Quotes About Balance

They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.

You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

Anyway, my father became super-responsible. You know, he was the kind of person that absorbs all responsibility in the family, and then everybody else can act like a child in relation to him.

Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.

Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.

My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read.

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.

Fear and impatience demagnetize. Poise magnetizes.

Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.

Work honestly, meditate everyday, meet people without fear and play.

Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.

It's okay to put your heart on your sleeve. Okay to have that softer side - the softer side in the sense of being able to listen, to deal with fear, to not always be so dominant.

Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.

Today, I'm a conservationist because I believe that my species doesn't have the right or option to determine the fate of other species, even ones that inspire fear in us.

Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

Gratitude and fear can't stand the sight of each other.

Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain; it is not mean to be cultivated and abused.

We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.

I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.

People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.