Quotes About Balance

you want the sweetness of our beginning without the bitterness of our struggle - what are you asking - do you want light without shadow? ...

the strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires...

ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know...

you called me poet-priest - I am. ...devoted to my art, faithful to you...or, is the other way around?...

why is my cat a Muse? the cat has the rare grace of never saying a word too much? Mark Twain ...that's why ...

the magic of love runs at cross purposes with the rhythm of living...

the house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah...

It was cool for a couple of weeks, but how much bad golf can you play?

If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow.

If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win.

A woman should not be judged for needing this reassurance, just as a man should not be judged for needing to withdraw.

It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either.

At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.

Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty; Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of beauty.

Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.

In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us.

As environmental protection has emerged as a significant item on the policy agendas of governments, the state must increasingly balance its dual role as a facilitator of capital accumulation and economic growth and its role as environmental regulator and champion. On

as dark did with light and weakness with strength. Nothing was simple or pure;

Unsettle the mind; destroy the balance. Destroy the balance; obliterate the man.

Sex and tears, like sun and rain, were never meant to share a moment;

Knowing how polarities work, the wise leader does not push to make things happen, but allows process to unfold on its own. The leader teaches by example rather than by lecturing others on how they ought to be. The leader knows that constant interventions will block the group's process. The leader does not insist that things come out a certain way. The wise leader does not seek a lot of money or a lot of praise. Nevertheless, there is plenty of both.

Better is half a loaf than no bread.

Let the world slide, let the world go;A fig for care, and a fig for woe!If I can't pay, why I can owe,And death makes equal the high and low.