Quotes About Balance

If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly.

if you stop "thrashing your liver" into an early state of exhaustion, you will add many years to your life.

The earth will support anything that supports life.

I struggle for your rights despite my fears. But your rights have to be balanced against our needs for survival. That is why you cannot be satisfied. For you, every viable solution will always be lacking in justice. In a peace plan, everybody will have to do with less than they deserve.

Las frustraciones del trabajo se pagaban en la casa, o buscaban su equilibrio. Como en las familias pobres o las familias tristes

Para que el Bien tenga mérito —enfatizó— hace falta que exista el Mal.

Because I am exactly where I should be, doing exactly what I should be doing. That is peace.

We all own a beast called anger. It can serve us: many good things come of anger at bad things; many unjust things are made just. But first we all have to figure out how to civilize it.

Because I am exactly where I should be, doing exactly what I should be doing. That is peace. Eat." Peter

You don't get anything without giving up something.

There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.

You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.

But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.

He was not my boyfriend. On the other hand, he wasn't just a friend either. Instead, our relationship was elastic, stretching between those two extremes depending on who else was around, how much either of us had to drink, and other varying factors. This was exactly what I wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose.

This is exactly what i wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose.

You know, feeling and action are always linked, one can't exist without the other. It's sort of a hippie thing.-Wes

And no relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

The truth was, there was no way everything could be the Best. Sometimes, when it came to events and people, it had to be okay to just be .

Whenever something great happens, you're always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.

The thing is, you can't always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns.

We both know the limits of this relationship. It's understood. And as long as we're both comfortablewith that, nobody get's hurt. It's basic.' ~Oliva, pg 374

The only trick was never giving more that you were willing to lose.

I am still the center sister. But I see it differently now. There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.

Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?