Quotes About Balance

You know that the antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest? … The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.

Book of Revelation frequently described objects in groups of seven to symbolize the seven "chakras" or energy systems in the body.

A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.

Humanity enveloped in entropy desperately seeking symmetry for peace of mind

Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.

Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.

Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed.

I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.

You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse either.

Much of her life had been lived like a balancing act on a spearpoint fence, and on a particularly difficult night when she was twelve, she had decided that instinct was, in fact, the quiet voice of God. Prayers did receive replies, but you had to listen closely and believe in the answer. At twelve, she wrote in her diary: God doesn't shout; He whispers, and in the whisper is the way.

The world has too few modest fry cooks and far too many self-important professors.

A swelled head is just a result of nature's frenzied efforts to fill a vacuum.

She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy, that her writing would suffer from too much happiness, that she needed a balanced life with down days and miseries to keep the sharp edge on her work. But the idea that an artist needed to suffer to do her best work was a conceit of the young and inexperienced. The happier she grew, the better she wrote.

Maybe if everything was beautiful, nothing would be. People saw one thing, they swooned over it. They saw this other thing, they pounded it with sticks. Maybe there had to be variety for life to work. Swoon over everything, you get bored. Beat everything with a stick-boring.

If patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives — and they do — then the law of harmony insists that the most harmonious of all patterns, circles within circles, will most often assert itself.

The feeling, a paradoxical mix of pulsing energy and profound peace

La obsesión de colocarnos en el centro de todo es la ruina tanto de los teólogos como de los zoólogos.

Without your sheep, you would have no livelihood, you would die. This dependency creates a sort of equality, doesn't it? Not individually, but collectively. As a group, you and your sheep are at opposite sides of a seesaw, and somewhere in between there is a fulcrum. You must maintain the balance. In that sense, we are no better than they.

Be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.

Grant me immoderation, the only way to save what we can of what we're given. The hell with equity.

It's not such a bad thing to maintain the rhythms of the universe.

Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of thunder.

Even when natural weather is good, human weather is bad.