Balance Quotes

In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.

~ Libba Bray

I see a world on the edge of a blade. Without balance, it will fall.

~ Victoria Aveyard

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

~ Anaïs Nin

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.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Living means constantly growing closer to death. Satisfaction only temporarily relieves hunger. Find the balance, and plant your feet.

~ Jackie Morse Kessler

Don't confuse symmetry with balance.

~ Tom Robbins

To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.

~ Stephen R. Covey

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.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Here's a nice image for a life in balance,” she said. “You're juggling these four balls that you've named work, family, friends, spirit. Now, work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it bounces back. The other balls they're made of glass.”“I've dropped a few of those glass balls in my day. Sometimes they chip, sometimes they shatter to pieces.

~ James Patterson

There is nothing that I so greatly admire as purposefulness. I have an enormous respect for people who know exactly what they are doing and where they are going. Such people are compact and integrated. They have clear edges. They give an impression of invulnerability and balance, and I wish I were one of them.

~ Louise Dickinson Rich

You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to living, you will not be able to die well. You must begin to shift gears, a little at a time. Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.--Nimit in Thailand

~ Haruki Murakami

Remember, you can be exalted without a college degree. You can be exalted without being slender and beautiful. You can be exalted without having a successful career. You can be exalted if you are not rich and famous. So focus the best that you can on those things in life that will lead you back to the presence of God - keeping all things in their proper balance.

~ M. Russell Ballard

[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.

~ Thornton Wilder

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

~ Kevin Thoman

I see now how things even up, how they are squared away, and how they balance under the law of love and justice. No year of life is emotionally, spiritually or even materially, all drought or all rainfall; nor is it all sun. The road turns a little every day, and one day there's a sudden twist we didn't dream was there, and for every loss there is somewhere a gain, for every grief a happiness, for every deprivation a giving.

~ Faith Baldwin

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

~ Ravi Ravindra

It was all balance. But then, she already knew that from surfing.

~ Eve Babitz

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.

~ Bronnie Ware

It’s still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we’d be sitting pretty in the middle of the Drowned Cities, shipping marble and steel and copper and getting paid Red Chinese for every kilo. We’d be rich and they’d be dead, if there was such a thing as the Scavenge God, or his scales. And that goes double for the Deepwater priests. They’re all full of it. Nothing balances out.

~ Paolo Bacigalupi

Life is a balance between emotional intelligence quotient (EQ) and intelligence quotient (IQ).

~ Amit Ray

How many contradictions! Eh! If I loaded my wagon all on the same side, I'd tumble it over.

~ Rémy De Gourmont

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

~ Sandy Fussell

It's all about balance, do you see? Balance is the trick. Keep the balance and - she stopped. You've ridden on a seesaw? One end goes up, one end goes down. But the bit in the middle, that stays where it is. Upness and downness go right through it. Don't matter how high or low the ends go, it keeps the balance. She sniffed. Magic is mostly movin' stuff around.

~ Terry Pratchett

be the calm eye of the storm where nothing phases you, focus on your centre to remain balanced, let your life flow like a stream of wind

~ Jay Woodman

Life rises out of death, death rises out of life, in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn. And with them all is reborn, the flower of the apple tree, the light of the stars.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

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

~ Richie Norton

And we cannot keep our balance. Myth gives way to Reason. Revelation to Orthodoxy. We must dance or go mad.

~ Tom Cheetham

A journalist who says, 'Well, I pissed off both sides--I must be doing something right,' is probably fooling himself and, worse, he may be fooling the reader. Balance should not be a smokescreen for laziness.

~ Joe Sacco

The journalist must strive to find out what is going on and tell it, not neuter the truth in the name of equal time.

~ Joe Sacco

In life there are many thing's you may not like or want but is necessary for stability and sustainability for life and its environment. GOOD -> BAD, BAD -> GOOD => GOOD = BAD.

~ Anonymouse

Balance is not something you find, it's something you create

~ Jana Kingsford

But none of that matters at all.” His head raised to stare balefully at me, but I said, incoherent yet convinced, “It’s just—a way to go. There isn’t only one way to go.” I waved at his notes. “You’re trying to find a road where there isn’t one. It’s like—it’s gleaning in the woods,” I said abruptly. “You have to pick your way through the thickets and the trees, and it’s different every time.

~ Naomi Novik

If I don't get murdered/Rob or have troubles/problems... somebody else should have them. This is called Ballance.

~ Deyth Banger

It's best to be like water,nurturing the ten thousand thingswithout competing,flowing into places people scorn,very like the Tao.Make the earth a dwelling place.Cultivate the heart and mind.Practice benevolence.Stand by your word.Govern with equity.Serve skillfully.Act in a timely way,without contentiousness,free of blame.

~ Sam Hamill

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~ Pearl Zhu

Achieving the right balance is all part of programming a news magazine.

~ Jonathan Kern

The reason we shouldn’t pursue balance is that the magic never happens in the middle, magic happens at the extremes.

~ Gary Keller

Everything is balanced. Everything physical (matter/energy) goes back and forth in balanced circles, cycles, or the equivalent. Birth-death, old-young, big-small, strong-weak, start-stop, up-down, rich-poor, beginning-end, fast-slow, hot-cold, pain-pleasure, win-lose, day-night, full-empty, high-low, in-out, success-failure, united-divided, give-receive, creation-destruction, on-off, positive-negative, etc.Positive and negative forces moving in balance are the physical universe.

~ Michael Smith

Just as there are none good but God, and nothing good but goodness, so there are no loves but love its self, the very love; and that what I call the other unnatural loves, are not loves at all in their own right but become so only so far as they participate in the very love.

~ C.s. Lewis

When bored of sitting, move! When bored of moving, sit! Balance your life or there will remain neither moving nor sitting in your life but only falling!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan