Quotes About Balance

All the men added together made the solid world-- they were the marbles in the jar, and women were whatever sand or water or air claimed the space left between them. That's how I saw things as a young woman, that was my women's studies . Now I've come to know that women are like vodka poured over men, who melt away like ice cubes.

reasonableness and positivity can feel like a kind of bullying.

Three decades of swimming, of chasing equilibrium, have kept my head firmly above water. Swimming can enable survival in ways beyond the physical.

Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.

El éxito debería llegar con una advertencia para la salud: para el adicto al trabajo y para quienes lo rodean.

Un trabajo es un sitio donde haces algo que, en el fondo, no te gusta durante unas ocho horas al día cinco o seis días a la semana a cambio de dinero que te permita hacer el fin de semana las cosas que te gustaría hacer todo el tiempo.

It is discouraging to find a woman who knows much about theoretical chemistry, and who cannot properly wash and iron a shirt.

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

The key thing is to be "Conservative in principle but Liberal in sympathy".

The Thai have a proverb, "Sweet sickens, bitter heals'.

Competition, which is said to be "the life of trade," when pushed too far, is no less the death of it--and of the soul.

The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.

Let a man restore order within himself, and chaos without ceases.

Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth.

For every great evil, apparently irremediable, there is reserved, it is probable, somewhere in the design of Providence, an effectual remedy.

Our happiness depends chiefly upon the estimate we form of life, and the efforts we make to bring ourselves into harmony with its laws.

In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the only sure foundation of power in a writer.

Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.

We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.

Our meetinghouses are designed so that we may enjoy socials, dancing, drama, even sports. All of these are important. But these auxiliary activities should be subdued when compared with what the world is doing.

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

first, it is of vital importance that you learn to be lost both in experience and in your mind, but not permanently, so that you get the avenue of escape each offers from the other.