Quotes About Balance

It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health.

If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal.

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

The problem is that those of us who are lucky enough to do work that we love are sometimes cursed with too damn much of it.

Someone noted that in this culture we worship our work, play at our worship, and work at our play.

Sarah: That's not fair! Jareth: You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?

One must be willing to be cruel in the search for truth, but cruelty for no purpose is ignorance.

three cardinal rules for going faster: 1. Balance your body in the water. 2. Make your body longer. 3. Swim on your side.

we cannot ignore the enemy of our souls, but neither should we lavish attention on him.

We're kind to the pigs and the chickens as well, mama. But then butchery comes and we prosper. It is the way of things.

Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out. . . . No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.

Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.

Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease and burnt crunchy bits.

Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the 'rich' is likely to result in an economic burnout.

They say there is a fine line between genius & insanity....so I picked it up & went fishing

Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect too much of myself. As women, we hold the moon in our bellies. It is too much to ask to operate on full-moon energy three hundred and sixty-five days a year. I am in a crescent phase.

The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world.

Since when did pursuit of quality of life trump actual quaility of life?

The different colors represent the husband and the wife. What will happen when they're kneaded together? The colors could mix; they could divide neatly down the middle; one color could completely overwhelm the other—whatever happens, the two smaller balls are going to smash together and recreate themselves as a one, slightly bigger ball. That's my take on marriage.

There's a lot more to ridin' a horse than just sittin' in the saddle and lettin' yer feet hang down.

The hand would chastise the head.

303]No doubt my reader wonders how cats and rats, two races so hostile to each other, and the one of which is the prey of the other, can manage to live together. The fact is that mine got on wonderfully harmoniously together. The cats were good as gold to the rats, which had lost all fear of them.

THE LIFE OF A WARRIOR MUST BE CONTAINED. IF YOU ARE GOING TO SUCCEED AS A WARRIOR YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO WASTE YOUR PERSONAL POWER IN LIVING A LIFE WHICH IS HELTER-SKELTER.

When one looks at the world directly, the eyes fixate the assemblage point, and no more movement is possible. Under such conditions there can be no fluidity or sobriety. Therefore one should not look at the world directly; that is, one should not stare, but glance around casually and at ease. This is true even if one is using the inner vision to look at one's own inner world.