Quotes About Balance

You go on by finding a channel for your love and another for your rage.

Don't stay when you know you should go or go when you know you should stay. Don't fight when you should hold steady or hold steady when you should fight.

Do you know what boundaries are? The best, sanest people on the planet do.

transformation often depends that we separate our emotional responses from our rational minds.

No is golden. No is the kind of power the good witch wields. It's the way whole, healthy, emotionally evolved people manage to have relationships with jackasses while limiting the amount of jackass in their lives.

The truest story is always the widest one. It's the one that folds in the highs alongside the lows, the losses alongside the gains. It looks forward and back. It runs in a jagged line rather than a straight one. It tells us we must go on, even when going on seems impossible.

You loathe yourself, and yet you're consumed by the grandiose ideas you have about your own importance. You're up too high and down too low. Neither is the place where we get any work done.

Transformation often demands that we separate our emotional responses from our rational minds

But transformation often demands that we separate our emotional responses from our rational minds.

You're up too high and down too low. Neither is the place where we get any work done.

True intimacy isn't a psychodrama. It isn't the "highest highs and lowest lows". It's communion and mellow compatibility. It's friendship and mutual respect.

Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life.

In one of his most popular essays, "The Colloid and the Crystal," the nature writer Joseph Wood Krutch wrote about these opposing forces in nature. "Order and obedience are the primary characteristics of that which is not alive," he wrote. "Life is rebellious and anarchical.

The mediocrity principle establishes our worth as equal to that of the universe.

To know if only half; to love is the other half.

History teaches that evil at its most exalted is merely a wretched excess of good.

You think too much. That's the problem with you intellectual types. You spend so much time thinking about life that you can't live.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us.

Nature designed with a random set of genes and circumstances in which we were born. To be happy, we have to accept it and make the most of nature's design. Are you? Goals will help you do that. I must add, don't just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life. I use the word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all in good order.

Thank you. For showing me what love is all about. And thank you for also teaching me to never love someone too much.

How can God give girls so much power ? How can they turn productive,busy and ambitious men into a wilting mass of uselessness. Page 204

Work hard, but make time for you love, family and friends. Nobody remembers powerpoint presentations on your final day

Frustration is a sign that somewhere you took things too seriously. Unfairness

God gives talent so that the ordinary person can become extraordinary. Talent is the only way the poor can become rich. Otherwise, in this world the rich would remain rich and the poor would remain poor. This unfair talent actually creates a balance, helps to make the world fair