Quotes About Balance

El hombre es la medicina que da vida a la mujer! Todas las mujeres tienen que consumirla.

To live is to build a ship and a harbor at the same time. And to complete the harbor long after the ship was drowned.

A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos.

We may proclaim that stress kills, but in reality it is not stress that kills; it is our reaction to it. Sometimes we react to the Light by finding various ways of shutting it out. But when we shut off the Light, we are in fact killing ourselves - so the idea is not to turn stress away, but to let it in.

Lo similar se atrae, los opuestos se repelen.

You can be very wild and still be very wise.

You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means.

Function must dictate form.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both. —L. P. Jacks

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation.

Once you lose the discipline of functionality as a design guidepost, the imagination runs amok.

For a dark stream bottom, use a dark fly; for a light stream bottom, use a light fly.

Anyone who thinks you can have infinite growth on a finite planet is either a madman or an economist. —Kenneth Boulding

Between propriety and joy choose joy.

I often wondered: is it some kind of a trade-off? Do others have to lose so we can win?  Ã¢â'¬Â¢

Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.

I want to stay still and to keep moving. I want this life and another.

Life is complex, conceptually dominated by binaries but never wholly contained by them.

when all the time it was that grand tree, taking up half the garden with its roots and not allowing anything else to grow.

Without the balancing setting of everyday life all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.

as if we were both trying to get on a see-saw at the same time—neither of us pressed too hard and a delicate equilibrium was allowed to persist.

I often wondered: is it some kind of a trade-off? Do others have to lose so we can win?

The fact is if we followed the history of every little country in this world-in its dramatic as well as its quiet times- we would have no space left in which to live our own lives or to apply ourselves to our necessary tasks, never mind indulge in occasional pleasures, like swimming. Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?

The fundamental skill of all mothers—the management of time—was beyond her.