Quotes About Balance

Many toxic parents compare one sibling unfavorably with another to make the target child feel that he's not doing enough to gain parental affection. This motivates the child to do whatever the parents want in order to regain their favor. This divide-and-conquer technique is often unleashed against children who become a little too independent, threatening the balance of the family system.

actual artists, and despite their reputation for chaos, most artists keep their supplies and work spaces scrupulously tidy. It's the personal lives that get messy. Dusk

Equanimity is based on the knowledge that everything changes and will always change and that is okay. We find equanimity only by paying close attention to what is happening in the moment.

All beauty must have its imperfections, all happiness its share of sorrow.

Life is about shifting the balance in favor of change, and try as we might to hold on forever to the best of moments, it's simply impossible.

Emotions are part of our soul's anatomy. Having them available is a gift; clinging to them is not.

make sure you're all right.

Just because it's natural doesn't mean you can be as stupid as you want with it.

Yet where lies the line between compromise and surrender? Between relinquishing the ideal of perfection on the one hand, and losing one's integrity on the other?

Giving up one activity does not guarantee you will take up a more worthy substitute.

They loved their children, but parenting was all-consuming sometimes, to the point where you felt yourself barely hanging on to the you that didn't lose it just because your child spilled milk.

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be happy. And sometimes you have to find those happy places in between the pain.

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be happy. Sometimes you have to find the happy places between the pain.

Funny that when skies were clear, he was the storm. But in the middle of the storm…He was the calm.

He thought she'd slow him down. He could barely keep up with her.

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be happy. Sometimes you have to find the happy places between the pain.

You have to learn to live life in the middle of the danger. And trust that there's a bigger plan.

They aren't afraid to take risks, but they don't gamble. They are generous but not extravagant. They thrive on beauty of economics, the fact that it is both art and science.

Shut your eyes to the world of pain, and you also shut your eyes to the world of delight.

Unless you were high up in a building or happened to glimpse it at the end of one of the big avenues going east-west, all you knew of the sunset was a darkening in the air. No wonder people in New York were so unbalanced. They were totally untouched by the rhythms of nature. You were only aware of nature when something extreme happened, like a snowstorm or heatwave.

Keeping an eye on the way the world ought to be, while never losing sight of the way it is, requires permanent, precarious balance. It requires facing squarely the fact that you never get the world you want, while refusing to talk yourself out of wanting it.

Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.

Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida, swamped by incongruity and paradox, and I have to start all over again.

Library users are eighty percent male, and librarians are eighty percent female, so that's something to keep in mind.