Quotes About Balance

The best relationships are win-win. Why don't more people go into relationships with that attitude?

Only an acceptance of both the flowers and the thorns can bring you peace. Peace, after all, is the fruit of total acceptance.

I feel that we should not only maintain gentle, peaceful relations with our fellow human beings bur also that is very important to extend the same kind of attitude toward the natural environment.

A man is a business failure if he lets his family life interfere with his business record

I don't want to have to give up me, in order to be his.

They're all special, but no one gets special treatment. It wouldn't be fair to the others.

excuse never to get attached to anyone or tied down, except to my work. It would be a constant tug-of-war to be a married butler, or one with children. I know some people do it now, and live out

It struck both of them that it took so little to either destroy a life or rebuild it. There was only a hair's difference between the two.

You're always doing too much or too little for them, not there when they want you to be, or too present and driving them insane. You have to let them

No se puede pretender que un hombre, o una mujer, esté en actividad permanente. A veces hay que darle un descanso para que pueda entregarse a sus penas.

Kezia had the satiny delicacy of her mother and the sheer strength of her father.

life as a young entrepreneur, Ben had no time to come home. After he sold the business and started a second one, he was even busier. He had a knack for discovering a need that no one else had thought of, and capitalizing on it. Married now, at thirty-five, with three children of his own, Willie, Charlie, and Olive, six, five, and three, he rarely came to New York, and stayed at a hotel when he did.

his schedule and the fact that he was

It sucks enough when girlfriends break plans with each other for a boy, but at least that's not against the natural order of things, like when a boy blows off his girlfriend for friends. . . . Or maybe I've had it wrong all along. Since friendships usually outlast relationships, why shouldn't friends receive preferential treatment? Because you don't sleep with your friends!

It goes back to keeping things equal. Friendship feels really demeaning if one person still likes the other more, which is probably what caused the breakup in the first place. It's such a misnomer that 'boyfriend' and 'girlfriend' have the word 'friend' in them. I don't know, Dom. It's screwed up that people who dug each other enough to go out can't at least stay friends afterward. Spoken by a true love virgin.

So it's all right for him to rule out a serious relationship, but it's wrong if I'm not ready to settle for less?

Cuteness and kindness are often inversely proportional in people.

The only way of achieving durable liberty is to . . . forge the balance necessary for building a Shackled Leviathan. True liberty can flourish neither without a state nor under the yoke of a Despotic Leviathan. But there is no universal way of building a Shackled Leviathan . . . Every country's prospects are molded by its unique history, the types of coalitions and compromises that are possible, and the exact balance of power between state and society.

For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.

Madison sostuvo que las Constituciones debían diseñarse de modo que «debe hacerse que la ambición contrarreste a la ambición».

The Black Death is a vivid example of a critical juncture, a major event or confluence of factors disrupting the existing economic or political balance in society.

During critical junctures, a major event or confluence of factors disrupts the existing balance of political or economic power in a nation.

Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116

People need devils and dark gods, if only to give them a foe to rally against, an obstacle to overcome. Your people understood that there can be no light without darkness, no good without evil, no triumph without setbacks. You can't kill me because I'm part of all that you are, all you've done and plan to do. You don't have to like me. You can even loathe me. But you must accept me.