Quotes About Balance

Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

Some of his colleagues, as he was well aware, even went so far as to say he dishonoured the medical profession. As though it could be dishonoured! There is pain and sickness, agreed. But pain and sickness represent money, and you need money to live, to feel well and look after others. That is the inevitable cycle. When it comes to money, it is difficult to strike a happy mean and stick to it. You either make too much money, or too little. It is safer to make too much.

Much of our lack of peace is the result of willingly exploiting ourselves by creating an overextended, imbalanced lifestyle organized around trying to accumulate what we often do not need and which is detrimental to our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being.

At this point in our planetary history, if we are simply to survive, we need to follow the law of unity between humanity and nature. If we keep trying to break the laws of nature, they will eventually break us.

Peace is not something that happens by accident. Peace is like silence; it is always there. The lack of harmony in our lives is like noise superimposed on the silence. The issue is not how to create peace, but how to live in a way that eliminates the noise.

Move forward with the proper balance of caution and panicked haste.

The gods give, like twin flowers, power and ruin, memory and oblivion.

I am a school teacher doing life and death sums.

Fair is the stick by which parents of more than one child are driven.

I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.

My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.

I can't sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children.

We hear all around us to love ourselves, and one of the ways we can do that is to eat food that serves our body, but also for us to love the food we're eating.

Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.

Ci vuole disciplina per essere uno spirito libero

If you just set people in motion they'll heal themselves.

All healing journeys begin and end in the body.

Quant à Mme Létourneau, sa pauvre âme timide, aimante et faible avait si longtemps cherché à mettre ces deux êtres d'accord qu'elle était devenue comme un miroir qui reflétait avec excès la vivacité de son fils et la grave dignité de son mari.

When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?

That love is all there is; is all we know of love. It is enough; the freight should be proportioned to the groove." What is the "freight"? he wondered. What is the "groove"?

They say success kills relationships, but the lack of it will do it just as quickly.

We agree to be disappointed sometimes so that we can be exhilarated every now and again.