Quotes About Balance

There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good. Everyone chooses. But even they, even they looked at people and saw only tools. No one is a cup for another to drink from.

Life is beautiful and life is stupid. As long as you keep that in mind, and never give more weight to one than the other, the history of the galaxy, the history of a planet, the history of a person is a simple tune with lyrics flashed on-screen and a helpful, friendly bouncing disco ball of glittering, occasionally peaceful light to help you follow along. Cue the music. Cue the dancers. Cue tomorrow.

Everything good in the world has feathers and wings and claws.

She had a highly developed sense of humor which in some lights looked a bit like a sense of justice.

Being stern was like being underwater-she could do it, but never for long, and how her whole boy burned to come up for breath!

We are halves, but we make an infinite whole.

Temperament, you'll find, is highly dependent on time of day, weather, frequency of naps, and whether one has had enough to eat. The

Most people don't like complexity. They would prefer the world to be simple.

Comparatively, our private blunders are insignificant. Just part of the general pattern of human awfulness. We map our little disasters onto a beautiful picture of a great one, so that there's continuity. So that there's balance. We fail because we always fail. It's not our fault. For evidence, see the paradise we lack.

upper body to hold them steady.

Perhaps there's a barometer of happiness that registers when you've been happy for too long and brings you back in line.

Food, love, mother and career: the four basic guilt groups.

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

Mothers, food, love, and career - the four major guilt groups.

Women could survive on their own and men needed a woman in their life.

You don't have to put yourself on fire to keep somebody else warm.

book of life, every page have two sides.'" "The

He didn't believe that life was just getting a job you hated and working really hard at it so you could earn enough money to have periodic fun.

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.

So, you are happy to be a pigeon?" "Maybe so. But at least a pigeon does no harm. The hawk lives at the expense of the other creatures that dwell in the desert.

if her husband and children are suffering from her absence or her preoccupation with politics, then this is not Islam." It

I have come to think it is a fault in us, to credit what we give in such a case, and never to consider what must be given up in order to receive it. - Bethia Mayfield

It galls me, when I catch a stray remark from the master, or between the older English pupils, to the effect that the Indians are uncommonly fortunate to be here. I have come to think it is a fault in us, to credit what we give in such a case, and never to consider what must be given up in order to receive it. And yet, it is not for me to weigh this balance: Christ, and knowledge against a pagan pantheon and an unaccomodated wilderness existence.

You cannot right injustice by injustice.