Quotes About Balance

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise.

Being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred him to remove your brain or your heart.

When you're so undecided, it's better not to do anything, the right course of action is to take no action at all

The only place where housework comes before needlework is in the dictionary.

You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist.

You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex—that's quite a thought, isn't it?

I felt caught in a dilemma that was new to me then but which since has become horribly familiar: the trap of adult life, in which you are held, wriggling, powerless to act because you can see both sides. On that occasion, as generally in the future, I compromised.

What do you most wish for, Izzy?" "Herbs and salads, and fish straight from the river. A man needs no more than such pleasures.

Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack Diamonds and fireflies If they couldn't lean against Black. . . .

The world where the owl is endlessly hungry and endlessly on the hunt is the world in which I live too.

I simply do not distinguish between work and play.

I'm healthy now. I probably wouldn't say I'm at my best fitness level and I haven't played that much lately, but I'm healthy and that's all that matters.

Trying to force a system to work beyond its capacity invariably causes turbulence and slows things down.

Men are better watching the seasons, and putting good into the earth, than running together in cities, where they listen all day to each other's noises and forgot the gods. Acharnai is quite far enough.

Apollo, who understands all mysteries, says also, "Nothing too much." He is knowledge, Theseus; but She is what he knows.

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One exercises to be a whole man, not a creature bred like a plough-ox to do one thing.

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

He looked as if he were anxiously balancing a large handful of tact, without quite knowing where to put it down.

Hormones are nature's three bottles of beer.

Someone reading a book is a sign of order in the world.

Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot. The next day, walking among the wreckage, I found the friable nests of birds, completely intact and unharmed on the ground. That the featherweight survive the massive, that this reversal of fortune takes place among us — that is what haunts me. I don't know what it means.

If your teachers suggest that your poems are sentimental, that is only half of it. Your poems probably need to be even more sentimental. Don't be less of a flower, but could you be more of a stone at the same time?