Quotes About Balance

Pursuing fun is exhausting. Having fun is just fun. Much more relaxing just to do your work, don't you think? I mean if you enjoy it.

In truth, Celine never went too long without eating. HALT. It was her AA training. Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired - don't let yourself become any of those, if you can help it.

Ich will zwei Menschen gleichzeitig sein. Der eine rennt weg.

No shit," Jack murmured. He was truly awed and relieved. The implacability and violence of nature always awed him. That it could be entirely heedless and yet so beautiful. That awed him. But also its intricate intelligence. Its balancings. Its quiet compensations. It was like some unnamed justice permeated everything. He would not go further than that. Still, the workings of nature made the voracious, self-satiating intelligence of humans seem of the lowest order, not the highest.

The joy of nonfiction is searching for balance between storytelling and reporting, finding a way to be both loquacious and observant.

The conservative society accepts that rebellion and bad behaviour are natural and must be curbed. The liberal society requires all its citizens to be perfectly balanced, conforming to its ideals and aims with a happy heart and a willing mind

the balance of power between the sexes had been destabilized, and relations between mothers and their children transformed from a natural and accepted one to a mere option.

If you want to support others you have to stay upright yourself.

One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation, and despair."4

Never discard the negative roots of any equation; always look at the dark side of any enlightenment.

Balancing concealment and exposure is one of the trickiest problems in personal relations and in social life at large.

Un microorganismo minúsculo se alimentaba del excremento de los murciélagos del suelo de la cueva; un gusano se comía el microorganismo; un escarabajo se comía el gusano; una araña se comía el escarabajo; finalmente, un murciélago se comía la araña. Era una cadena alimenticia perfecta.

Routine gave you structure. Structure gave you perspective. And perspective gave you a horizon.

All nature is waiting for us to become conscious because there's a particular quality of consciousness that only humans can provide. Nature needs that consciousness; cries out for it. And the process of deciphering Nature's need, then discovering how to respond to it, is what's called learning to become human.

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.

When they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat.

But Mosesí father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good.

Surely you and these people with you will wear yourselves out, because the task is too heavy for you. You cannot handle it alone.

Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,