Quotes About Balance

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.

Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

People no longer wanted right or left—they wanted middle-of-the-road.

Julia and her family, like many others in the GDR, trod this line between seeing things for what they were in the GDR, and ignoring those realities in order to stay sane.

No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.

Moi je suis comme un cerf-volant, si quelqu'un ne tient pas la bobine, pfft, je m'envole… Et toi, c'est drôle, je me dis souvent que tu es assez fort pour me retenir et assez intelligent pour me laisser filer…

Ich bin wie ein Drachen im Wind, wenn jemand die Schnur losläßt, pfff, fliege ich davon. Und du, das ist witzig, ich denke oft, dass du stark genug bist, um mich zu halten, und intelligent genug, um mich ziehen zu lassen.

Je suis assez honnête, moi, pour faire la part des choses entre le beau et le vrai et préféré le beau quand il s'impose.

There are certain shocks which, if sufficiently strong, seem to have power to destroy the balance of life. Such a shock would seem to overthrow all the intricate, vital, slowly developed mechanism of mind, to plunge the victim into a chaotic half-world of confusion and loss. This is what had happened to Anna.

I filmed seven movies in 2011 and I think that was a mistake. I pushed myself too hard and I want to be able to come to work each day and give 100 percent. I guess I found out what my boundaries are.

First, all that taming and mastering has made such a mess that it is unclear whether life on earth can continue.

It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind.

Rhythm is a fundamental fact of life, the key, indeed, to the universe.

A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree–or even, occasionally, the careless–may turn out to be half a life.

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.

The number of ethnic Poles left in Ukraine is tiny, and Poland has no leverage over Ukrainian affairs. Whereas Khmelnytsky tried to play off Muscovy against the Poles, today's Ukraine balances Russia against America.

I know. Brains and dicks. Maybe they're too far apart to function together.

Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won't accept.

Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how to use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won't accept.

Whatever equilibrium your nation reaches, there is always someone, at home or abroad, who has reasons to upset it.

I]f you adapted too much in order to deal with them, you ran the risk of forgetting who you were and you could end up being neither and nothing.

And when one kind of animal overruns an area to the point where many kinds of animal begin to starve, it's up to the predators to thin out the herds before there's nothing left for anyone. That's a simple truth whether you're talking about deer or humans.