Quotes About Balance

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

We know everything about the Earth now, except how to keep her alive.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.

The truth lies somewhere between the reasons and the stories.

I remembered only the good and loveable things about him, not the wretchedness he caused me, and the dope, and the resentments and silence and the half-crazy outbursts. I remembered his smell and the colour of his eyes and his head thrown back to laugh; these things were a second away, in time, but the others I dredged up dutifully, knowing that I must, for the sake of truth and sanity, try to keep a balance.

What is demonstrably the case is that Franco did Hitler the colossal service of altering the European balance of power in favour of the German-Italian Axis, while Spanish Republican resistance, achieved for nearly three years in the teeth of British policy, actively delayed other forms of Nazi aggression in Europe and, in so doing, made Britain itself a priceless gift of time to re-arm.

We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together.... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

It's so hard to get life right, she thinks, pulling the blanket tight around her shoulders. All the small balances are impossible to strike most of the time. And then there are the larger choices.

It's so hard to get life right, she thinks, pulling the blanket tight around her shoulders. All the small balances are impossible to strike most of the time. And then there are the larger choices. It's hopeless. She might as well be one of those gannets, tossed about by the gusts of wind that drive up from the Atlantic.

Flight is not the astonishing thing. I have always thought that the miracle of birds is not that they fly, but that they touch down.

We have built our houses between what is fluid and what is fixed.

I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited, not because I am such a great mom, but for me.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Like oceans, we ebb and flow and are in constant motion. We have a deep desire to keep things as they are, and a contradictory desire to expand beyond our current limits. Times of relative equilibrium allow us to build the strength we need for times of movement. It can be difficult for us to know which stage we are in and whether we are moving forward at all. But underneath our seemingly individual current, we are ultimately being pulled forward toward a connection with the greater whole.

The more I thought about it, the more it became clear to me that religion and feminism are different expressions of the same impulse toward making life more just and whole.

Women need time and space to play - particularly when we work so hard

I want to warn twentysomething women that the old bargain has not changed all that much. You can only have it all if you do it all.

The kind of madness I had was different. It was quiet, and very, very dangerous. It was a madness designed to keep me sane.

So many of our stories about nature are about testing ourselves against it, setting ourselves against it, defining our humanity against it.

Hands are for other human hands to hold. They should not be reserved exclusively as perches for hawks. And the wild is not a panacea for the human soul; too much in the air can corrode it to nothing.

concentrating on the sodden lake of the heart, and its sharp depths / ... I am balanced on one foot, assuming the next step is groundward ('Walking')

Their existence gives the lie to the thought that the wild is always something untouched by human hearts and hands. The wild can be human work.

The American writer and ecologist Aldo Leopold once wrote that falconry was a balancing act between wild and tame–not just in the hawk, but inside the heart and mind of the falconer. That is why he considered it the perfect hobby. I am starting to see the balance is righting, now, and the distance between Mabel and me increasing. I see, too, that her world and my world are not the same, and some part of me is amazed that I ever thought they were.