Quotes about Balance
Be tough minded but tenderhearted.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Do you always want to be right, or do you want to be happy
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Appeals to reason and religion do not change the balance of power, because both are used to defend the interests of oppressors.
— James H. Cone
You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
— James Madison
Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
— Wayne Dyer
The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression.
— Marianne Williamson
We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.
— Francis de Sales
Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.
— Margaret Mead
... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.
— George Eliot
Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.
— Marianne Williamson