Quotes About Balance

Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?

There is a time to plan, a time to act, and a time to rest; it is wise to know which is which.

You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

You have to laugh at yourself sometimes, cause you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

It's better to be happy than comfortable, if you can't have both.

Somewhere between good and bad - bits of both stuck together. Ma

In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time. Even Grandma often says that, but she and Steppa don't have jobs, so I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well. In Room me and Ma had time for everything. I guess the time gets spread very thing like butter over all the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit.

I must be cruel, only to be kind

S]he takes a killer. Sometimes she takes two, never more than two, because some things are good for us but too much is suddenly bad.

The hammock hangs on hooks in two trees at the very back of the yard, one is a shortish tree that's only twice my tall and bent over, one is a million times high with silvery leaves.

Grandma says there's more of him. What? Persons like him, in the world. Ah, says Ma. Is it true? Yeah. But the tricky thing is, there's far more people in the middle. Where? Ma's staring out the window but I don't know at what. Somewhere between good and bad, she says. Bits of both stuck together.

Jenny wouldn't be dead if she'd never crashed into Blanche on Kearny Street. P'tit wouldn't exist if Blanche had never met Arthur. Facts as hard as rocks, and Blanche has to pick her way among them, find her balance, with an acrobat's cocky smile.

It stands to reason that those who assault nature will suffer at her hands in the end.

The human mind needs boundaries. Without them it would fall in on itself, like a crushed honeycomb.

It was Anubis who set your heart on the scales against the Feather of Truth, and if your crimes weighed it down at all, it was thrown to the crocodile-faced demoness Ammit like any other scrap of meat. Only the clean-hearted got to walk forever in the Field of Reeds.

If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.

We all have good and bad in us, and we have to strive all the time to make the good cancel out the bad. We can never be perfect – we all of us do mean or wrong things at times – but we can at least make amends by trying to cancel out the wrong by doing something worthy later on.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy!

Leave something for someone but don't leave someone for something.

Artemis: I am not buoyed by that. Foaly: You are not supposed to be buoyed by that. You are supposed to be equalized. Mulch: I'm pretty sure that both of you just made really horrible jokes. But I'm not sure because I think you broke my funny bone.

You need to stop thinking with your head, Mud Boy, and start thinking with your heart." Artemis sighed. The heart was an organ for pumping oxygen-rich blood to the cells. It could no more think than an apple could tap-dance.

If you're going to read five books, three should be issues and two for fun.

It was funny how quickly a person's priorities could change. This morning he had been worried about which loafers to wear with his suit, and now all he could think about was the fact that his dearest friend's life hung in the balance, And the balance was rapidly shifting.

Calm, Butler told himself. Passion is the enemy of efficiency.