Quotes About Balance

I'm not sure that finding a husband at university made me any less of a feminist or an academic. I still soaked up Susan Faludi; I still read Doris Lessing. But I did it at the same time I met someone who I felt was my soulmate.

"A soulmate is someone whose way of viewing life is not necessarily the same as yours but complements yours. There is not a compromise, there is a complement."

"A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King."

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

No matter how successful you are in your career, you must always remember that we are here to live. If you keep yourself busy working, you will surely regret it.

To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall.

One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.

Love is unconditional, relationships are not.

It is said the warrior's is the twofold Way of pen and sword, and he should have a taste for both ways.

"One's not half of two, two are halves of one."

Marriage: sometimes soulmates, sometimes cellmates.

" He is my North, my South, my East and West, my working week and my Sunday rest."

I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.

If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our activities will not be prefect.

In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions, and we don't overuse it or abuse it - that's a waste.

My life is a constant struggle between what they want me to be, what I want me to be, and who I'm being instead.

Karma, simply put, is an action for an action ... good or bad.

The man spends half of his life trying, and the other half is preventing.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

It's simple. Eat well, exercise and get lots of sleep but make sure you indulge occasionally. At my age , I think , what the hell , and eat a Krispy Kreme doughnut !