Quotes About Balance

A dream is both Life and Death in that it takes from one and gives to the other.

Dream big, then hedge.

Going insane is the mind's way of coping with insanity.

Health is a person's true clock; their only way to keep track of the time they have.

Mathemusic is the currency of the Universe.

Power is acquired, not distributed. Equity is what gets distributed.

The natural order of things is artificial.

Like it doesn't cater to the rich and abandon the poor

I watch how the moon sits in the sky in the dark night, shining with the light from the sun, and the sun doesn't give light to the moon assuming, the moon's gonna owe it one

I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily see a band. But I also like the wild places, especially hiking in the desert and the Eastern woodlands. Do I have to choose?

Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.

Life's like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

Compromise is necessary ... so long as you never give up who you are. That isn't compromise; that's spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself.

The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is applied, what details aren't necessary.

Whatever your bottle of liquor is, nothing is worth picking it up, and losing your self.

One cannot get to animal rights by trampling on human rights.

Optimists were optimistic, pessimists pessimistic, and the in-betweens listened to the optimists one day and to the pessimists the next.

trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one.

I suspect that children want their parents to be busy; they don't want to have to fill your schedule with their paltry needs. Children want to be assured that there are other things to do, important things; more important, on occasion, than they are.

I mean when I was a kid, parents called the shots. Now I'm a parent, kids call the shots. So we get fucked coming and going. I can't believe this.

Other people savor the symmetry of opposites.

At only ten a.m., Edgar found himself already eyeing the Doritos on the counter. One thing he hadn't anticipated about the 'home office' was Snack Syndrome; lately his mental energies divided evenly between his new calling (worrying about money, which substituted neatly for earning it) and not stuffing his face.

Take care of the components, ad the sum of their parts unfolds as if by magic.

Perhaps I overemphasized the value of keeping busy.... I liked to imagine that I was incapable of doing nothing for afternoons myself, but maybe what disturbed me was that I was capable of it. I feared this was a knack one could get the hang of rather readily, and it was therefore now lurking in my house waiting for me to pick it up like a winter flu.