Quotes About Balance

t's okay to let yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. -

My parents were a sight gag. Opposites otherwise, too. One shy but given to monologues, one outgoing and inclined to listen. One with a temper; one affable, sometimes enragingly so. Opposite in every way but their bad habits, which is the secret to a happy marriage and also the makings of a catastrophe.

She counted on herself to withstand everything. And yet, who said she had to? What would happen if she broke down now and then?

I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.

Faith and mental stability aren't mutually exclusive.

amanda thought about her addiction to being on the move. about whether she was running away or running toward.

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

He had always known that to truly receive, you had to give. Now he understood the equal truth: that to be able to give with a whole heart you had to be prepared to receive in turn.

Time to start getting more sleep. This beautiful physique needs royal treatment.

Try to live. Try to be happy. [...] Things end, people leave, and life goes on. You need the bad things to feel the good ones.

The greatest misfortune in the world is to have more learning than common sense.

Er was iets aan haar wat ten diepste -bijna wezenlijk- in harmonie was met zichzelf, zoals iemand is, denk ik, wanneer allebei zijn ouders van hem hebben gehouden.

Fine, make beds, but find a way to keep using your head.

Why is ink like a fire? Because it is a good servant and a hard master.

I think there is no perfect way to live

As a matter of fact, I could argue that none of us has a center of gravity. That we're tugged and pulled by competing forces every minute and we hold on as best we can.

Olive's private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as "big bursts" and "little bursts." Big bursts are things like marriage or children, intimacies that keep you afloat, but these big bursts hold dangerous, unseen currents. Which is why you need the little bursts as well: a friendly clerk at Bradlee's, let's say, or the waitress at Dunkin' Donuts who knows how you like your coffee. Tricky business, really.

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

there is usually a course to be found somewhere between laid-back and laid out.

The man was right who said that salt water was a cure for everything...in one of three forms, tears, sweat, or the sea.

Let's not be too harsh where poets are concerned. They have to live in no-man's-land, halfway between dreams and reality.