Quotes About Balance

Fiddler on the Roof, to

The majority of people are not fully committed to either the right or the left. Nor either to censorship or to absolute freedom of speech. People are too caught up in the daily struggle for survival to pour a lot of energy into ideology.

Unsure how to find grace and security in the complex world we've inherited, we try to fill up the spaces in our children's lives with stuff: birthday entertainments, lessons, rooms full of toys and equipment, tutors and therapists. But material pleasures can't buy peace of mind, and all the excess leads to more anxiety—parents fear that their children will not be able to sustain this rarefied lifestyle and will fall off the mountain the parents have built for them.

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I wonder if because of my reading I have lived more fully or in some ways failed to live, at least in my own time and place.

The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.

Assertiveness is most effective when least applied.

Be careful not to trip over yourself.

Don't worry so much about others, panda bear eats bamboo like a heart of palm.

Grasshoppers don't plant." They migrate after consuming everything that belongs to the other.

The doctor saves many lives but his own."

The secret of success is 99% God and 1% knowledge." Every effort without wisdom is a failure.

There are those who give wings to imagination and put wisdom in a cage."

You don't catch big fish with a small pole, nor do you catch small fish with a big hook."

Some days I don't sleep and there are days I sleep for days.

When the two become the one And the inside outside, the outside in So that the male be not male nor the female female Then will you see me.

I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.

Establishing the bridge between the worlds means a more competent, more peaceful and happier species.

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

What no one tells you about having children is that it isn't tbe physical demand thry make in your life that affects your art, it's the emotional space they fill, crowding out your art. So even when you have the time to work, you're still mentally occupied.

Because my brain is broken. There's all sorts of interesting medical and neurochemical reasons for it, and I've learned everything I can about them,* but knowing all of that isn't enough to make my brain magically start processing serotonin and norepinephrine and dopamine in a balanced way

Bob Ross: "You can't have light without a little darkness.

That includes the gross parts, which I am learning to accept (without condoning) through the words of the great Bob Ross: "You can't have light without a little darkness.