Quotes About Balance

Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time.

The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn't love it but because it is not afraid of it.

When you fulfill your needs, you generate the energy to meet your child's needs.

If you are a serious and analytical parent, it is easy to go right past what went well to what you want to be better. Remind yourself to pat yourself on the back for your accomplishments and celebrate each success, no matter how small it might be. Don't let one problem rob you of the joy of the good moments.

Those with the deepest lows also have the loftiest highs.

I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.

Anyway, everybody gets something, and nobody gets everything, and that's the way it is.

This is of great importance, to watch carefully, - now I am so weak - not to over fatigue myself, because then I cannot contribute to the pleasure of others; and a placid face and a gentle tone will make my family more happy than anything else I can do for them. Our own will gets sadly into the performances of our duties sometimes (Elizabeth T. King).

Nature's music is never over her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

We did have some difficult times. Really, there were more good times than bad. I've been honest about a lot of the things that happened and the truth is, I have more good memories than bad ones.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Virtue can only flourish amongst equals.

I am in the zone, the perfect balance between manic and drunk, I am mellow, I'm cool, cool as cats. I've found the answer, the thing that takes the edge off, smoothes out the madness, sends me sailing, lifts me up and lets me fly.

Why must the power of the female body cancel the power of the female mind? Are we so afraid of having both?

warned me that the tenuous balance that exists in my brain is easily set off kilter, but like everything else he said

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

We humans need purpose in our lives. Look for happiness and it's hard to find. Find purpose and happiness is usually it's side kick, humming alongside.

My intuitive, feeling mind and my logical mind work in concert.

Just seems more complicated than other people. This complex human being may be at once "more naive and more knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and rigorous logic. He or she is both more primitive and more cultured, more destructive and more constructive, occasionally crazier, and yet adamantly saner than the average person.