Quotes About Balance

Without your health, everything else means nothing.

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.

More and more, as civilization develops, we find the primitive to be essential to us. We root into the primitive as a tree roots into the earth. If we cut off the roots, we lose the sap without which we can't progress or even survive. I don't believe our civilization can continue very long out of contact with the primitive.

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.

We got off the Clash of the Titans tour and I said that my wife and I were working on having a baby and sure enough we found out that she was pregnant. So I told them nine months in advance that I wasn't going to tour in September so I could witness the birth of my first son.

I witnessed first-hand the self-defeating results of putting yourself under so much pressure to perform.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

Facebook, I'm learning, is like a man. You have to be smiley and fun and witty but sometimes you have to play it cool and just ignore it for a couple of hours.

Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

But on the other hand, I talked to a woman who was a working woman, and it was actually great for her, because she had her husband one week of the month and the other three weeks, while he was with his other wives, she got to pursue what she wanted to do.

When you're the head coach, you coach 53 people, and their wives and their girlfriends and their families and all those people.

I give and give, and sometimes I can't find me. I'm sure many moms and wives go down that same rabbit hole.

We saw more of each other than we did of our wives. We wrote everything together. But how long can you go on doing that? How long can you go on being half an entity?

I always had musicians in my band having children, and their wives were the ones at home taking care of the kids. So I never thought much of it. And then suddenly I'm the parent, but I'm the woman, and it's like, 'Ah, what happens now?'