Quotes About Balance

Um auf Dauer gesund zu bleiben, sollte man nie ganz gesund sein

It makes one so healthy to live in a garden, so healthy in mind as well as body.

My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression!

It's being a grown up, which I never figured out how to do, scrubbing the tub, and remembering to eat and shampoo my hair. It's the basics: I can write a whole book, but I cannot handle the basics.

There are all these things my mother is good for that my father isn't, and all these things my father is good for that my mother isn't, and if only they could work out their differences, or keep the dim of discord to a minimum, I could have two whole parents.

You can look at my life and say there've been some real tragedies, and there have been. But there've also been some exquisitely beautiful times. To me, those far outweigh the others.

Look you not throw your music after pride: it's a rude servant, but a cruel master.

That wild animals have largely moved out of our view is of small note to many of us. We think, abstractly, that they live out there somewhere, browsing or flying or killing or doing whatever it is they do, and we think that we are keeping them among us by the sheer force of our desire, even as we consume, insatiably, the places where they live.

In my food world, there is no fear or guilt, only joy and balance. So no ingredient is ever off-limits. Rather, all of the recipes here follow my Usually-Sometimes-Rarely philosophy. Notice there is no Never.

And who knows, thought Cadfael, which is in the right, the young man who sees the best in all, and trusts all, or the old one who suspects all until he has probed them through and through? The one may stumble into a snare now and then, but at least enjoy sunshine along the way, between falls. The other may never miss his footing, but seldom experience joy. Better find a way somewhere between!

Never let it shake your faith that there is a balance hereafter. What you see is only a broken piece from a perfect whole.

Usually he overdid things, this time he got it right, or as right as something only equivocally right in itself can be got.

Did you ever feel, Hugh, that it might be better to let even ill alone, wondered Cadfael ruefully, rather than let loose worse?

When things reach the extreme, they alternate to the opposite.

Notes of the same key respond to one another; Odors of the same nature merge together. Water flows toward what is wet, Fire rises toward what is dry. Clouds follow dragons; Winds follow tigers.

Let knowledge grow from more to more,But more of reverence in us dwell;That mind and soul, according well,May make one music as before.

The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.

And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapp'd in universal law.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition; and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system.

Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

The art of progress is to reserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

Wisdom is the fruit of a balanced development.