Quotes About Balance

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

Even the most ardent environmentalist doesn't really want to stop pollution. If he thinks about it, and doesn't just talk about it, he wants to have the right amount of pollution. We can't really afford to eliminate it - not without abandoning all the benefits of technology that we not only enjoy but on which we depend.

You learn more and more that everything exists at once with its opposite, so the contradictions of life are never-ending and somehow the mediation between these opposites is the game of life.

See how you feel, and always give in gracefully if that particular day is not your day to fast.

Life makes you pay...everybody pays something

If you do well at anything, you gotta pay up to all the people who did worse. On the other hand, if you do badly, life makes you pay a shit tax, too. Everybody pays something.

I didn't completely forget how to be nice or feminine because I have a career.

Don't be closer to twice a friend's weight than to her actual weight," I told myself. This little mantra has helped me stave off obesity for more than two decades.

Mom was impressed but didn't want me to go overboard, which was impossible, because I was still eating a lot. I just had taken a break from eating like a professional football player.

I cannot imagine a life more boring and a more time-consuming obsession than being preoccupied with watching what I eat. I

In my thirties, I gained a sense of calm that came from professional stability and, although this is not backed by science, a general slowing of my metabolism, which is why I can gain seven pounds from eating one heavy dinner.

Neither of us gets to be the princess all the time.

can that be? You're not in good shape. And that is true! But this is the paradox of my life. I love running because it puts me in an instant good mood, and I think I read on the back of a box of Cheerios that it's good for my heart. But I also love alcohol, fast-food hamburgers, and eating gluten. So it's a perilous teeter-totter that I am trying to get away with until my doctors tell me I'm in trouble.

And more importantly, I never have any resentment over uneven distribution of childcare. I just know it's always going to be me. Which is exhausting and terrifying. But also empowering.

Dream about future :) live your present :) but don't forgot to learn from your part:)

And we are not mountaintop sages who can live by consuming mist.

A star geiko is never, ever alone and I always wanted to be by myself.

I happen to think the relationship between the police and society is drifting out of balance. The police have forgotten that they are there only by invitation, while society has forgotten that because it chooses the laws which regulate it, it has a responsibility to uphold them. The relationship should be mutually supportive.

To be a Taoist, one need not engage in fanatical denial of any part of life, nor does one need to leave family and career in order to gain a foothold on the path. One need only balance the various parts of one's personality and provide them with a strong focus.

Those who attain the middle Dominate the whole.

One side of a ridge is cold and foggy, The other is hot and dry. Just by choosing where you stand, You alter your destiny.

The follower of Tao is always flexible and adaptable to circumstance.

Whether our lives are magnificent or wretched depends upon our ordering of daily details. We must organize the details into a composition that pleases