value of being a piece in a larger design and evolution. The balance between these two rhythms is where and when true harmony is achieved and magic happens. Often, just the release of the obsession for personal preferences and to personally gain opens the door."
Explore more quotes by W. H. Auden
"All the rest is silenceOn the other side of the wall;And the silence ripeness,And the ripeness all."
"Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods."
"You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people."
"May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that "faith" is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?"
"A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become."
"Any marriage happy or unhappy is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance however passionate."
"Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs."
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