Quotes About Balance

Yet they are also worlds of dynamism—flowing, surging, holding back—a world of almost constant movement. Here, it is as if God were saying, "I have created opposites, upper and lower, black and white, left and right. Now bring them together. Live in the lower world from the higher perspective of the world of unity.

The ability to be totally immersed in the world of history, politics, and economics, and yet remember God is the way of the most holy masters. Thus Joseph is called in Kabbalah the tzaddik or "righteous one." Tzaddik is a term for a holy person, but in Judaism a person is also required to sanctify the world. It

When we accept as angelic gifts the restraints that are given to us, the result is equanimity.

she knew there were far more important things in life than training thoroughbreds and winning races. Even if a part of her still felt as if every moment of her life had been preparing her to do just that.

She needed care and time; enough space not to feel threatened, but not so much that she could retreat.

Life is like sailing, love. It's upwind and downwind.

A thorn can only be removed with another thorn

Even elephants do slip.

Fully Filled pot does not spill

Only when in the sun do you miss the shade.

Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

There's a Spanish proverb," he said, "that's always fascinated me. "Take what you want and pay for it, says God.'" "I don't believe in God," Daniel said, "but that principle seems, to me, to have a divinity of its own; a kind of blazing purity. What could be simpler, or more crucial? You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and that you will have to pay it.

Take what you want and pay for it, says God. You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and you will have to pay it.

If you care more about them than they do about you, they hate you for it.

That's how guys work. If you care more about them than they do about you, they hate you for it.

There's a Spanish proverb," he said, "that's always fascinated me. 'Take what you want and pay for it, says God.

A man needs to know when to let things lie.

I'd rather see an apartment block any day, all charged up with people who go out to work every morning and keep this country buzzing and then come home to the nice little places they've earned, than a field doing bugger-all good to anyone except a couple of cows.

Every kid has a right to some rebellion. I'd been angelic all through school. It evens out.

I've lost count of how many times I've caught myself in the half-second before I splattered temper everywhere and stuck myself cleaning up the mess for the rest of my life.

In these rooms, the world's vast hissing tangle of shadows burns away, all its treacherous grays are honed to the stark purity of a bare blade, two-edged: cause and effect, good and evil.

Often the discrepancy works for us: people don't know who to worry about, the little girl with the gun or the big guy apparently without, and the distraction of deciding keeps them off balance.

Only teenagers think boring is bad. Adults, grown men and women who've been around the block a few times, know that boring is a gift straight from God. Life has more than enough excitement up its sleeve, ready to hit you with as soon as you're not looking, without you adding to the drama.