Quotes About Balance

It is easy to lose ourselves in corporate imperatives, to feel we are beholden to forces that might not be aligned with our personal aspirations and priorities, or with how we wish to give expression to our lives.

There were times when Pizlo knew he thought too much, and other times when he thought he knew too much. This time was neither of those.

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

Each of us has only a quantum of compassion ... if we lavish our concern on every stray cat, we never get to the centre of things.

Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?

Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.

A realist is a man who knows both the world and his own dreams.

There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.

Once you have learned to do your dreaming wide awake, to balance your sanity not on the razor's edge of reason but on the double support, the fine balance, of reason and dream; once you have learned that, you cannot unlearn it any more than you can unlearn to think.

I love being healthy. I get a lot of sleep. I'm a girl who eats. And I feel beautiful no matter how I look. I have my family to thank for that.

his species could end, a victim of people who valued themselves above other creatures of nature. We

It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson.

a person should not have to choose between doing good and doing well

As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other.

I like to think I'm positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.

The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

And as we wind on down the road Our shadows taller than our souls There walks a lady we all know Who shines white light and wants to show How everything still turns to gold And if you listen very hard The tune will come to you at last Where all are one and one is all To be a rock and not to roll.

It's hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It's hard to switch gears.

Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other.

I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.