What defines you?

What defines you?

“What is joy without sorrow?

What is success without failure?

What is a win without a loss?

What is health without illness?

You have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other.

There is always going to be suffering. It’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.”

By Mark Twain

Life balance. Two ways.

“The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught.

But what about the benefits of living harmoniously among extremes?

What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly incongruous opposites into a worldview that excludes nothing?”

by Elizabeth Gilbert – Eat, Pray, Love