Quotes About Balance

We are the balance of our damage and our transgressions.

We seem to be built with a faulty gauge for moderation.

We [women] have earned the right to forget about stupefying household busywork. But kitchens where food is cooked and eaten - those were really a good idea. We threw that baby out with the bathwater.

That's how it always is with us. Step too far one way or the other and you've got on your sister's toes.

Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

You had to be careful with large families.

Three hundred fifty parts per million," he replied. "The number of carbon molecules the atmosphere can hold, and still maintain the ordinary thermal balance. It's an important figure.

Too much adrenaline will age you before your time. I've heard that said. What I know for sure is, it will push you too fast through your day.

One other person can go a long way towards making your world right," she said, "but the support has to run both ways.

Animals can always read your vibration, and if you are intent on empowering your life, they will often gift you by making special melodies of sound to balance your chakras and tune up your body.

As Benjamin Disraeli said, It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

DA Langlais imparò che tra tutte le vite possibili, a una bisogna ancorarsi per poter contemplare, sereni, tutte le alte.

Sometimes, you have to remind yourself the perfect is the enemy of the good.

We could go from bliss and harmony to anger and recriminations as fast and with as little warning as a tropical storm. What made it bearable, what made it good, was that the foul weather would pass with equal suddenness, usually leaving something glorious in its wake.

He stumbled and managed to get out a suppressed pistol, trying at the same time to regain his balance. But his motor skills were suffering from a large and probably insufficiently familiar dose of adrenaline, and the long suppressor made for an equally long draw. He bobbled the gun, and in that second I was on him.

He laughed at that, which was good. I needed him to understand who was in charge, but didn't want to beat him down too hard. His goodwill, his naïve sense of fairness, was a potential asset, and not something to toss away needlessly.

Call it assassination feng shui: the vibe was just more favorable

Why did bad things, things she had no control over, make her unable to enjoy good things?

You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.

The abbot used to say that the emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.

At the heart of this story, I think, is a simple, abiding belief: it is possible to live wisely on the land, and to live well. And in behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.

Our question is no longer how to exploit the natural world for human comfort and gain, but how we can cooperate with one another to ensure we will someday have a fitting, not a dominating, place in it.

the primary organizing principle for human achievement is stability, not progress, meaning that balance, symmetry, and regularity are more to be valued than change, growth, deviation, and ambition.

A clearcut is not the outward sign of a healthy economy but of an indifference to life.