Quotes About Balance

Doug Rauch, former President of Trader Joe's, views employees and customers as two wings of a bird: you need both of them to fly. They go together—if you take care of your employees, they'll take care of your customers. When your customers are happier and they enjoy shopping, it also makes your employees' lives happier, so it's a virtuous cycle.

A movement made a hundred times before, a thousand times before, except this time, instead of muscle and nerve performing their everyday miracle of coordination, I tilted to the right and started to fall.

If you adjust your conscious filters to the appropriate setting, you can relax and let your subconscious take care of things. It's something I used to be good at.

The caterer was chatting, standing wide-legged and easy, knife moving this way and that as she talked, taking up her space a little too aggressively, the way women who have been raised with a lot of brothers tend to in a group of men. It was clear she had never considered using the knife for anything but food preparation; there was no awareness of its edge and balance as it related to the soft skin of the men around her.

A spider only has to set at the edge of a puddle to catch the fly that dives to drink. A shrew has only to watch in turn for the spider. For the fly most come to the edge to drink, and the spider must follow the fly. Fate goes ever as it must.

If you walk as though your mind is easy, your mind believes your body and becomes easy. If your mind is easy, your body believes it and becomes easy: a basic feedback loop.

Partnerships should be equal. You can protect her, yes, but shouldn't she also be able to protect you?

Shift your balance and everything changes.

Balance isn't about never going down, it's about free movement, self-determined movement.

The sense of the world shifting was so strong she swayed in the saddle.

This was the world I belonged to now, this one, where when a living thing died it fed others, where the scents were of mouse drops and sap, not exhaust fumes and cordite, and the air hummed with insects rather than screams and the roar of flame.

This was the kind of work I understood. I knew where wood came from, that for every tree cut down, another was planted, that I could make a chair both functional and beautiful. I was adding to the world, not taking.

She knows when to let go. You should, too.

Wise politics is the art of invigorating society and weakening the State.

The tissues of society become cancerous when the duties of some are transformed into the rights of others.

Wisdom consists in being moderate not out of horror of excess, but out of love for the limit.

All life "colonizes." Everything that lives aspires to live infinitely. Nothing spontaneously limits itself. No harmony is the result of mutual respect or reciprocal restraint; harmony stems from hostile interventions and the temporary balance of forces.

Wij moeten leren om partijdig te zijn zonder onrechtvaardig te zijn.

La política sabia es el arte de vigorizar la sociedad y de debilitar el Estado.

Order is a deception. But disorder is not a solution.

Men can be divided into those who make their life complicated to gain their soul and those who waste their soul to make their life easier.

With good humor and pessimism it is not possible to be either wrong or bored.

The longer nature delays in avenging the offenses committed against her, the crueler her vengeance.

Generalizing extends our power and impoverishes our spirit.