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Quotes About Balance

Pharmakon means drug, but as Jacques Derrida and others have pointed out, the word in Greek famously refuses to designate whether poison or cure. It holds both in the bowl.
~ Maggie Nelson
185. Perhaps this is why writing all day, even when the work feels arduous, never feels to me like "a hard day's work." Often it feels more like balancing two sides of an equation - occasionally quite satisfying, but essentially a hard and passing rain. It, too, kills the time.
~ Maggie Nelson
Her feet moved over the earth with confidence and grace.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
The previous day and the day yet to come hang in a balance, each waiting for the other to make a move.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Karn?m burnumdayken gittiÄŸim partide bir kad?n doÄŸum uzman?yla tan??m??t?m. Hafiften aÄŸz? kayarak, bir s?r verir gibi "Bu doÄŸum iÅŸlerinde ya her ÅŸey yolunda gider ya da her ÅŸey batar" deyip kadehiyle karn?m? göstermiÅŸti. "Aras? yoktur".
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Toda vida tiene un núcleo, un eje, un epicentro del que todo sale y al que todo vuelve.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
The witching hour," Daniel always called this time of day. He used to go out in it, every evening, and have a last cigarette as he walked the perimeter of the garden. He liked the moment, he said, when it was neither day nor night, but indefinably both.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
You should slow down. Learn to enjoy the journey. You never really get where you're going, anyway.
~ Maggie Shayne
Keeping a professional distance had never been what Vince O'Mally did best. Hell, it was the one thing he wished he could do
~ Maggie Shayne
Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a complete picture.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
A good man?s intellect is piercing, yet inflicts no wound; his actions are deliberate, yet bold; his heart is warm, but never burns; his speech is eloquent, yet ever true.
~ Magha
My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.
~ Magic Johnson
Ayurveda will be known as the most supremely evolved system of perfect health - from both points of view. prevention and cure.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony
~ Mahatma Gandhi
There can be no reconciliation without a reorganization of power.
~ Unknown
For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.
~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Descending to the earth, that strange intoxicating beauty of the unseen world, lurks in the elements of Nature. And the soul of man, who has attained the rightful balance, becoming aware of this hidden joy, straight away is enamoured and bewitched. And from this mystic marriage are born the poets' songs, inner knowledge, the language of the heart, virtuous living, and the fair child beauty. And the Great Soul gives to man as dowry, the hidden glory of the world.
~ Mahmud Shabistari
Whenever we tamper with natural laws, there are consequences," the count said. "The larger the disruption, the larger the consequence.
~ Maile Meloy
I baptize you in the name of the conservation of energy. What comes around goes around.
~ Maile Meloy
In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary
~ Maimonides
The USA and the Soviet Union each had the ability to annihilate the other. Therefore- in theory at least-neither of these growling superpowers would dare attack the other, because to do so would result in its own immolation.
~ Mal Peet