Quotes About Balance

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent; but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet;In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

Knowing too much is very apt to make us troublesome to other people

Spoon goes to bowl's house; bowl never goes to spoon's house. --Haitian proverb

I am very boring, but it has allowed me to survive better than other people. If you don't drink, you don't smoke, and you don't do drugs, and you're not missing it and never even wanted it, and you sleep for seven hours. I tell you, life is quite pleasant.

On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids?

You don't spend your money while you're making it. You don't have time.

One cannot say everything at once.

The Lotus opens. Movement from earth, through water, from fire to air. Out and in beyond life and death now, beyond inner and outer, sense and non-sense, meaning and futility, male and female, being and non-being, Light and darkness, void and full. Beyond all duality, or non-duality, beyond and beyond. Disincarnation. I breathe again.

Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.

Mercy, she had discovered, made mad alchemy: a drop of it could dilute a lake of hate.

Is it good or bad?" she asked Issa. The wrong question, she knew. She just couldn't help herself. "It's both, sweet girl," said Issa. "like everything.

Being near her was like balancing on a tipping world, trying to keep your footing as the ground wanted to roll you forward, hurl you into a spiral from which there was no recovery, only impact, and it was a longed-for impact, a sweet and beckoning collision.

Akiva felt the tilt of the world trying to tip him forward: to be nearer to her--nearer and touching--as though that were the only state of rest, and every other action and movement were geared to achieving it.

Cats and ghosts both partook of the saucers of milk and that was okay. They consumed different parts of it: the cats its substance, the ghosts its essence, and none went to waste.

Our priestesses have always taught that divinity, by virtue of its great power, must encompass both beauty and terror.

Magnets collide, and swiftly align.

To take from the universe, you must give.

It's not free, Karou. Magic has a price. The price is pain.

He would recognize this later as the moment his center of gravity shifted: from being one of one—a pillar alone, apart—to being half of something that would fall if either side were cut away.

Life and peace. Victory and vengeance. And never the twain shall meet.

Push the chair in too quickly or too slowly, or else sit too soon or too heavily, and misadventure ensues, perhaps even an unintended baptism of the hindquarters.

now, she had to be strong enough to look weak.