Quotes About Balance

Our work goes wrong when we lose touch with the God who works "his salvation in the midst of the earth." It goes wrong both when we work anxiously and when we don't work at all, when we become frantic and compulsive in our work (Babel) and when we become indolent and lethargic in our work (Thessalonica).

realized that consistency, a trait I had long esteemed, was sometimes not such a virtue after all.

was about staying rooted while also growing. It was about having one foot planted on firm, familiar ground, while another toed new and unfamiliar ground.

After all, you can't unwind your most important relationships first, then bide your time with those loved ones while unwinding far less significant relationships

An hour of contemplation is preferable to a lifetime of ambition, though neither produces tangible results.

Young enough to keep trying, old enough to know better.

Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks and so may no one touch you who loves you.

Per me l'ago della bilancia sei sempre tu. M'hanno chiesto chi sei. Se lo sapessi lo direi a gran voce. E sarei chiuso tra quelle sbarre donde non s'esce più.

True empowerment of students, I came to realize, necessarily means a certain disempowerment of teachers.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honornor any worthiness.

These men won eight victories over the Syracusans when the favor of the gods was equal for both sides.

Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

My love for you was greater than my wisdom.

It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.

Pleasure exists in middle time, in time that is neither too accelerated or too slowed down.

The soul can shrivel from am excess of critical distance, and if I don't want to remain in arid internal exile for the rest of my life, I have to find a way to lose alienation without losing my self. But how does one bend toward another culture without falling over, how does one strike an elastic balance between rigidity and self-effacement?

Dostoyevsky was her brother, Victorian children's books her passion and though she lived, when in funds, mainly on avocado pears, she took her bath each night with a different cookery book.

We mustn't only remember the good bits," she said. "We must remember the bad bits, too, so that we know it was real.

You can't have a relationship when you're shooting a 14-hour day and your husband is shooting a 14-hour day in the same city. It's a time thing and it's a together thing.

I don't like my men to be too ornate. I like them to stand back and let their women shine, and they should really wear the pants in the relationship.