Quotes About Balance

Cuando Malin volvía, él trataba de convencerla de salir, de ir al cine, de ir a caminar por el barrio y sentarse en un café a hablar de libros y de poesía, pero ella llegaba exhausta y nada más quería bañarse, comer algo ligero, leer y dormir. Se comenzaron a resentir mutuamente. Para

Pan cierpi, bo Pan za du?o od siebie wymaga. I od innych. Stanowczo za du?o.

This way of thinking suggests that nothing is perfection - or at least, perfect symmetry, which to many physicists is the same thing. Nothing is perfect, but not very interesting.

Real life's only bearable if you don't have to live in it all the time

I felt other Christian charities and ministries of compassion were wrong in showing the love of Christ. No, many were doing a wonderful job. But I felt the local church should be the center for outreach, and we needed to bring the balance back.

But darkness, too, really existed, as light's opposite pole.

Two inconsistent duties sever My mind with cruel shock, As when the current of a river Is split upon a rock.

We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity.

Between the poles of the conscious and the unconscious, there has the mind made a swing: Thereon hang all beings and all worlds, and that swing never ceases its sway. (pg. 16)

The devout seeker is he who mingles in his heart the double currents of love and detachment, like the mingling of the streams of Ganges and Jumna.

Like Paul the tent-maker, Boehme the cobbler, Bunyan the tinker, Tersteegen the ribbon-maker, he knew how to combine vision and industry; the work of his hands helped rather than hindered the impassioned meditation of his heart.

The Work is to bring the outer and the inner into harmony. (p. 103)

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. / Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf / Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, / Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has really been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much.

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.

He wanted to be on good terms with the Washington generals," Dyson observed, "and to be a savior of humanity at the same time.

The very least we can conclude is that our twenty-thousandth bomb . . . will not in any deep strategic sense offset their two-thousandth.

my own conviction is that one should use moods, but not be greatly deflected by them; thus one should try to use the gay times to do those things one wants to do which require gaiety, and the sober moods for the work one wants, and the low moods for giving oneself hell.

Oppenheimer quite naturally found it comforting to be told by Bohr that the contradictions in life were nevertheless all of a piece—and therefore complementary.

The kind of person that I admire most would be one who becomes extraordinarily good at doing a lot of things but still maintains a tear-stained countenance.