Quotes About Balance

I loved taking off. In my own house, I seemed to be often looking for a place to hide - sometimes from the children but more often from the jobs to be done and the phone ringing and the sociability of the neighborhood. I wanted to hide so that I could get busy at my real work, which was a sort of wooing of distant parts of myself.

What good is it if you read Plato and never clean your toilet? asked my mother, reverting to the values of Jubilee.

She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood—that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements. It could be brimful of occupations which did not weary you to the bone.

Sick people grew to resent well people, and sometimes that was true of husbands and wives, or even of mothers and their children. Both

It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happiness -- however temporary, however flimsy -- of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another.

Life is always so full. Getting and spending we lay waste to our powers. Why do we let ourselves be so busy and miss doing things we should have, or would have, liked to do?

Getting and spending we lay waste our powers. Why do we let ourselves be so busy and miss doing things we should have, or would have, liked to do? Remember

It was a most insistent place but nobody seemed to be overwhelmed by all the insistence.

Demasiada felicidad

love is the strut and hate is the stumble.

Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions

You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead.

I feel peace with the world.

It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it; it has not been proved that the country can live without the land.

T}here is a point at which even grief feels absurd. And at this point, laughter gushes up to retrieve sanity.

I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together.

Peace: the fruit of justice done especially to the Self.

I am so happy. I got love, I got work, I got money, friends and time.

it was this inner peace that attracted peace around her.

It is a way of saying you must not live too much in your head. It is a way of reminding you to stay in your emotions, no matter how nutty they are; it is a way of saying, also, that craziness has value.

Já é duro o bastante tentar levar a vida sem ser maluco.

that human compassion is equal to human cruelty and that it is up to each of us to tip the balance. I

You must harmonize your own heart... Only you will know how you can do that; for each of us it is different. Then harmonize, as much as this is ever possible, your surroundings.

A cerca que nós montou vai te dar uma liberdade certa, mas só se ocê não tiver medo de pegar numa arma. A arma é importante. Porque não sei se amor funciona com todo mundo. Um pouco de amor, um pouco de bala, é assim que acho que ocê devia fazer.