Bianca Balti Quotes

I take everything very seriously, but I also take it lighthearted to recognize that you can't control it.

The things you cannot change you can't waste your time on.

There's just some things you can't change.

The secret of zen is just two words: not... always... so.

One of the hard lessons to learn in life is that there are some things you can control and some things you can't. If you want a short recipe for being frustrated and miserable, this is it: focus on things you can't control.

Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

Things will come and go, and your life will go on, but you don't want to get too ahead of yourself.

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not need it all at once; it's not good for you.

You should never get nervous about anything. What today seems important tomorrow isn't so any more.

There are things we control - but things that are not in control, no point wasting time and energy into that.

My motto is never to hold on to anything. I accept and then let go: not just the negatives, but the praise, too. Or it'll get to my head.

You cannot control everything - you try to control what you can control.

Not that I don't care about winning or I don't care about doing well, but I have to care less about the things that happen that are outside of my control.

Meditation is a tool for helping us accept the profound fact that everything changes all the time.

We can't control what thoughts and emotions arise within us, nor can we control the universal truth that everything changes. But we can learn to step back and rest in the awareness of what's happening. That awareness can be our refuge.

Each moment that passes changes you...You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.

Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached to things staying the same, we realize that relaxing and letting go is a wiser way to live. Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.

Anyone who enjoys inner peace is no more broken by failure as he is inflated by success. He is able to fully live his experiences in the context of a vast and profound serenity, since he understands that experiences are ephemeral and that it is useless to cling to them.

Don't get too attached to anything.

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work's another. But if it doesn't work out, so be it. As the Taoists say, Learn to accept that which you cannot change.