Quotes About Balance

I have faith that men can be as reasonable and logical as women if they but try.

You must engage in horizontal refreshment. It isn't healthy to congest oneself like that.

One may be elegant or enthusiastic, but seldom both. If

Verá, doctor, los aristócratas somos como los funámbulos. No nos damos cuenta de lo que hay debajo de nosotros.-Julia Grey

For just these few hours, I was on the tightrope again, balanced precariously between glory and disaster, and the thrill of it coursed through me with far more effect than the glittering wine.

That is the hallmark of a good partnership, you know—when one partner sees the forest and the other studies the trees.

One may be elegant or enthusiastic, but seldom both.

Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.

One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.

The most true-love words are not the ones that grasp and hold and bind you, twisting you both up together in some black dance. No, they are ones that leave you free to stand alone on your own solid ground, leave him to do the same, a tender space between you.

Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its depth.

Most people, it seems like they've only got one part of the equation down. Caring for themselves, or caring for someone else. And I'v learned how important it is to have both.

Empathy took the edge off, and the truth is, we need our edge. Our edge is trying to speak to us, and we are too, too good at shutting it up.

Nice can have an edge.

Life and our love for others is a balancing act, I understand then; a dance between our instinct to be safe and hold fast, and our drive to flee, to run - from danger, toward new places to feed ourselves.

It makes me nervous, the way the biggest things and the smallest live together day in and day out.

And maybe that's the closest definition for the word we can get, a life equation: An absence of wanting equals happiness.

There. But then I change my mind. I think of us poor, old human beings doing the best we can, struggling with being either too much of who we are or too little.

A sure way to go broke is to spend your outer riches before you have saved enough of your inner ones.

Until our education system is repositioned to take care of the tripartite nature of a human being - head, heart and hand, we cannot make healthy progress as a nation or individuals.

Life is not only consisted of "yes" and "no", but a lot of "yes and's" and "no but's".

Live spiritually and you'll be fine.

Find the earth within.

A day of rest yields a hundred days of progress.