Quotes About Balance

As you climb to success over the dead, don't alienate the living.

How can there be so much beauty in this world amid so much sorrow? The only solution was to create more beauty.

Cautionary Moral: Don't let your heart overrule your head.

To keep your head. quit while you are ahead.

For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are countless lives of gentleness and good works who will not. We need to see and hear them, as well, to understand the whole story of religion in our world.

God delights in beauty, Islam teaches at its core, and is beauty. Beauty is in creation, not destruction, and in balance. It is in the human intellect and the human heart and in their powers to apply sacred text towards creation and knowledge that edifies and enlivens.

justice makes charity less necessary

Healing," said the poet, "is not a science but the intuitive art of wooing nature.

I learned to be wary that summer of a pious approach to life that saw good intentions and righteous prayer as substitutes for planning and pragmatic action.

Resilience is a successor to mere progress, a companion to sustainability.

try to live in this place between the two, to try to build a life there. Because finding fault and feeling hopeless about improving our situation produces resignation, of which cynicism is a symptom, a sort of futile self-protection mechanism. But on the other hand, believing blindly that everything will work

I used to think that somewhere along the line, I'd find the key to that perfect life, the way Rachel seemed to, and that once I had it, every day would be golden and easy, and everything would fit. But life isn't like that. There are only perfect, glowing moments, like this one, and then there are the everyday moments that weave them together into a shimmering path that can always be seen, even in the dark.

In most marriages, lust and love become tempered by normalcy.

Love is not all you need. Don't believe that lie

There's something about being near the ocean that puts your life in perspective. It's reassuring, that's what it is.

You could be fulfilled just the same . . . and you were also allowed to be sad once in a while.

My family's pretty intense. Like every other day, someone's having a first Communion or a christening or a baby. My mother calls me four times a day just to 'catch up.' I have to pretend the cell service sucks out here just to get some peace and quiet. I love them, but too much of a good thing, you know?

And you were right, Karma is a bitch...and I'm her best friend --Stasia, Chosen

her toes, then jerked the foot back.

Dessy, don't grow up to be a writer. Because when you live too much in your own head, you neglect the people you love and become an insulated wack job.

Really, I think my tippy state was a sign. I was supposed to see how much I was depending on Ben. I was supposed to realize that you can't depend on another person to provide your own balance.

On not crowding another person in a relationship: "Next time you're at a cemetary, look around at all the headstones. They're side by side. Even married couples. Nobody wants a plot on top of another person's plot. Why? ... Even when they're dead, people still love their own space.

I'm kind of a homebody. My husband says I like to just stay home and do nothing, but that's just how I am.

I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom.