Quotes About Balance

Women will one day rule the world, and when they do, their brains will be so finely tuned from all the years of quiet that I anticipate they will be far superior rulers to men.

It's where a thing can't be beautiful or perfect without an imperfection. Say,

It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from.

F. Scott Fitzgerald famously described the importance of being able "to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time," while still retaining "the ability to function." I was quickly becoming practiced at this discomfiting balance.

from Rudyard Kipling's poem "If": If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same

I am the cure and the disease.

Most days it feels like I am watching a movie where the sound isn't in sync, the speed is all wrong. Either I'm moving too quickly and the world is dripping along, or the world is moving too quickly, cosmic, and I'm oozing like a slug barely able to pull my own weight. It's best if I keep moving because if I stopped and stood still people would see me shaking.

Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.

No matter where you are, keep your life simple - that is all I am saying. Remember, a rich man is not the one who has the most, but one who desires the least.

The only way out of this was to figure out a compromise they could both live with. Maybe I could convince Miles and Savannah to forgo the public apology if I met them over coffee. Maybe I could convince Evie to stop crying foul. And hey! After that maybe I could spin straw into gold!

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. (He laughs.) Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. (Pause.) Let us not speak well of it either. (Pause.) Let us not speak of it at all.

The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

To love God is to have good health, good looks, good sense, experience, a kindly nature and a fair balance of cash in hand.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other.

Nothing is so cruel as to try and force a man beyond his natural pace.

The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts.

An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.