Balance Quotes

Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.

At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.

not every breakfast needs to be something worthy of posting to a food blog. Sometimes food is simply fuel, something we eat to live. But with TV ads and billboards and in-store displays saying otherwise—in colorful and provocative ways—that can be a hard case to make.

You project a confident image through good body posture.

I am not always just living, just following all my fantasies; I come up for air, for understanding.

Sometimes nothing is the best thing to say and often the best thing to do.

The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being's difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself.

It's usually our opposites who complement us best, because they're the only ones who can balance us out.

Balance eases the heart.

If you give your best to someone it will most definitely come back to you, often from a different person altogether.

Treat me well and I will tell... Treat me bad and I feel sad. Treat me good, change my mood. Treat me sweet and call it quits!

The most difficult lesson is not being bitter—that balancing you need to do so you don't become bitter, even as you cease being gullible.

Don't confuse symmetry with balance.

Compassion: a robust dance between grace and wisdom.

There is nothing wrong with loving your work and wanting to apply yourself to it. But there is so much more to life. Balance is what is important, maintaining balance.

Your body is a Temple. You are what you eat. Do not eat processed food, junk foods, filth, or disease carrying food, animals, or rodents. Some people say of these foods, 'well, it tastes good'.Most of the foods today that statically cause sickness, cancer, and disease ALL TATSE GOOD; it's well seasoned and prepared poison. THIS IS WHY SO MANY PEOPLE ARE SICK; mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually; because of being hooked to the 'taste' of poison, instead of being hooked on the truth and to real foods that heal and provide you with good health and wellness.Respect and honor your Temple- and it will honor you.

Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience this problem differently?

Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.

Each one of us needs to discover the proper balance between the masculine and feminine energies, between the active and the receptive. (104)

Life has its sunshine and its rain, sir... its days and its nights... its peaks and its valleys...

Balance how much you give of youself, including volunteer activities.You won't do anyone any good you are stretched too thin.

Addiction to anything show signs of emptiness.Being an imbalanced individual is not sign of success.

what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.

When we change our thoughts, we will change our experiences.

The more completely you can be yourself, the more fully and consciously you participate in the world.

The balance message is that churches are to teach people the miracle workers themselves.

If your heart is conflicted, teach it to be unrestricted.

Suspense was an excellent tool for keeping powerful people off balance. It gave one bargaining power.

Our body always tells us what it wants and needs—the question is whether we are listening.

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?

To live on the edge requires an exceptional ability to balance.

Great posture never goes out of style.

Sometimes a pad on the back or just a simple word of comfort is all that it takes to bring someone under heavy stress back to balance.

There seems to be a sense of balance or equilibrium that nature attempts to achieve with the usage of cycles, leading us to the concept of self-organization and spontaneous order.

Everything in balance, everything in moderation – try not to go over the top in any direction but be free to explore & enjoy. Live heart-fully.I’m a writer & philosopher, of course I have the right to invent words! I try not to do it carelessly, I only write what sounds and feels right.

Health and happiness are the two most precious and elusive of human conditions. At their core, they are one and the same. Both are a function of balance.

The answers lie in not just hard science or philosophical rhetoric but in experiments of the imagination as well. Human perspective must be re-examined through an almost whimsical fount of imagination of species, magic, and clear creative thinking.

We will be able to depart this life with the quiet peace-giving notion, that we were permitted to contribute to the happiness of many who will live after us. In our long lives we endeavored to unfold the collective consciousness. In our lives we have known hell and heaven; the final balance, however, is that we helped pave the way to dynamic harmony in this earthly house. That, I believe, is the meaning of life.

Once, there were no predators, no prey. Only harmony. There were no quakes, no storms, everything in balance. In the beginning, time was all at once and forever — no past, present, and future, no death. We broke it all.

I want to caution you against the idea that balance has to be a routine that looks the same week in and week out.

A balanced inner calmness radiates from a peaceful centre. It neither craves others' approval nor rejects others' presence. It neither pulls towards nor pushes away. It has a reverent attitude towards life and all its inhabitants.

Alchemy is the process of changing lead into gold. Inner alchemy (personal transformation) occurs when we clear our clutter—internal and external—and let go of things that no longer serve us well. This creates balance and space, a place that nurtures contentment, which I believe is true success.

It's the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days

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.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection.

Balance is not a passive resting place—it takes work, balancing the giving and the taking, the raking out and the putting in.

I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would.

Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for writing, you won't write even if you have the time.

Find the portals to harmony and moments of balance on what you love to do and what you choose not to do.

A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.

The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It's only natural, and you will have to find the right balance. Having said that, let me add that this particular old woman hasn't been collecting only years; she has also collected stories, and none sadder or more terrible than the one she's about to tell you. You have been at the heart of this story without knowing it until today ...

People of balance age as gracefully as wines of balance.

Balance is the secret of reaching the far places!

Work to enjoy life. Work to create value. Work to survive, strive and thrive. But do not work...to work.

Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.

The chaos doesn't end, you kinda' just become the calm.

Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

The only real purpose of time is to escort humanity in and out of this mortal coil in an orderly fashion.

He was "more passionate than most intelligent men, and more intelligent and reasoned than most passionate men.