Quotes About Balance

The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.

and luckily I have enough in my head to balance what is wanting in my back.

Writers must write and they suffer if they don't. Then they suffer if they do.

There's an Oriental saying I like: "If aggression meets empty space it tends to defeat itself.

When we assert our reason as our authority for dominion, we must use that authority reasonably. When we assert free will as our distinctive human quality, we must use our free will not only in acts of self-interest but in acts of self-restraint.

When we call something a necessary evil, something requiring the suffering or death of a fellow creature, the evil is real and it had better be necessary.

From Africa to the western United States to the story of the rainforest of the Amazon, it is the fate of many wild creatures either to be unwanted by men or wanted too much, despised as a means to progress or desired as a means to progress - beloved and brutalized all at once, like the elephant and whale and dolphin.

It held an eye to the future and a tongue to the past.

It turns out that maybe breeding bonsai-tree children to become résumé zombies isn't so good for their mental health.

Our lives can only hold so much. If they're filled with one thing, they can't be filled with another. We ought to do a lot of thinking about what we want to fill them with.

Our lives can only hold so much. If they're filled with one thing, they can't be filled with another. We ought to do a lot of thinking about what we want to fill them with.

Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her real life.

She stood back and examined the overall effect, then tweaked until the arrangement was just right. Where her books were, she was. Get the books right and the rest will follow. Now she could address the rest of the room.

For you, there is underage, and then, there is underage. I believe a taste of wine is perfectly acceptable, but please stick to one glass tonight. Now, let's work on ambiance.

Sometimes anxiety did that—it could slow you down or speed you up.

It was a good brain, but it had only two modes—fog and frenzy.

But where excitement tends to take you up, into the higher, brighter levels of feeling, anxiety pulls you down, making you feel like you have to grip the earth to keep from sliding off as it turns.

An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

Some day, we shall stop and build a house, when we shall have gone far enough. But we do not have to hasten. The days before us are without end, like the forest.

When a man drowns himself in work, it's because he's trying to escape from something. You ought to have a hobby.

He visto mucho en esta vida -dijo de buen humor-. Y los casados no se miran uno a otro como si estuvieran pensando siempre en el dormitorio. En este mundo o se es virtuoso o se goza. Pero no las dos cosas a un tiempo; No las dos cosas.

La sabiduría reside en saber cuándo hay que recordar y cuándo olvidar.

Only the man who extols the purity of a love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love. But observe that most people are creatures cut in half who keep swinging desperately to one side or to the other.

Nadie puede escapar de la justicia, nada puede ser no ganado y no pagado en el universo