Quotes About Balance

lo que el mundo actualmente necesita es una inyección de la clase de sabiduría que las mujeres tienen

academics must maintain a delicate balance between necessary humility and the determination

Yes, you want your children to be happy. But sometimes they have to be unhappy in the short term to be happy in the long term. As parents, our job is to give our children what they need, not just what they want.

The friend of time doesn't spend all day saying: 'I haven't got time.' He doesn't fight with time. He accepts it and cherishes it.

Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose all sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn't make any difference whether they've reached the goal or not.

When a couple of adopting parents are choosing a daughter, I stand by with my heart in my mouth, feeling as though I were assisting in the inscrutable designs of Fate. Such a little thing turns the balance! The child smiles, and a loving home is hers for life; she sneezes, and it passes her by forever.

Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.

Most people don't live; they just race.

Peace in the head, peace in the stomach.

We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.

Pa gen lape nan tet, si pa gen lape nan vant (there is no peace in the head if there is no peace in the stomach).

Il créait dans leur couple une zone d'ombre d'où pourrait sortir le meilleur comme le pire.

Outside, it still smelled bad. I couldn't do anything about that. Neither could anyone. It was called life: a cocktail of love and hate, strength and weakness, violence and passivity.

I need to feel strongly, to love and to admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe. A letter from a friend, a Balthus painting on a postcard, a page of Saint-Simon, give meaning to the passing hours. But to keep my mind sharp, to avoid descending into resigned indifference, I maintain a level of resentment and anger, neither too much nor to little, just a s a pressure cooker has a a safety valve to keep it from exploding.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don't want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.

In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.

for the same carbon is forever passing from atmosphere to plant, from plant to animal, and from animal to atmosphere, this last being the common storehouse

for every wickedness, there is an equal and opposite possibility of redemption. In any

for every wickedness, there is an equal and opposite possibility of redemption.

He knows stability is the key, and he wants peace.

Temperance and labor are the two true physicians of man.

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

In a balanced viewpoint that includes both masculine and feminine perspective, healing is seen not as a technique, but as a process.