Quotes About Balance

She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person all that much, if you were busy with other things.

Walking is broken falls, the body leaning, the legs advancing to catch it.

His resentment of his wife, Caroline, was moderate and well contained.

His life was much fuller than hers, and the breathing space this gave her was welcome.

Ever since he'd discovered a secret passageway out of self-alienation, in the form of giving himself pleasure while also receiving it, he'd increasingly resented any activity that took him away from it.

Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.

Everyone cares about fairness, but there are two major kinds. On the left, fairness often implies equality, but on the right it means proportionality —people should be rewarded in proportion to what they contribute, even if that guarantees unequal outcomes.

Beneath the one who is busy is one who is not busy.

There are moments that define a person's whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance on a single decision. Life and death, hope and despair, victory and failure teeter precariously on the decision made at that moment. These are moments ungoverned by happenstance, untroubled by luck. These are the moments in which a person earns the right to live, or not.

It's the side-by-side culture of the Talmud I like so much. 'On the one hand' and 'on the other hand' is frustrating for people seeking absolute faith, but for me it gives religion an ambidextrous quality that suits my temperament.

There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.

She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.

Money can't buy you happiness, but happiness isn't everything.

There's a Hasidic proverb: 'While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.'" Jacob

You have to do something bad to do something good.

One can build a perfect home, but not live in it.

We cannot keep the kinds of meals we have known and also keep the planet we have known. We must either let some eating habits go or let the planet go. It is that straightforward, that fraught.

Life overflows with imperfections, but some matter more than others

Me pasé la vida aprendiendo a sentir menos. Cada día sentía menos. ¿Eso es madurar? ¿O es algo peor? Uno no puede protegerse de la tristeza sin protegerse al mismo tiempo de la felicidad».

We were looking for an acceptable compromise.

In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world.

La vergüenza es la sensación que nos invade cuando olvidamos casi por completo, pero no del todo, las expectativas sociales y nuestras obligaciones para con los otros, a cambio de nuestra satisfacción inmediata.

Mein Inneres reibt sich am Außen.

Non ci si può difendere dalla tristezza senza difendersi dalla felicità.