Quotes about Balance

Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.

How would I explain to him that I couldn't make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I would immediately lose my inner balance? How would I explain that one of the arms of my internal scales would suddenly shoot upward? How would I explain that my hatred of him counterbalanced the weight of evil that had fallen on my youth? How would I explain that he embodied all the evils in my life? How would I explain to him that I needed to hate him?

You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.

Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.

You're able to love others, to give to others, and do for others by giving and doing for yourself first.

Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty.

As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

You can't decide to value your child sometimes, and then put a game of Farmville, or golf, or a scrapbooking session before kids on other days. Values are non-negotiable like that.

Your ability to choose between the important and the unimportant is the key determinant of your success in life and work.

If you don't spend quality time with your loved ones or do things that are important in your life, someone or something less important will take up your time.

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.