Quotes About Balance

Almighty God created sexual desire in ten parts; then he gave nine parts to women and one to men." —Ali ibn Abu Taleb, husband of Muhammad's daughter Fatima and founder of the Shiite sect of Islam

Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.

Het gaat slecht, verder gaat het goed.

The body needs to be thrown out of equilibrium from time to time, it needs a good poisoning.

Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?

As long as one sex held power over the other, they would never be able to find out what differences there really were between the sexes -- psychically - if there were any at all.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

we can find a balanced way forward that will allow us to embrace technology but not become technology, to use it as a tool and not as a purpose.

Do not forget: in medicine, there are more important things than life and death: dollars and cents.

The harmony and unity in a church will never exceed the harmony and unity in the homes represented in the congregation.

A garden is the best alternative therapy

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.

Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.

Let your head be more than a funnel to your stomach

Joy and sorrow are next door neighbors

Medicines are not meat to live by.

A hedge between keeps friendship green.

He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind.

Love your neighbor, but don't tear down your fence.

The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills. ("The Striding Place")

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'