Quotes About Balance

I wanted a family, but before I had a family, I was a career person. I've tried to marry those two things, and sometimes it is successful, and sometimes it is not.

Martial arts, when I do martial arts, it's more of a life type of training.

I'm a simple martial arts guy.

He took a bite of scone, observing that it had achieved that delicate balance between crumbliness and half-set mortar that is the ideal of every scone, and felt some stirrings of appetite return.

Money isn't enough. Happiness takes more than a padded bank account.

Funny how life pays you back for hurting other people. You may get what you want, but then you have to live with it. Some choices carry their own punishment.

For Lewis, praise is not only a natural part of life, but also one of the most important traits of a healthy mind. He observes, "The humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, minds praised most, while the cranks, misfits and malcontents praised least." He sums it up this way: "Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible.

Sophie and Howl were living - somewhat quarrelsomely it must be confessed, although they were said to be happiest that way - in the moving castle again

It's silly to let the bad things come out on top! The good, happy things are just as important. They just don't seem to last. You want to catch them at their best and keep them if you can.

The job Chrestomanci has is to make sure this world isn't run entirely by witches. Ordinary people have rights too.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.

Myself, I've always been organized in waves. For months on end, slowly descending into disorder, I drift with the status quo. Then I wake up one morning with a sudden compulsion to color-code my socks or stack them vertically.

How do you retain a spirit of affection and humor in a crazed, homicidal, unpredictable society?

We ask the poet to reassure us by giving us a geometry of living, in which all things add up and cohere, to tell us how things buttress once another, circle round and intermelt.

A perfect balance is possible to imagine, but impossible to reach, so one is always trembling along an arc from too excited to too bored and back again. Everything we love most—be it sweetheart or flower—looks majestic because it seems to be trembling out of balance. While

Today, instead of adapting to the natural world in which we live, we've created a human environment in which we've embedded the natural world.

I used to have a theory about photographing. It was a sense of getting in between two actions, or in between acton and repose.

She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface

justice comes in many forms.

when it comes to making a decision, look at both sides, listen to your heart, then pick one and dive in.

Doctors couldn't be everywhere, so the Lord invented Vulcans. I thought you knew.

Beware! said the peridxis's voice in her head. Don't let It's shadowy little truth overwhelm the greater one.

It is time to venture out of the comforting land of either/or opposites and travel into the uncertain territory of both/and.

People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.