Quotes About Balance

If she finished her work—hah, now there was a fantasy, this work would never be finished, only abandoned, or, all right, passed on—she might squeeze out another day off by next weekend.

Fear outran its cause

Lordship comes too easy, for some. And it was lordship near slew the world.

You must learn to give, from sufficiency, not only take, from neediness.

If people were too sensible, the human race might well come to an end. Evolution favored the maximum production of children, not of happiness. So how did you end up with neither?

Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.

Everything in Heaven and Earth is the reflection of everything in Heaven and Earth. ? Everything in Heaven and Earth contains the pattern of everything in Heaven and Earth.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effects when taken in too large quantities.

When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond.

Well, shoot, I don't believe in double standards, where men can get away with things that women can't. In God's eyes, there's no double standard.

Un hombre inteligente siempre sabe cuando retirarse a tiempo...pero un hombre aun mas inteligente sabe cuando volver a empezar

Everything about you suits everything in me.

Good healthy anger that is blocked can then seem like feral rage. But when you accept it and work with it, it becomes the ability to stand up for yourself.

Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time.

The ants are my friends- they're blowing in the wind

You only live at once. Which seemed to her all the more reason to be careful, to take it easy, to have an ordinary life.

Una vida así requería una autoestima exagerada. Suponía tener cantidades excesivas de esperanza y desesperación, y ponerlas al tuntún, como países tercermundistas del continente de las emociones.

It's two against one out here; we just keep taking turns.

Despite all my curatorial impulses and training, my priestly harborings and professional, courtly suit of the past, I never knew what to do with all those years of one's life: trot around in them forever like old boots--or sever them, let them fly free? Of course, one couldn't really do either. But there was always the trying, and pretending. And then there was finally someplace in between, where one lived.

Nothing is as good as it seems, and nothing is as bad as it seems. Somewhere in between lies realty.

Men don't always know what they need. That's why God made women.

Me? I'm not lazy, I'm just passionate about leisure.

Symmetry is only a property of dead things.

We live, he [Gandhi] felt, not in order to feed, clothe, shelter and pamper the body; we provide for the body in order to live. Life begins after the needs of the body have been met, yet how many people ruin life for the sake of rich living. The soul, alas, needs a temporary abode, but a clean mud hut will do as well as a palace, indeed better, for when the physical absorbs the lion's share of a man's effort the spirit languishes, life loses content, and discontent appears.