Balance Quotes

I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

You have to be able to separate business from the love of the game. There were a lot of decisions made business-wise that I wasn't happy with, and I took a lot of blame over the years. But you have to be able to separate that from the love you have for the game.

Many find their heart when they have lost their head.

Love creates an "us" without destroying the "me".

Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it.

I'm certainly not a workaholic.

There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.

Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.

We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.

Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.

Self-confidence may be mistaken for egotism if it is not accompanied by humility of the heart.

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

Give and Take...For to the bee a flower is a fountain if lifeAnd to the flower a bee is a messenger of loveAnd to both, bee and flower,the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy.

I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.

Even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies.

The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.

True happiness springs from moderation.

And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?’ Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower, But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee. For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life, And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love, And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy. * People of Orphalese, be in your pleasures like the flowers and the bees.

Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.

He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.

A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time

So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.

There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.

Maximum individuality within maximum community

Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success.

Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.

Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that.

Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening“ so your life will stay fresh.

Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

Hence it will not do for the Landlord to possess too fine a nature.... He must have no idiosyncracies, no particular bents or tendencies to this or that, but a general, uniform, and healthy development, such as his portly person indicates, offering himself equally on all sides to men.

Play needs direction as well as work.

Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.

Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.

Nature is upheld by antagonism.

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.

Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.

I've always been a multi-passionate woman, so my passion for business existed right alongside my passion for dance.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. With the laugh comes the tears and in developing motion pictures or television shows, you must combine all the facts of life - drama, pathos and humor.

In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now.

Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.

This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and Day; the One and the Varied; the Eternal and the Evolving.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.

All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.

I don't think you should ever take life so serious that you forget to play.

Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons, we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.