Quotes About Balance

The hunger inside us must be fed to be controlled.

What use was money if you didn't have the time to enjoy it?

This world was made to be cloaked in gray. It wouldn't feel natural if the sun shone brightly all the time.

I've spent enough time on the dead. Time to return to the business of the living and those caught in-between.

What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.

Emotions are useless during business hours...

How sour sweet music is When time is broke and no proportion kept!

My wife reports these problems to me, because we are a modern enlightened couple who have divided up our household responsibilities equally along non-gender-stereotypical lines: My wife's responsibilities: Cleanliness, food, décor, clothing, medical care, houseguests, parties, holidays, relatives and all other activities involving human interaction, such as talking. My responsibilities: Things that break, lizards.

Nevertheless, we do need insects, for they perform many useful functions. Without insects, for example, we would have no reliable way to spread certain diseases.

I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.

We are not meant to know everything, Mae. Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately calibrated between the known and the unknown? That our souls need the mysteries of night and the clarity of day? Young people are creating ever-present daylight, and I think it will burn us all alive. There will be no time to reflect, to sleep to cool.

Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.

Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.

We are not meant to know everything, Mae. Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately calibrated between the known and the unknown? That our souls need the mysteries of night and the clarity of day?

No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death.

The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard. It shifts and our cities fall; it sighs and the coasts are overtaken.

The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard.

The work of man is done behind the back of the natural world. When nature notices, and can muster the energy, it wipes the slate clean again.

I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.

We live in a vengeful time. You didn't get the orange chicken you ordered or the sticky rice? And now you're already home? Meaning you'd have to drive all the way back to get the orange chicken and sticky rice you ordered? Injustice! And thus avenge. Avenge the proprietor's crimes! This [is] our contemporary version of balance, of speaking truth to power. Avenge the proprietor on thy customer-review site! Right the imbalance!

Well now you're contradicting yourself. With balance there cannot be chaos. With randomness there can be no punishment. You're pleading for punishment in hopes that you'll see your God. Without punishment there is no God. If there is balance then there is your Lord. If balance then afterlife.

Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately calibrated between the known and the unknown? That our souls need the mysteries of night and the clarity of day?

We gravitate toward comfort, Josie thought, but it must be rationed. Give us one-third comfort and two-thirds chaos—that is balance.

A circle is the strongest shape in the universe. Nothing can beat it, nothing can improve upon it, nothing can be more perfect.