Quotes About Balance

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

he had found compromise and the assaulting diversion of triviality.

I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.

I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

It is because nature is ruthless, hideous, and cruel beyond belief that it was necessary to invent civilisation.

You know, one of the most shocking things about it is to realize how easily we have lost a world that seemed so safe and certain." She was quite right. It was that simplicity that seemed somehow to be the nucleus of the shock. From very familiarity one forgets all the forces which keep the balance, and thinks of security as normal. It is not.

Like all parents she is dichotomous, what she really wants is a child genius who is perfectly normal.

Just that mere existence is not enough. One exists by barter. One lives by giving – and taking.

asked. 'Just that mere existence is not enough. One exists by barter. One lives by giving – and taking.' 'I

The dove is not a coward to fear the hawk; it is simply wise.

Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary.

Does the man really command the sword?" I asked. "It appears that the sword may command the man.

It's a tricky balancing act, finding that point between safety and danger where you can feel both secure and adventurous. I used to read books about fishing by people who had given up jobs and careers to show up every day at a trout stream. What made them do it? They realized, after years of fortifying the walls, of making life safe and secure, that they also needed what was on the other side.

Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her.

Explain that good healers didn't stubbornly refuse to acknowledge their limits.

They take them from the plants and animals or the elements. Still Waters, Gentle Breeze, pah. Why not Dead Deer, or Rutting Ehat?

When you're flying, the changing balance of lift and weight pulls you up or down. But another pair of forces pulls you forward or backward through the air: thrust and drag. Thrust is the power that pulls the kite forward—you run with it to get it up in the air. You have to have thrust to create lift. Drag is there because your kite's surfaces push against the air and slow the kite down. Drag doesn't pull you out of the sky; it makes you fly more slowly.

extremes of affection only to be seen when the mind's a heart.

William, when you do gymnastics, you have to be honest about everything you do in the other parts of your life too. Otherwise, your body will deceive you and you won't be able to turn the tricks.

It is so hard to learn to put sadness in perspective so hard to understand that it is a feeling that comes in degrees, it can be a candle burning gently and harmlessly in your home, or it can be a full-fledged forest fire that destroy almost everything and is controlled by almost nothing. It can also be so much in-between

Peace Is Nothing Without Anger

A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.

The dark today leads into light tomorrow; There is no endless joy, ...and yet no endless sorrow.