Quotes About Balance

It's a study in deliberate asymmetry.

There is the world that should be," he growled, "and the world that is. We live in one." "And must create the other," Ebenezar retorted, "if it is ever to be.

myself under control.

It's tough for magic to argue with physics, most of the time.

What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around." He paused for a moment, frowning faintly, pursing his lips. "And sometimes you are what's coming around.

The path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom," he said, and turned for the door.

Sometimes you get what's coming around. And sometimes, you are what's coming around.

Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.

it left me suspended uncomfortably, stretched out between the overwhelming opposing forces, just trying to hang on. Story of my freaking life.

Thank me when I save your life." "You've done that already," I said. "Back in the museum." "So we're even?" "Once you've made that swap, you don't keep counting, man," I said. "Drive safe.

if you want to achieve consistent performance, you need both parts of a 20 Mile March: a lower bound and an upper bound, a hurdle that you jump over and a ceiling that you will not rise above, the ambition to achieve and the self-control to hold back.  

O melhor sinal da riqueza não é manter uma agenda lotada, mas ter tempo disponível para se concentrar no que é importante.

The difficult task is to marry relentless discipline with creativity, neither letting discipline inhibit creativity nor letting creativity erode discipline.

Life is a food chain, and it's better to be the diner than the dinner.

had been taught long ago never to whimper or moan or to blame someone else for his troubles. Life is tough, so accept the consequences. With the good also comes the bad, and vice versa.

The risk of relying too much on trying to control children from the outside in, is that this often causes rebellion from the inside out.

You are in the world, but not to be tied to the world.

Only when your inner life is right will your outer life be right as well.

The idea is to eat well and not die from it - for the simple reason that that would be the end of my eating.

The head's a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don't travel at all.

It didn't work to try to write about sex, doom, death, time, and the cosmos when you were thinking about a massive plate of spaghetti and meatballs.

I admired the way she was staying a single step in front of her madness in the way that so many of us do by merely watching the clock where each tick brings us safely over the lip of the future, our madness a split second behind us.

If you dive down deep enough there are no words to bring you up. Not my problem. If you fly too high there are no words to help you land. I went back to my land of bears and learned to bob like an apple on the river's surface.

One megachurch pastor told me, "I only have our people for two hours per week, if I am lucky, and Fox News has them 24/7.