Quotes About Balance

Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannot always be sweetness and light.

I have brought you half of my pancakes, said Gollie. And I have removed one of my outrageous socks, said Bink. It's a compromise bonanza!

We must all learn the measure of our strength. Otherwise we exhaust ourselves striving for that which we can never gain.

Even having only two arms he had a lean, powerful symmetry and grace of form.

The Coven of Witches, however, believed only in the natural forces of the world. Everyone was free to seek their own path to wisdom and to worship in whatever way they pleased. If they prayed, it was to Eà, who encompassed both light and darkness, life and death, the creative and the destructive. Eà was neither good nor evil, male nor female. Eà was both and neither.

Kukira yang paling kusukai dari dirinya adalah bahwa dia membuat kesederhanaan jadi indah. Kedengarannya mudah, tapi hal besar pada saat itu. Sekarang juga masih. Berapa kali kau berada di restoran yang seharusnya bagus tapi kau bahkan tidak bisa merasakan makanannya karena terselubung dalam... inovasi?

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.

There were always too many hours in the day and never enough in the night.

How can you possibly reconcile the great inequities of gender – coupled with the perversions of age and the randomness of everything?

That sounds really interesting. I'm working on A, B, and C right now. Which should I set aside in order to focus on this project?

The nicest thing you did was to take me seriously when a lot of people wouldn't have, but not too seriously, which was just right.

Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.

You save the whales and shoot the people, huh?

Sometimes you have to favor your heel, even if it means you're hurting your toe.

They decided they were too hooked on money and success, so they bought that old farm and they're going to farm it and think about what's important.

supposed to be OK again to like peace

There is revenge and then there is justice. Sometimes the two are met as one. -Christopher

Oftentimes, what causes old people to become poor walkers is poor walking. One must bend one's knees. One must lift one's feet up. One must be unceasing. One mustn't shuffle.

What does he want you to do? What does she? And how can this be accomplished with the least effort possible so that time will be left for the real, important things? Here we are, figuring out how to survive in a hive of hierarchies, and they want us to memorize dates and decline agricola.

If you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are only for yourself, what are you? If not now, when? –Rabbi Hillel

although boldness of action is always called for, it must be tempered by wisdom and restraint, and too often it is not.

In der Ruhe liegt die Kraft"—"There is strength in calm

to get in on both sides, and there's space for a

It's hard to explain how this works, and I admit that it's fairly implausible or untenable as a way of life, but that seems to be how I go about my days: peaceably in person, fiercely on paper.