Quotes about Balance
It's like a battery that has to have a positive and a negative. One doesn't work without the other. You've gotta have the good and the bad in order to know what's right, and in order to know what's real and what ain't.
— Dolly Parton
My whole life has been about equal rights and opportunities. For me it really goes back to the health of mind, body and soul.
— Billie Jean King
Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.
— Henri Nouwen
I am rooted, but I flow.
— Virginia Woolf
Contentment is the equilibrium between the enjoyment of life now and the anticipation of what is to come.
— Priscilla Shirer
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
— William Hazlitt
If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.
— Wendell Berry
That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.
— Etty Hillesum
Life is really very simple. What we give out, we get back.
— Louise Hay
The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.
— Pablo Picasso
Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.
— Oprah Winfrey
If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.
— Henri Nouwen