Quotes About Balance

It might do you some good to remember that at the end of the day, no matter how smart that brain of yours is up there, it's your heart that needs looking after.

got to figure out before I die whether I want to be happy or I want to be right.

Press evenly," the praying mantis said, chewing off the wings of a fly.

There are good days and bad days, and as long as there aren't too many of either, you get along with your life fine.

You get to a point where you look around and you ask yourself, 'What is this doing to the rest of my family? What harm am I doing to my other children by concentrating all of my energy on rescuing this one child who will not be saved?

She would power through this unsettling freak-out by eating healthy meals, keeping herself fit, reading, sleeping and doing all of the self-care that was clearly lacking in her life.

Love doesn't keep you in a constant state of turmoil. It gives you peace.

heaven and earth, nature and man, comedy and tragedy, … the Virgin Mary and the demons...Mozart simply contains and includes all this within his music in perfect harmony. This harmony is not a matter of "balance" or "indifference" – it is a glorious upsetting of the balance, a turning in which the light rises and the shadows fall, in which the Yes rings louder than the ever-present

palabras de Fraenkel, su médico] (...) el paciente, para hacerse dueño de la enfermedad, tiene que integrarla en su vida. (...) Entre el destino y la voluntad Schicksal und Wille

I'm very severe with myself and sometimes I miss French cheese, but in your world it's not exactly the same thing.

to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, [and] criticise after dinner...

It is easy to imagine a society which, having reached a certain level of consumption, consciously decides to give absolute priority to a single goal: reduction of the work load.

We seem to live in a world where you have to walk around grinning like a loon. I can't understand all the fuss about Mona Lisa painting, everyone wondering why she's not smiling, if she's depressed or heartbroken. No, she was just normal! Emotions are always extreme these days: you either have to be crying with laughter or crying in pain. No wonder water levels are rising. It's not global warming, it's all the tears from crying.

I think happiness is a bit like a cake. If you have cake every single day of your life you'll get sick of it. If you're happy everyday, you'll get sick of being happy… That's a good saying actually. Happiness is like a cake. Have too much and you'll get sick of it.

You can have too much of a good thing. It's like when I bought the box set of The Sopranos. I loved the first few, and even though it was still good, after that I just couldn't take any more.

Ar m?lest?bu ir t?pat k? ar des?m: ir gan liesas c?kga?as ž?v?jumi, gan tradicion?l? Bolo?as desa. Visam ir sava vieta un noz?me.

As you can see, instead of HAVING...DOING...BEING, life works in better harmony when you are BEING...DOING...HAVING. After all, you are NOT a human HAVE-ing nor a Human DO-ing. You are a human BE-ing.

Wisely and slow. They stumble that ran fast. — William Shakespeare

The eat part was easy. The praying and loving were harder.

An eye for an eye," Mac said at the squadron reunion. Until everyone was blind, Teddy wondered?)

There are some Buddhist philosophers (a branch referred to as Zen) who say that sometimes a bad thing happens to prevent a worse thing happening

She would be happy -- but not excessively so....

Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally.

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.