Quotes About Balance

I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone. Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have 'no time in the day to themselves.' 1852

You can control any situation if you first control yourself.

Wisdom's ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace.

It's the quality of harmony, sir. The quality of being in harmony with you own soul. God having given you your own soul you are then in harmony with Heaven.

In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection. Yet first impressions have always a bias in their favour, and even quiet reflection has often a job to efface them.

Then, happy was the man who carried his liquor well.

Otherwise the world could not continue — the children would not be healthy. And

You know the man on the stage who throws up sixteen balls at once and they all drop into pockets all over his person, on his shoulders, on his heels, on the inner side of his sleeves; and he stands perfectly still and does nothing. Well, it was like that.

It is The Way," he said softly. "Take only what ye need. When ye take the deer, do not take the best. Take the smaller and the slower and then the deer will grow stronger and always give you meat. Pa-koh, the panther, knows and so must ye." And

Science sans conscience n'est que ruine de l'âme.

No hay peor pérdida de tiempo que la de contar las horas ¿que se consigue con eso? Y no hay mayor quimera que quererse gobernar a golpe de campana y no por la razón y el buen sentido.

It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine, and things pushing up and working under the earth

Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)

Mother says as th' two worst things as can happen to a child is never have his own way-- or always to have it. She doesn't know which is th' worst.

Las dos peores cosas que le pueden suceder a un niño es no salirse nunca con al suya, o salirse siempre con ella. Susan Sowerby

At first we raced through space, like shadows and light; her rants, my raves; her dark hair, my blonde; black dresses, white. She's a purple-black African-violet-dark butterfly and I a white moth. We were two wild ponies, Dawn and Midnight, the wind electrifying our manes and our hooves quaking the city; we were photo negatives of each other, together making the perfect image of a girl.

Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder.

The happier you are, the less you need.

Sometimes you fall, spinning through space, grasping for the things that keep you on this earth. Sometimes you catch them.

Nihil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio (Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than excessive cleverness)

And her mother had only made it worse by filling up every spare minute with her own job and part-time night school.

His older brother once told him that if you found you were undressing the girl and yourself, take a break and ask yourself whether you're pushing too hard.