Quotes About Balance

Real strength isn't control. It's knowing when to let go.

You're both treated fairly," she said, "but sometimes people require different things for true fairness.

We all perform balancing acts between self and family, individual and community, private desire and group expectation. Gay people in particular must break with the groupthink of church and society in order to live their own lives. (It's why you still see half-read copies of Atlas Shrugged on the night tables of otherwise intelligent gay men.)

A career in the arts can make anyone crazy.

It was possible to love life, without loving your life.

Justice is not a static ideal; it is not the maintenance of some steady state in society. The accent in biblical justice falls on positive action, the exercising of power to resist the oppressor and set the oppressed free. This is why Amos pictures justice as a thundering river that than as in the Western tradition, a neatly balanced set of scales [Amos 5:21-24].

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.

I find it most remarkable that we who are so intimately involved in the battle between good and evil are even more involved with the shades of gray in between them.

But shopping, cooking and housework must not be allowed to consume all of one parent's time. Both parents need precious time together with their child.

Así que, tanto si eres hombre como mujer, para vencer el miedo a ser tú mismo, es importante saber si estás en armonía con las fuerzas femeninas del mundo natural, ya que es la fuerza curativa para esta clase de miedo.

Passionate subjects must be dealt with in cold blood.

Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

I used to be driven, but I pulled over.

Alwyn's mother could not square her identity as a sexualized woman with that of being a mother

But my illness, even in its absence, made it hard for me to enjoy life. Good health means being unaware of one's health. I was not yet unaware.

But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance.

But I also want to have a family with children one day, which is very important to me.

I love when I go out and I have my hair and makeup done, but I also like it when I'm just with the family because that's real.

It's not difficult for me to stay healthy. I like healthy food.

Your Workout and the Baby Race

If you can laugh, you're less likely to cry.

Schmal-der schmalste Weg den wir kennen, ist der auf der Schneide eines Messers...

How should those of us of no great education challenge him at table when he compared the efficiency of lions and camels and arrived at the conclusion that the carnivorous lion was far less efficient than the camel in the desert, which ate plants and grass.