Quotes About Balance

Always we desire too much or not enough and we compensate accordingly.

Rien n'est tout noir, ni tout blanc, c'est le gris qui gangne. Les hommes et leurs âmes, c'est pareil... T'es une âme grise, joliment grise, comme nous tous...

You must not fall. / When you lose your balance, resist for a long time before turning yourself toward the earth. Then jump. / You must not force yourself to stay steady. You must move forward.

The essential thing is to etch movements in the sky, movements so still they leave no trace. The essential thing is simplicity. / That is why the long path to perfection is horizontal.

When I see three oranges, I juggle; when I see two towers, I walk!

Wirewalker, trust your feet! Let them lead you; they know the way.

It cannot be done all at once. To overpower vertigo - the keeper of the abyss- one must tame it, cautiously.

La corsa non è il modo per andare rapidamente da un'estremità all'altra del filo. La corsa, ah, ah! é il riso del funambolo

Finché il vento dei nostri pensieri, più violento di quello dell'equilibrio, tornerà presto a far volteggiare verso le nubi questa piuma così sensibile.

My best office is my bed.

Life's managed, not cured.

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

Anyone who does not acknowledge the darkness in his nature will succumb to it...the lamp of conviction needs to be shaded by doubt, or it burns with a blinding light.

But a democratic government cannot afford to be as crude as that. It never goes in for summary repression or direct control; it nullifies rather than conceals undesirable news; it controls emphasis rather than facts; it balances bad news with good; it lies directly only when it is certain that the lie will not be found out during the course of the war. This was the method

Give no decision till both sides thou'st heard.

This emphasis on the philosophy, or worldview, of aikido often makes understanding the art difficult for the beginning student. On one level, the student of aikido must adopt a worldview that accepts violence and attacks. On the other hand, aikido does not meet like with like—aikido does not retaliate with more violence and attacks. It

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

feminist therapist believes that a woman needs to be told that she's not crazy; that it's normal to feel sad or angry about being overworked, underpaid, underloved; that it's healthy to harbor fantasies of running away when the needs of others (aging parents, needy husbands, demanding children) threaten to overwhelm her.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Health - what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.

Housework won't kill you, but then again, why take the chance?

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance.