Quotes About Balance

families where the parents float around in a haze of brightly coloured hemp and honey-almond candles, a copy of a self-help book tucked under an arm, and a Dalai Lama keyring for their four-wheel-drive clutched in their hand.

I live in the light, But carry my dark with me.

A few people would suffer, but a lot of people would be better off.' 'It's just not right,' said Kevin stubbornly. 'Maybe not. But neither's your way of looking at it. There doesn't have to be a right side and a wrong side. both sides can be right, or both sides can be wrong...

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

When we practice sacred sexuality we are working with cosmologically rooted principles, balancing the heavenly yang (male energy) of the universe with the all-knowing, life-giving yin (feminine energy) of the earth within ourselves.

Inside every man there is a potential woman and inside every woman resides a potential man.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow citizens.

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.

When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.

The hope of a very favourable outcome, which may balance the risk in the mind of the borrower, is not available to solace the lender.

We are aware of yoga only as a technique to gain physical strength, flexibility, or increased health. And indeed these are potent side effects of the practice. But that is what they are: side effects. To focus on these largely insignificant manifestations is to miss the point entirely.

There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

Cool, calm and collected, the three seas of wisdom and success.

As long as I'm rested, as long as I'm not overstimulated, as long as I can space out my day, I can count on my brain reasonably cooperating with me.

A garden is not a matter of life or death. It is far more important than that.

It is very difficult, if not impossible, to relinquish and attach at the same time.

Nothing was a natural predator of productive fiction writing like the cell phone. Ditto the laptop. As she had well learned, the laptop could destroy a day.

While Mallory fixes the appetizers, Jake goes for a swim

Motherhood, she has come to realize, requires a lot of math: How much space is enough; how much is too much?)

solid midwestern pragmatism. Circle of life and all that.

woman out there watching—many of whom idolize Margaret and think of her as a pioneer who broke through very thick, very real glass ceilings—to know that success always comes with a price and that greatness often doesn't allow for balance.

they didn't have a lot in common in the way people understood that phrase. Rather, they were opposite sides of the same coin. They complemented each other, completed each other. They'd created a life that glowed.