Quotes About Balance

She did not divide conduct into parts. She was attempting always a wholeness. When there is wholeness there are no causes. Only there is living. The contribution of the whole of one's life, the whole of one's resources, to the world at large. This, like the courage to leap

It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.

The happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance is not the works of Shakespeare (as Buck Mulligan says) but the Holy Bible.

Here's the secret," he said. "I don't want more than I have—therefore I have everything. It's the economy of enough.

Prayer at once embraces our world and yet constantly measures and weighs it.

I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

Finding one important thing in your life doesn't mean you have to give up all the other important things.

We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.

The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

The night is just a part of the day

It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.

How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us?

The day is made up of 24 hours and an infinite number of moments. We need to be aware of those moments and make the most of them regardless of whether we're busy doing something or contemplating life.

We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us.

I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies

Although I have the colors, only the Lord can mix them with such harmony.

In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.

Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what were doing;but it become a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of our life.

Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them

If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.

Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.

JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.