Balance in large measure is knowing the things that can be changed, putting them in proper perspective, and recognizing the things that will not change."
Interpretation
Balance involves understanding what is changeable and what is constant in life.
This quote emphasizes the importance of balance in life through awareness. It suggests that true wisdom lies in recognizing which aspects of our lives can be altered and which remain unchangeable, allowing us to navigate challenges more effectively by maintaining the right perspective.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming challenges.
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That’s the ground, that’s what we study, that’s what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest.
When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don't like to have a situation placed over my head.
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.
As a kid, this is what I wanted my life to be. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever dare to dream that it would be this.
Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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