Quotes About Balance

there are few if any issues where all the truth and all the right and all the angels are on one side.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

All substances are poisons; there is none which is not.

It is compromise that prevents each set of reformers from crushing the group at the other end of the political spectrum.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.

So much depends on my actions, so I am seeing fewer people, simplifying my life, organizing it so that I am not always on the edge of irritability.

Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.

Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?

A thousand violins cloy very rapidly without percussion.

I could offer no consolation and I do not think he wanted any. There are situations in which consolation only threatens the equilibrium that time has instituted.

She would give herself violently, then yawn at the wrongest moment. She would spend all one day cleaning up the flat, cooking, ironing. Then, pass the next three or four Boheminanly on the floor in front of the fire, reading Lear, women's magazines, a detective story, Hemingway. Not all at the same time, but bits of all in the same afternoon. She liked doing things, and only then finding a reason for doing them.

No es el poco saber lo que genera necesariamente la ignorancia: saber demasiado, o querer saber demasiado, puede producir el mismo resultado.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy and clear. Likewise in a relationship, men and women have their own rhythms and cycles.

Too much intimacy, too quickly, can cause women to become needy and men to pull away. Just as men have a tendency to rush into physical intimacy, women make the mistake of rushing into complete emotional intimacy.

When confronted with a problem, a man wants to solve it while a woman often wants to talk about it first. For women, talking and then feeling heard and understood stimulates oxytocin, which allows her estrogen levels to rise and her stress to decrease. Through expressing her feelings, she is able to return to her female side, which balances her hormones and lowers her stress levels. In this way she is better able to cope with life's inevitable external stresses.

A woman mistakenly thinks that to be worthy of receiving what she really wants, she must keep giving back what she is receiving.

If women become too much like men, men lose purpose, meaning, and inspiration in life.

I learned it is not enough just to be happy with what we have; we must honor our material desires as well.

With increasing stresses at work and with higher expectations of lasting romance at home, relationships today are challenging for almost everyone.

To keep the score even in a relationship, a man really doesn't require anything but love. Women

To find our loving feelings, many times we need first to feel all our negative feelings.

Money Doesn't Fulfill Emotional Needs Martians tend to think money is the solution to all problems.

He prayed long and hard for justice and healing, but was a bit light on mercy.