Quotes About Balance

We must relinquish the paradigm of men as power with women as support and instead embrace the image of both men and women as powers, with each supporting the other. Any man who holds a woman back is not a man a woman can afford to be with.

We have been brought up in a world that does not put love first, and where love is absent, fear sets in. Fear is to love as darkness is to light.

Anger is like the white sugar of activist energy; it gives adrenaline in the short term but is debilitating in the long term. Love is the nutrition of the gods.

We have the opportunity to forge a marriage between the masculine and feminine, more potent and more vibrant than any we have experienced on the earth for ages - more beautiful, perhaps, than any the earth has ever known.

We won't be led through the storm of this moment, either by those who love this country blindly or by those who condemn her blindly. For the blind cannot see.

Giving people a lot of consumer products but not giving them information is like giving people lots of candy but withholding basic nourishment.

Necesitamos esa paz porque el mundo avanza demasiado aprisa y el sistema nerviosos de todos y cada uno se ve afectado simplemente por la velocidad de las cosas. Todos parecemos estar agotados, como si necesitáramos unas nuevas vacaciones para encontrarnos de nuevo con nosotros mismos

Being too consumed in fear all the time will result in poor quality of life

Was it worth while, he thought, to be so wise, if wisdom made one at times so sad? Was it well to sacrifice Faith for Fact, when Faith was so warm and Fact so cold? Was it better to be a dreamer of things possible, or a worker-out of things positive? And how much was positive, after all, and how much possible? He balanced the question lightly with himself. It was like a discord in the music of his mind, and disturbed his peace.

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word.

Love is not honourable, unless it is based on equality.

everybody has a light and a dark side, and neither can exist without the other.

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine.

Evening was her special time of day. She gave the world three syllables and indeed I think she liked it so well for its tendency to smooth, to soften. She seemed to dislike the disequilibrium of counterpoising a roomful of light against a worldful of darkness. Sylvie in a house was more or less like a mermaid in a ship's cabin. She preferred it sunk in the very element it was meant to exclude.

There are many ways to live a good life

Eliminate the overwhelming cost of phantom wars and fools' errands, and humankind might begin to balance its books. After all, its only debts are to itself.

So joy can be joy and sorrow can be sorrow, with neither of them casting either light or shadow on the other.

Much more prayer is called for, clearly, but first I will take a nap.

A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine. Above

think most people feel a difference between their real lives and the lives they have in the world. But they ignore their souls, or hide them, so they can keep things together, keep an ordinary life together.

The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maiden.

Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made simple, that complexity reigns and must be accepted.

The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio , and acted upon, the male is actio , the mover.