Quotes About Balance

You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course. That's what I've been trying to do.

There's a fullness of time for things, Lily. You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.

I am the coming together and the falling apart. I am the enduring and the disintegration...

You know what? You think too much. It would do you a world of good to stop thinking and just go with your feelings once in a blue moon.

since for all I knew, people might come back one day as the very thing they killed.

August said, "You know what? You think too much. It would do you a world of good to stop thinking and just go with your feelings once in a blue moon.

There is a time to be gentle and a time to be fierce

Anger is effortless, Lucian. Kindness is hard. Try to exert yourself

I believe that a healthy sharing of oneself is a holy call, but so is caring for ourselves and taking time for the beautiful mysteries God created within us. The important thing is balance. Being a martyr distorts the virtuous ideal of giving to others by crossing over into victim postures and a self-denial that squelches selfhood and the creative life of the soul.

Anger is effortless, Lucian. Kindness is hard.

The human soul needs a divine mother, a feminine aspect to balance out the masculinity of God, and yes, Mary had carried it off the best she could.

There was something strangely beautiful about this, the coming together of two ways of life that I'd thought irreconcilable: duty and longing

I am the coming together and the falling apart

May Sarton novel, The Reckoning, Ella writes to her friend Laura, "Do you suppose growing up always means diluting [our] fierce purpose for the sake of others?"4

One of nature's most healing gifts to us, though, is its reminder to us to stay grounded and connected to the natural cycles of life.

The two most powerful impulses in my life have been the urge to create and the urge to be – a set of opposites – and they have always clunked into each other. How very like them to do so right now.

The main thing is to stop struggling and nourish yourself. When you nourish yourself, your creative energy is renewed. You are able to pick up your lyre again and sing.

to hold opposing ideas in my head without conflict.

ecological self"—a term author Joanna Macy uses to describe one who has conquered the personal ego and knows that she or he is not separate from anything else.

Is this idea of yours to help the Cuttingmasters, or is it really to advance your career?" With a knowing smile, she said, "Is there any reason I can't do both? That is what you have been doing all your life. Ambition is not a dirty word for men.

You can only drive yourself crazy if you have no distance from the world

If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete.

Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.

If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.