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Quotes About Balance

To make one, there must be two.
~ W.H. Auden
Healing is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.
~ W.H. Auden
Nothing can be loved too much, but all things can be loved in the wrong way.
~ W.H. Auden
Thou shalt not live within thy means Nor on plain water and raw greens. If thou must choose Between the chances, choose the odd; Read The New Yorker, trust in God; And take short views.
~ W.H. Auden
The songs celebrates the order of the nature. When the scene is nice, the emotion are nasty, when the scene is nasty, the emotion are nice.
~ W.H. Auden
It is best for a man to try to be both poet and naturalist — not to be too much of a naturalist and so overlook the beauty of things, or too much of a poet and so fail to understand them or even perceive those hidden beauties only revealed by close observation.
~ Unknown
Aunque sea una gran hazaña añadir algo, aunque sólo sea una pizca, a la suma del conocimiento humano, más grande todavía es añadir un pensamiento. Para un hombre, es mejor intentar ser a la vez poeta y naturalista que ser demasiado naturalista y pasar por alto la belleza de las cosas, o demasiado poeta y no entenderlas o no poder ver siquiera las bellezas escondidas que sólo se revelan tras una observación atenta.
~ Unknown
Summer" Be of this brightness dyed Whose unrecking fever Flings gold before it goes Into voids finally That have no measure. Bird-sleep moonset, Island after island, Be of their hush On this tide that balance A time, for a time. Islands are not forever, Nor this light again, Tide-set, brief summer, Be of their secret That fears no other.
~ W.S. Merwin
I do not think I am fond, Father, Of the way in which always before he listens He prepares himself by listening. It is Unequal, Father, like the reason For which the wheel turns, though there is no wheel.
~ W.S. Merwin
Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.
~ Howard Fast
If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.
~ Mary Schmich
I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to
~ Sarah McLachlan
If I didn't believe that we had a chance of coming to power, then I would have focused on taking care of my three children or gardening.
~ Marine Le Pen
One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.
~ Wallace Stegner
Without the light, no chance; without the dark, no dance.
~ Margaret Atwood
Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion.
~ Samuel R. Delany
I really get a chance to be a normal kid.
~ Kiernan Shipka
A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
I don't want to completely self-sabotage everything that I've got and alienate everyone. But I definitely want to take some chances as I always have.
~ Katy Perry
Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.
~ Wallace Stegner
If you take all your meals seriously, none of them gets a chance to matter.
~ Robert Farrar Capon
I like sleeping at the minute, I don't really get the chance to do that.
~ Ryan Jarman
Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
~ Oscar Wilde