Quotes About Balance

You forget who submits, Eva," he said gruffly. "I've given up control for you. I've bent and adjusted for you. I'll do anything to keep you and make you happy. But I won't be tamed or topped. Don't mistake indulgence for weakness.

Marriage isn't about whether you're strong enough as an individual. It's about how strong you are together and the luxury of taking turns carrying the load.

I pay other people a generous salary so i can be with you.

It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.

The sky leans on me, me, the one upright among all horizontals.

After all, I wasn't crippled in any way, I just studied too hard, I didn't know when to stop.

Remember how you asked me where would I like to live best, the country or the city? And you said... And I said I wanted to live in the country and in the city both?

No matter how much you knelt and prayed, you still had to eat three meals a day and have a job and live in the world.

The only trouble was, Church, even the Catholic Church, didn't take up the whole of your life. No matter how much you knelt and prayed, you still had to eat three meals a day and have a job and live in the world.

The only problem was, Church, even the Catholic Church, didn't take up the whole of your life No matter how much you knelt and prayed, you still had to eat three meals a day and have a job and live in the world.

Cîte zile-oi mai avea, o s? zbor încoace È™i încolo între lucruri care se exclud reciproc.

Jeg er ikke sikker på hvorfor, men jeg elsker mat mer enn nesten noe annet. Samme hvor mye jeg spiser, legger jeg aldri på meg. Med ett unntak har jeg veid det samme i årevis.

And I said I wanted to live in the country and in the city both?

I didn't think I deserved it. After all, I wasn't crippled in any way, I just studied too hard, I didn't know when to stop.

Lo único que hacía era estudiar demasiado, y nunca sabía cuándo debía detenerme.

I write and think and study perfectly when with him; apart, I'm split and only can work properly in brief, stoic spells.

After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one son and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of the race.

I write and think and study perfectly when with him; apart, I'm split and only can work properly in brief, stoic spells. . . .

I am learning how to compromise the wild dream ideals and the necessary realities without such screaming pain.

I'LL BE FLYING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN ONE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE THING AND ANOTHER FOR THE REST OF MY DAYS!!!

two over-lapping circles, with a certain strong riveted centre of common ground, but both with separate arcs jutting out in the world. A balanced tension, adaptable to circumstances, in which there is an elasticity of pull, tension, yet firm unity . . . . I do not believe . . . that artistic creativity can best be indulged in masterful singleness rather than in marital cooperation. I think that a workable union should heighten the potentialities in both individuals.

whole emphasis has swung again, to a realization that if I enter this academic, critical world, I'll spend all my time reading and reading, and that I need a healthy overturning of the apple-cart, almost a refusal to read beyond a point, and to read more of what influences my writing, rather

I have the choice of being active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

For every giver there must be a receiver, and for every receiver there must be a giver.