Quotes About Balance

The key to life," he told me once, "is to avoid the highs and the lows. It's the peaks and valleys that mess you up.

How strange! How ironic! Just because a man has been created on the Equator some mad people regard him as a slave, others as a god. Where lies the mean? Where the middle way?

Un hombre no debe ser enteramente del mundo, a menos que pierda su alma, ni debe ser enteramente del espíritu, a menos que pierda su humanidad.

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids.

My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.

I go online and read the comments about me. I'm always nervous that they're going to say something mean. But a lot of people say nice things, too. It's important to keep yourself in balance. When someone writes something about me that's not true, I just try to look at it like it's funny.

I want a guy who takes charge, but lets me have my say once in a while. A good relationship is all about balance and chemistry.

Some lovers break up with each other the first time they have a big argument; some parents do as little for their children as they can get away with; some pet owners ignore their pets whenever they become inconvenient. In all of those cases, the people are unwilling to make an effort. Having a real relationship, whether with a lover or a child or a pet, requires that you be willing to balance the other party's wants and needs with your own.

From the beginning I knew my destination, and I chose my route accordingly. But am I working toward an extreme of joy, or of pain? Will I achieve a minimum, or a maximum?

The pleasure you give is returned in the pleasure you receive.

And then, our universe will be in a state of absolute equilibrium. All life and thought will cease and, with them, time itself.

Are we more fully realized when we minimize the physical part of our natures? And that, you have to agree, is a profound question.

The tendency towards equilibrium is not a trait peculiar to our universe but inherent in all universes.

I am a lover of beauty, he of humanity. Each

We shouldn't automatically accept that natural is better, nor should we automatically presume that we can improve on nature. It's up to us to decide which qualities we value, and what's the best way to achieve those.

Perhaps men were not meant to live in such a place. If their own natures restrained them from approaching heaven too closely, then men should remain on the earth.

Turn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates.

I have to write in order to keep from playing. It's a simple formula. If I play I lose even if I win. If I write I win even if I lose.

Nothing is free. Everything has to be paid for. For every profit in one thing, payment in some other thing. For every life, a death. Even your music, of which we have heard so much, that had to be paid for. Your wife was the payment for your music. Hell is now satisfied.

The wolf is living for the earth.

Illness contains the seed of health.

Chinese medicine considers important certain aspects of the human body and personality that are not significant to Western medicine.

Can you provide the necessary care? (I could.) Will such care so interfere with your own life as to create serious problems with you or your family? (It wouldn't.) Will the cost involved become unbearably expensive? (No.)