Quotes About Balance

parity is the higher form of charity.

The art of diplomacy is finding a reasonable route among imperfect alternatives.

In order for us to live within this finely balanced constellation of complex systems, in order for the Earth to show resilience and last for centuries into the future as an environment of human life, we have to embody three things: a respect for Earth systems and their details in balance; a commitment to discovering and sharing the truth and only the truth at all times about all things; and a commitment to doing no harm.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

O balances sentimentales.

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.

Too much fast food and too much caffeine, her doctor said. Good advice, but eating well and exercising took time Tracy didn't have

When ninety-five percent of your life is good, don't sweat the other five percent.

pitched off-kilter at almost a forty-five-degree angle.

Sleep was like sex. The less you had

errand girl, lawyer, mommy, and to pacify a grown man's

She treated strange dogs the way she treated the ocean. She gave each a healthy dose of respect and never turned her back on either.

There's a huge difference between love and need. Someone who needs you will put themselves first. Someone who loves you will put you first.

Fine, but what about your wife? she'd asked. Is she going to have a fucking problem? I hope not, Kins had said. With three kids under the age of eight, that's about the last fun thing we do together. She

Fine, but what about your wife? she'd asked. Is she going to have a fucking problem? I hope not, Kins had said. With three kids under the age of eight, that's about the last fun thing we do together.

Most indigenous cultures also have elaborate theories about health and disease, seamlessly entwined with their mythological understanding of the universe and their place in it. Although the details vary, a frequent theme is that illness is caused by having too much or too little of a particular substance in the body.

It has been suggested that the heart of sin is taking oneself too seriously.

Catholicism consistently celebrates the coming together of contraries, not in the manner of a bland compromise, but rather in such a way that the full energy of the opposing elements remains in place.

There is grace for everything: grace to come and grace to go, grace to speak and grace to keep silent, grace to mourn and grace to dance, grace to weep and grace to laugh, grace to pack and grace to unpack, grace to be sick and grace to heal, grace to plant and grace to harvest, grace to tear down and grace to build up, grace to love and grace to hate, grace to live and grace to die. From beginning to end, life becomes a rhapsody of grace. Even the desire for grace comes by grace.

Cadets can neither be treated as schoolboys or soldiers.

The pursuit of fewer errors is sensible; the insistence on none at all, counterproductive.

Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.

Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.