Quotes About Balance

The movement of this Work is psychologically inwards, at first. Later it is both inwards and outwards.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

En el silencio mandan los ruidos.

Zigzag... don't bunch up. Weave like a drunk on New Year's... Got it?

I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two... But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

Only the insane take themselves seriously.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

She was one of those who are born to make chaos cosmic.

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

It had been very well done, Ronicky decided, Blondy had acquitted himself with just the right edge to his voice. He had not been sickeningly acquiescent. Neither had he been stupidly defiant. But

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.

The grasshoppers are all right.

Nature never undertakes any change unless her interests are served by an increase in entropy.

Impulsive enjoyment of life, which leads away both from work in a calling and from religion, was as such the enemy of rational asceticism, whether in the form of seigneurial sports, or the enjoyment of the dance-hall or the public—house of the common man. 

You can't eat straight A's.

Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle," I told him. "A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it is going forward towards something. You have a good bicycle. Your trouble is you are trying to maintain your balance sitting still, with no place to go. It's no wonder you feel shaky.

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it is going forward towards something. You have a good bicycle. Your trouble is you are trying to maintain your balance sitting still, with no place to go.

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything — except itself.

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.