Quotes About Balance

The head and the heart, you know, they don't always see eye to eye.

Spirit and purpose in all things. For all creation, respect.

Life, she thought. Always a clash of opposites. Was there ever any real end to that great conflict?

A sensible man keeps out of politics

We must define a story which encourages us to make use of the place where we live without killing it, and we must understand that the living world cannot be replicated. There will never be another setup like the one in which we thrived. Ruin it and we will have lost ourselves, and that is craziness.

We must define a story which encourages us to make use of the place where we live without killing it, and we must understand that the living world cannot be replicated.

but good friendships require complementary personalities, not identical ones.

good friendships require complementary personalities, not identical ones.

And what a tree took away a tree shall restore

Be careful what you yearn for, because that which you desire most will either complete you or destroy you, and you don't get to choose.

The bee is domesticated but not tamed.

The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.

This is a lovely world, he sighed. And yet it has suffered horror. Sometimes, so-called civilization seems bent on destroying those very things which it is sworn to protect.

if you just take the outward, literal words of scripture and try to be obedient to the letter without desiring to be obedient to the full spirit of the passage, then it harms you rather than helps you.

Never call your office while you're on vacation. That's always been one of my hard and fast rules.

Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

Dunia adalah milik orang bersemangat yang bisa menjaga ketenangannya.

Es gibt keine gute Nachricht. Nur weil es eine schlechte Nachricht gibt, muss es nicht zwangsläufig gute Nachrichten geben.

The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect.

The image of the fundamental laws of physics zestfully wrestling with the void to bring the universe into being is one that suggests very little improvement over the accounts given by the ancient Norse in which the world is revealed to be balanced on the back of a gigantic ox.

All effort to bring order into disorder is disorder.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.