Quotes About Balance

What if I'm destined to be single for the rest of my life, and you're upsetting the balance of nature and God's plan?

Actually, if I don't eat healthy food I don't feel good. For me, I crave healthy food.

Sometimes guys are so concerned with being cool and hanging out with their friends. They don't want to seem like the guy that 'has to call his girlfriend.' It's just boys growing up.

And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly...

The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.

You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular powerful you?

Terrible beautiful combination of happiness and pain.

And maybe that was how it was supposed to be, how life unfolded when you lived it long enough. Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps, was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly because you never knew when a strong heart could just give out.

The man whose interests are all outside is never satisfied with what is necessary, but is perpetually hankering after something more and better which, true to his bias, he always seeks outside himself. He forgets completely that, for all his outward successes, he himself remains the same inwardly. . .Obviously the outward lives of men could do with a lot more bettering and beautifying, but those things lose their meaning when the inner man does not keep pace with them.

The soul needs your recklessness, not your wisdom.

The natural state of the human psyche consists in a jostling together of its components and in their contradictory behavior... The reconciliation of these opposites is a major problem. Thus, the adversary is none other than 'the other in me.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

I always separated sports and my personal life.

Is this perfection, or the cost of it?

As if sometimes the world really did amount to a quiet arrangement.

During the process of therapy the individual comes to ask himself, in regard to ever-widening areas of his life-space, "How do I experience this?" "What does it mean to me?" "If I behave in a certain way how do I symbolize the meaning which it will have for me?" He comes to act on a basis of what may be termed realism—a realistic balancing of the satisfactions and dissatisfactions which any action will bring to himself.

People have told me that a wolf looks right through you. But you know what I realize? That's because a wolf isn't interested in you. It's always hard for humans to accept that we're not the most important thing anyone's ever seen.

I don't mean to imply that I value the life of a fish or a bird the same way I value a human life, but their presence in the world has as much validity as does our presence. Perhaps more: they were here first; they are foundational to us. They take only what they need. They are compatible with the life around them.

It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.

A man must find time for himself. Time is what we spend our lives with. If we are not careful we find others spending it for us. . . . It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?' . . . If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time—the stuff of life.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

The state of crisis is the real war; the equilibrium is nothing but its reflex.