Quotes About Balance

The duplicitous world has set enough examples of how self-love doesn't portray selfishness rather selfishness portrays self-love.

He just wasn't good at being a cross between a teddy bear and just a friend.

What I want, isn't what I need...

There are certain people who do not feel like they were raised by wolves, and they are the ones who make the world tick. They are the ones who keep everything functioning so the rest of us can worry about what sort of person we should be.

If now in some ways I drink too much, it's not that I lack a reverence for the world.

God is most proud of creation as an aesthetic thing. You have only to look at the exquisite harmony of sky and trees and moon and stars to see what a good job God did, aesthetically.

SHEILA How can these artists we read about—who have been married five or six times—how can they have enough time for all that life, and also make art? MARGAUX And have a heroin addiction?

Why are you all reading? I don't understand this reading business when there is so much fucking to be done.

Life has a way of evening out the injustices it has created.

Peace begins with peace" -H.W. Marsworth

Love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe,

But when you decide to get married, it's important to realise that marriage is a partnership. And that sometimes you're better off not being crazy in love with the person you're married to.

You think you can have everything. But you can't.

Maybe you're looking for the kind of man who doesn't exist, Ash. You want somebody who'll fit your life perfectly and that'll never happen. There has to be a bit of give and take, you know.' 'I know,' Ash said sharply. 'But I don't want to do all of the giving and none of the taking.

I love the light as much as I love the dark. It's such a beautiful balance.

We are the flow; we are the ebb. We are the weavers; we are the web.

I'm not sure sex qualifies as R and R, but it's a compromise I can live with.

I don't want to do anything that might be perceived as overstepping our bounds. Pigs get fat, but hogs get slaughtered.

I'm not going to try to deal with a murder case, menopause, and breast cancer at the same time.

It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian'. The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non Christians: their lives contain no overwhelming firsts but many balances.

But in the books again, great joy through love seemed always to go hand in hand with frightful pain. Still, he thought, looking out across the meadow, still, the joy would be worth the pain—if, indeed, they went together. If

Never put a boy in front of your friendship

The balanced rocks that sit on the inuksuk...represent the balance we strive to find in our lives. Life is fragile, just like the balanced rocks, but they help us remember that anything is possible.

Bird looked back at Pastor. *Why did you bite Jeremy?* *Because I felt like it.* *Is it out of your system now? Feel better now?* *Actually, I do* Jeremy piped in; *No big deal. He bit, I kicked; we're even* ... No wonder horses get messed up. By the time people get around it hitting them, the horses have forgotten the whole thing.