Quotes About Balance

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

There exists a great chasm between those, on one side, who relate everything to a single central vision ... and, on the other side, those who pursue many ends, often unrelated and even contradictory ... The first kind of intellectual and artistic personality belongs to the hedgehogs, the second to the foxes.

Disciplined inaction.

unfortuneately a super abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential of nightmares

Art is the perfection of nature.

There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.

Rules only make sense if they are both kept and broken. Breaking the rule is one way of observing it.

Give me, next good, an understanding wife,By nature wise, not learned much by art.

Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith - the one great moving force which we can neither weigh in the balance nor test in the crucible.

The clean tongue, the clear head and the bright eye are birth rights of each day

The uniformly pretty waitresses discussed the finer points of cocaine, Quaaludes, and other intoxicants, arguing for this one or that, with the energy of young philosophers. My fellow workers read my silence on the subject as moral condemnation, but in truth, I've always been afraid of drugs. The jolts and tingles that might be gained from these substances don't attract me. My interest has always been in maintaining balance, not tipping it.

You can have children and love them with all your heart and soul, and love your family, and it's still OK to have a fire in you. That doesn't have anything to do with your family.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love.

Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring.

The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.

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.

I do not believe that to be religious in the best, authentic sense a man has to destroy his love life and mummify himself, body and soul.

A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned.

A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.

The spirit of love and good art have equal beauty

The trapeze was my first love. To me, it's normal. It's all I've ever known.

If you're in love with someone maybe you can show it too much.

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe. [Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris, (Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]