Quotes About Balance

The same thing that gives us wisdom gives us plaque.

I have a wife, three children, three dogs, seven cats. I'm not a Franz Kafka, sitting alone and suffering.

The Judeo-Christian heritage has left us with the view of a universe composed of warring opposites, which are valued as either good or evil. They cannot coexist. A valuable insight of Witchcraft, shared by many earth-based religions, is that polarities are in balance, not at war.

even a drop of happiness could color a whole well of misery.

Il mondo si divide in: quelli che mangiano il cioccolato senza pane; quelli che non riescono a mangiare il cioccolato se non mangiano anche il pane; quelli che non hanno il cioccolato; quelli che non hanno il pane. (Dai detti celebri di nonno Socrate)

Ci sono delle cose che sembrano cattive e invece sono buone. Si può tagliare un ramo per far star meglio l'albero, oppure per rovinarlo. C'è una pioggia che fa bene e una che fa marcire.

If you can't take both sides, it means you can only play yourself.

Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.

The whole struggle of life is to some extent a struggle about how slowly or how quickly to do each thing.

as long as we respond to the uncertainties with common sense, flexibility, and affection, most of us can be, in therapist Donald Winnicott's words, "good enough" parents.

I still love to love my friends, but I punctuate those moments with solitude.

Fluctuating emotions prompt our adrenal glands to flood our bodies with cortisol, which artificially amps up everything from our heart rate to our body temperature and stimulates our nervous system to function above its normal baseline.

Crud. What was she supposed to do? Protect herself or the pretzels?

The synthesis of Love and Justice can produce only Mercy and Forgiveness, Your Honor! If a just God sits in Heaven, it can fall no other way!

As a way of life, a middle path is an ongoing task of responsiveness and risk, grounded on a groundless ground. Its twists and turns are as turbulent and unpredictable as life itself.

Once, all humans lived as the Navi do.

Eywa is central to the Navi and their world. Jake learns is the Navi see the world as a network of energy, flowing through all living things; the energy is only borrowed an you have to give it back. Eywa, the great mother, she protects the balance of life. As such, per haps she is a sister to our own Gaia.

Maybe it doesn't have to be the way Jake Sully bleakly summarized it to Eywa. Maybe there is a way for us to keep the Earth green, without giving up our civilization and all the benefits it brings: by using the resources of space.

there is less danger in fearing too much than too little"—

You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.

Charlie, don't you get it? I can't feel that. It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.

I'm caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it.

and let the quiet put things where they're supposed to be

And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.