Quotes About Balance

Civilization comes into being when the small fish is rescued from the big fish; civilization comes to an end when the fish keeps growing bigger than its pond.

A banyan tree may offer shade and hold the promise of permanence, but it does not let even a blade of grass grow around it, nor does it provide life-sustaining fruit for man. The banana plant offers no shade but its rapid regenerative ability ensures it provides food to sustain the family. Snow may be still but cannot sustain life. To sustain life, it must melt, turn into a river and flow down the plains.

Restraint is the key to regeneration and hence, also, sustainability.

All things are good and bad only in hindsight

When should we stop?' 'When your needs are met and before you fall prey to greed. Knowing when to stop is the hallmark of a good king,' said Krishna.

To empathize is dharma. Failure to empathize is adharma.

Do not punish yourself if you waver. Humans judge, nature does not.

I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I am now well aware of the difficulties women who are rearing children face when they're also trying to make headway in mainstream of film.

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

La curva es la forma que mejor nos acomoda porque podemos armonizar y deshacer nuestras diferencias. Mi estatura y la tuya, el peso, la distribución de los huesos, las bocas. La almohada sostiene equilibradamente nuestras cabezas, separa las respiraciones.

Generally office and home were far apart, and home was much more important than office. I was not ashamed of valuing my private life more highly than my work; that, to my mind, is what everyone ought to do.

Diana Beresford-Kroeger

Diana Butler Bass

It's the feeling that time is to be used efficiently and productively. Even though, you know really, that means if you can balance three spinning plates on sticks, you're rewarded with a fourth, then a fifth." A

One of the floral arrangements swayed like a drunken sailor, then toppled, clattering to the floor.

It's the underlying inequality. Someone is always the one who loves more, and it eventually drives the other—the less loving one—away. Just the pressure of it.

Most partners do not have sex frequently enough for optimum mental, physical, and emotional health.

I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.

Too much good taste can be boring

Too much good taste can be very boring.

I think the important thing about making a decision is just to make it. Otherwise you can go nuts thinking about the pros and cons.

So, when it comes to making a decision, look at both sides, listen to your heart, then pick one and dive in.

Working two part-time jobs and doing round-the-clock research was a snap compared to full-time motherhood," she said.

Growth alone is not enough for a good society—but neither is happiness alone.