Quotes About Balance

The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

The formula for a successful relationship is simple: Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities, but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.

It was my policy never to spend more than half my wages so as not to have to work for more than half my days on earth.

two grinning Cheshire cats as the balance of power rolls over her

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

Led Zep played with light and shade, ear-splitting noise and echoing quiet. They could do it all.

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

There is a wide world out there, my friend, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth, and the latter makes the journey tolerable.

Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.

I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I feel that optimism and pessimism are very unbalanced. I am a very hard engineer. I am a mechanic. I am a sailor. I am an air pilot. I don't tell people I can get you across the ocean with my ship unless I know what I'm talking about.

Cooperen por encima de todo y no se impidan avanzar entre sí ni traten de ganar a costa de alguien más. Cualquier éxito disparejo, será pasajero.

Nature does not give to those who will not spend.

the more you fight the uncomfortable sensations directly, the stronger they seem to grow. The more you run from panic, the faster it seems to chase you. The more you avoid panic-provoking situations, the more panic controls your life. If we place ourselves on guard, waiting and watching for the next signs of trouble, we are inviting panic to return sooner. How? By establishing a special relationship with panic, a relationship of opposites.

Darkness shields as much as it threatens.

Can one be really happy at some one else's expense?

The Golden Number is a mathematical definition of a proportional function which all of nature obeys, whether it be a mollusk shell, the leaves of plants, the proportions of the animal body, the human skeleton, or the ages of growth in man.

It is unwise for them to be so very happy, for the gods will feel the need to humble us.

I don't know who said it first, but the following is good advice: If you do nothing but read your Bible, you will dry up; if you only pray, you will blow up; but if you read your Bible and pray, you will grow up.

A horse walks down the middle of the road. A human being, on the other hand, sticks to one extreme or the other.

No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself.

Among the many definitions of progress, "enemy of trees" and "killer of birds" seem to me the most apt.

Peaks cannot exist without valleys.

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.