Quotes About Balance

There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for me, being with people or even with one beloved person for any length of time without solitude is even worse. I lose my center. I feel dispersed, scattered, in pieces. I must have time alone in which to mull over my encounter, and to extract its juice, its essence, to understand what has really happened to me as a consequence of it.

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

It is harder for women, perhaps to be 'one-pointed,' much harder for them to clear space around whatever it is they want to do beyond household chores and family life. Their lives are fragmented... the cry not so much for a 'a room of one's own' as time of one's own. Conflict become acute, whatever it may be about, when there is no margin left on any day in which to try at least to resolve it.

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

An English gentleman is someone who knows exactly when to stop being one.

The problem with longstanding friends -- they felt utterly free to go too far and to enjoy every step they took over the line.

Passion ought to be tempered with restraint.

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

All the bad moments were converging, everything at once, like we couldn't hold them off anymore, as though there weren't enough good memories to keep the bad ones from winning.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

Suze mi teku od smeha, ako prestanem da se smejem osta?e samo suze.

Suze mi teku od smijeha. Ako prestanem da se smijem, osta?e samo suze.

Najve?a mudrost u životu je da ?ovjek prona?e pravu ludost.

Prihvatio sam nauk koji mi je dao, da covek dobija, kad daje.

Više je dobrih ljudi na svijetu nego zlih. Mnogo više! Samo se zli dalje ?uju i teže osje?aju. Dobri ?ute.

Ljudi nisu glupi da ne bi vidjeli kako je teško pomiriti svijet i sebe, ni dovoljno pametni da to ne pokušavaju...

Ne može se živjeti samo od pucanja i strahovanja, ?ovjek mora i da do?e sebi, da se provjetri, da se provede, da se izbjesni; vidio si kako u lokomotivi puštaju paru da ne eksplodira, e tako ti je i kod ?ovjeka.

Ima stvari koje se moraju u?initi, ali je još više stvari sa kojima se moramo pomiriti.

Vise je stete naneseno zivotu zbog sprecavanja grijeha, nego zbog grijeha.

Young people think love is mathematics. They think if you add it up and add it up and keep adding, you can save it until you're ready to cash it in. But it doesn't work that way. You might be making the deposits, but your whole life cashes the checks. Work, children, bills—it all takes its cut. Then you go back to love, thinking it'll be there, and sometimes it's not.