Quotes About Balance

Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think.

the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything)

Everything depends on knowing how much," she said, and "Good is knowing when to stop.

For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.

It's not about choosing somebody over her. It's about making space for somebody along with her.

I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.

We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.

The sun and the moon shared the horizon in a distant friendship, each unfazed by the other.

They did not believe Nature was ever askew–only inconvenient. Plague and drought were as "natural" as springtime. If milk could curdle, God knows robins could fall.

Good is knowing when to stop.

some advice about how to keep on with a brain greedy for news nobody could live with in a world happy to provide it.

And the lives of these old black women were synthesized in their eyes- a puree of tragedy and humor, wickedness and serenity, truth and fantasy.

Everything depends on knowing how much...Good is knowing when to stop.

Everything depends on knowing how much {and} Good is knowing when to stop.

A perfect thing is not everything.

He wanted her in that room with him giving him the balance he was losing, the ballast and counterweight to the stone of sorrow New York City had given him.

But the important thing is that I don't do anything else. I avoid social life normally associated with publishing. I don't go to the cocktail parties, I don't give or go to dinner parties. I need that time in the evening because I can do a tremendous amount of work then. And I can concentrate. When I sit down to write I never brood. I have so many other things to do, with my children and teaching, that I can't afford it...

There's a line between revision and fretting, just working it to death." —Toni Morrison

Plenty should not be regulated to a paradisiacal state, but to normal, everyday, humane life.

Luke 10:38–42

Family must come first after God. It's how He designed our lives to function.

dialectics, as a veteran communist explained . . . 'is the art and technique of always landing on your feet.

Our problem is to work out a social organization which shall be as efficient as possible without offending our notions of a satisfactory way of life." —JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

The uncharming qualities of capitalism are its middle ground.