Quotes About Balance

The truth is usually somewhere in the gray turbulent eddies set in motion by the mixture of black and white.

You messed up with the wrong Angel. My weapon is a double-edge sword. One side of the blade represents Truth and the other represents Karma.

There's such a thing as moderation even in telling the truth.

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.

Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty.

To understand the future of technology, we need to begin with one fundamental truth: Technology is natural.

The truth is, if anyone saw my home life, I'm pretty sure it would look like other families' around the world. There's a lot of juggling to be done.

Its not how strong you are, its how firm your footing is.

I Take Life Very Seriously: One Joke At A Time.

I've often mused over the idea that madness is actually a sane reaction to an insane world.

tension is the opposite of peace - but tension is the brother of silence.

The nice thing about being an adolescent is being able to make mature decisions when you need them and being able to just flow alone with life when you don't.

the laugh seemed to suggest, anyone who thought destruction was more powerful than creation was a fool.

Personal purifying is the beginning of everything," MacKaye said. "Once you get your own shit together, once you get your own mind together, it makes life for you and the people around you so much more agreeable and understandable as opposed to constant fucking problems.

The idea behind K, as Johnson put it, was to strike "a good balance between running a business and helping people get their thing done." As he wrote in one of K's catalogs, "There are many different ways to measure success besides with a calculator.

Maybe the people who feel the need to create and express themselves also need to cloud that over sometimes," Westerberg explained in a more candid moment. "Sometimes you don't want to be creative. You just want to be normal and not have to worry, or think, or write. People will then turn to distractions like drugs, liquor, or whatever.

If you are spending more time matching your Kitchenaid to your kettle to your cupboards than you are cooking, something is very wrong.

All will be as it should; that is how the world is made.

On balance, most of the time, in the ordinary course of life, it was probably best to say what was in your heart, to share what was on your mind, to tell the people you loved that you loved them, to ask those you had harmed to forgive you and to confront those who had hurt you with the truth about the damage they had done. When it came to things that needed to be said, speech was always preferable to silence, but it was of no use at all in the presence of the unspeakable.

You hope to spend your life doing what you love and need and have been fitted by nature or God or your protein-package to do: write, draw, sing, tell stories. But you have to eat.

Taking pains, working hard, not flaunting his or her chops so much as relying on them, the pop artisan teeters on a fine fulcrum between the stern, sell-the-product morality of the workhorse and the artist's urge to discover a pattern in, or derive a meaning from, the random facts of the world.

This effort had, in fact, come to represent a necessary counterbalance to the daily trial of mere coping, a hopeful inoculation against its wasting effects.

The strip lay poised on the needle-sharp fulcrum between the marvelous and the vulgar that was, to Rosa, the balancing point of Surrealism itself.

it's like the laws of physics—for every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction. If you go into darkness, the darkness goes into you. You then have to decide what to do with it. How to keep yourself safe from it. How to keep it from hollowing you out.