Balance Quotes And Sayings

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“The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning.”
– Peter Hoeg

“The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin

“To light a candle is to cast a shadow…”
– Ursula K. Le Guin

“You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose… That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?”
– Ursula K. Le Guin

“We have an internal check and balance system. By design we are so filled with possibility, opportunity, with greatness that when we live small, within the bottom of our capability, we innately know we should be living greater than that, and it creates a disconnect inside that leads us to feeling empty, unhappy, maybe even depressed.”
– Steve Maraboli

“There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature‘s mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?”
– George Eliot

“Always trust your fellow man. And always cut the cards. Always trust God. And always build your house on high ground. Always love thy neighbor. And always pick a good neighborhood to live in.”
– Robert Fulgham

“Life is all about balance. Since I have only one leg, I understand that well.”

– Sandy Fussell

“Words to invoke peace & awareness. Words to create freedom and fairness. Words to plant sacred seeds. and sing us back into balance.”
– Jay Woodman

“Jaren found that, in doing balancing exercises, he could shut out not only the anxiety he felt but also the whisperings of the magic. The more he practiced, the better he could insulate himself from its insistent voice, and all other worries, and just focus on being…”
– Derek Donais

“When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,—or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge’s phrase, for unity in variety.”
– Bronowski

“He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.”
– Machado de Assis

“There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.”
– Alain de Botton

“Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.”
– Mark Z. Danielewski

“Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.”
– G.K. Chesterton

“I’d learned balance is internal; that there really wasn’t one set formula for how to live your life nor how to handle the wife-mother-businesswoman juggling act. Maybe it was just being tuned in to every role and knowing when one or the other needed to be the focus.”
– Kaira Rouda

“No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death.”
– Dave Eggers

“People of balance age as gracefully as wines of balance.”
– John Jordan Jordan Vineyard Winery

“Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance – a teaming up of the internal rivals – is optimal for brains. … Some balance of the emotional and rational systems is needed, and that balance may already be optimized by natural selection in human brains.”
– David Eagleman

“It’s all about balance. Balancing exercise, food, and life. No excesses.”
– Helen M. Ryan

“The body, the mind, and the spirit don’t form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn’t below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it’s between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can’t get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence.”
– Jane Smiley

“Whatever your passion is – even if you’re great at it – it can’t be the only thing you do… If you do, you’ll be great at that one thing… and bad at everything else… Getting that balance is not easy…”
– Eric Berlin

“Life runs in a narrow path to balancing act, convincing tact, and satisfying fact.”
– Santosh kalwar

“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.”
– Steve Maraboli

“Appreciate the lessons of the past and enjoy the newness of the future, yet remember the present is today.”
– Annette Thomas

“Inside an oasis , there are many little deserts.”
– The Convert Comic

“Fear, anger, stubbornness, and distrust portray themselves as your rescuers. Actually these energies only make you more closed off. Tell yourself: Nobody ever solved a situation by panicking; no one ever solved a situation by refusing to hear new answers; no one solved a situation by shutting down…”
– Deepak Chopra

“In the space between your thoughts there is your truth.”
– Reuben Lowe

“Your action from a choice within, which requires no reason, no content of thought, is pure creation.”
– Reuben Lowe

“Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance.”
– Marie Louise von Franz

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