Quotes About Balance

Even the most white-manized Sioux is still half horse.

Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

Control is the inner disease of those who need stability and order to function.

I wished that love could be simple, that it was always given and returned in the same measure, equally and at the same time, that all the planets aligned in a perfect way to dispel all doubts, that it was easy to understand and never painful.

I was becoming stronger in some ways but weaker in others.

It is good to have many strengths, Natiya...Do not sacrifice one kind of strength for another

I didn't have the luxury of living only in a single moment. I had to live in a hundred fractured moments that held our futures in the balance.

And as high as the trees stretched, the roots reached to the foundations of the earth.

Do not sacrifice one kind of strength for another.

rain is both a friend and foe, depending on when it comes.

Nezahazuj jeden druh síly pro jiný.

Who has not been, or is not to be mad in some lonely hour of life? Who is quite safe from the trembling of the balance?

Justice to the dead first," he said; "mercy to the living afterward.

To Michael Soule's three C's-cores, carnivores, and corridors-Foreman added "three W's: wilderness, wildways, and my favorite word in the English language, wildeor, which is Middle English and means `self-willed animal.' The ancient people who saw animals as self-willed and the land as self-willed had respect for the earth.

I like the physical part, but I'm also drawn to the spiritual. For me, yoga is not just a workout—it's about working on yourself.

you can't keep eating pancakes with chocolate and powdered sugar on them for the rest of your life. Thirty years from now, you'll understand why your mom's eating fish, and I'm pretending to enjoy this turkey bacon that tastes like paper.

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

The only power she wanted over him was the power to make him happy. . . . She wanted them to be equal in their loving, not master and slave.

Though working in the kitchen is soothing, I'm glad I don't have to cook all the time. Then it would be work.

As Paracelsus said, 'Dose alone makes a poison.'" The

A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick is for the blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild...

There's a space at the bottom of an exhale, a little hitch between taking in and letting out that's a perfect zero you can go into. There's a rest point between the heart muscle's close and open - an instant of keenest living when you're momentarily dead. You can rest there.