"Ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know..."

Balance, Ambition, Contentment, Identity

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"Ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know..."

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"Here I was, seeing you almost every week, and talking with you, and knowing that the only one in your heart was Kizuki. It hurt. It really hurt. And I think that's why I slept with girls I didn't know."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Balance, Truth, Life, Harmony

"You were never born to make money. You were born to enjoy life and be happy. Instead you learned to make money and forgot how to be happy."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Life is a balance between letting go and holding on."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

Balance, Life

"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!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Balance, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Inspirational

"The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises."

Jason Statham, British Actor

Balance, Fight, Training

"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."

Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Poet

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"The absolute value of being neutral is zero."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Balance, Neutrality, Truth, Power, Philosophy

"If you think too much heaven within your mind,you may have no time for simple things in this life."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Balance, Truth, Future, Regret, Wisdom

"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."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Balance, Perfection, Appreciation, Chaos

"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

Balance, Saying

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"...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent..."

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"I'm constantly agitated, restless - I work moments like worry beads until I see your face..."

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"You listen first with the ears - then, you wait and listen for what your heart feels - then you consider what they've said - then, you reply ..."

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"If you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while..."

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"If you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone..."

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"We have entertained ourselves with the pornography of violence and inflamed passions that might otherwise have slumbered..."

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"I'm innocent still -inside me are stained glass windows that have never been broken- and when I see your light it stains my soul with color ..."

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"A writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator...."

Art

"I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me..."

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"I love Shakespeare, but sometimes....his images - If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head...."

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