Life Is Primarily a Question of Balance - A. R. Rahman

Clarity is the counterbalance of complexity. - Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf’s remark frames thought and expression as a delicate balance rather than a simple choice. Complexity is often unavoidable because reality is layered, contradictory, and difficult to reduce; yet without cla...

Everything in moderation, including moderation. — Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde’s line, “Everything in moderation, including moderation,” works by first borrowing a familiar moral rule and then twisting it into a paradox. If moderation is always good, then we should practice it without e...

Rest belongs to the work as the eyelids to the eyes. — Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

Tagore’s image is deceptively simple: eyelids are not an extra feature of the eye but part of how seeing works. In the same way, rest is not an optional reward after labor; it is built into the very functioning of meanin...

The five colors make people’s eyes blind; the five tones make people’s ears deaf; the five flavors make people’s mouths dull; galloping about in hunting fields makes people’s minds go mad; goods hard to come by make people’s conduct be hindered. Therefore the sage provides for the belly and not for the eyes; thus he discards that and takes this. - Laozi

Laozi

Laozi opens with a series of striking inversions: colors “blind,” tones “deafen,” and flavors “dull” the mouth. Rather than denying perception itself, he suggests that saturation can numb sensitivity, so that the more we...

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity. — Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse’s line crystallizes a lifelong pursuit: art as equilibrium and calm. In Notes of a Painter (1908), he imagined art that soothes “like a good armchair” after fatigue, not as escape but as restoration.

The middle point is the path to heaven.

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This statement suggests that living a balanced and moderate life leads to spiritual fulfillment or 'heaven.' Extreme behaviors or attitudes can lead to turmoil, while moderation brings peace and stability.