Quotes About Balance

#1. Anyway,' she said more seriously this time, 'whatever it takes, find out what it is you're willing to suffer for. You've got to balance pleasure with pain in this life.

Okamoto Kanoko

#2. There's not a better feeling than when you have found that moment of balance and harmony when both running and life come together. Then you know why you run and that you couldn't live without it.

Joan Benoit

#3. The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. Keeping the daily demands of life in balance is one of the great tasks of mortality. There is no peace for those whose lives are out of balance temporally or spiritually.

Brent L. Top

#5. Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies.

Mario Lopez

#6. (F)or it was the belief of the duchy that no nation can be governed well unless there is a majority which can impose its will upon a minority. A complete balance of pros and antis could produce nothing but deadlock.

Leonard Wibberley

#7. You are water, you understand - electrified water. The elements and balance of ocean water match the blood in your human body. Humans were made from the ocean. This is one of the greatest secrets of creation.

Barbara Marciniak

#8. It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you.

Andre Benjamin

#9. Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

Comte De Lautreamont

#10. The demons aren't the noise. They are our aversion to the noise ... when you can accept discomfort, doing so allows a balance of mind. That surrender, that letting go of wanting anything to be other than it is right in the moment, is what frees us from hell.

Stephen Levine

#11. But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

Anita Roddick

#12. No person has ever held all the power. There must be a balance between chaos and order, dark and light. With the Temple magic bound to you, the realms are no longer in balance. The power could change you ... and you could change the magic.

Libba Bray

#13. Chakra Meditation is designed to bring you back to neutrality, to a place of balance. You might call this "Zero Point", a place where you can begin again with a fresh, new mind.

Ilchi Lee

#14. You can be a good mom and still work out, get your rest, have a career - or not. My mother encouraged me to find that balance.

Michelle Obama

#15. Winter comes to balance the warm glow of summer and to teach us to cherish it. A few minutes outside in the cold helps me to remember that.

Debora Geary

#16. Work ... family - I'm doing it all. But here's the secret I share with so many other nanny- and housekeeper-less mothers I see working the same balance: my house is trashed. It is strewn with socks and tutus.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#17. Anything that can create balance in dogs is great. If veterinarians can give you the solution and give you why this is causing the behavior, of course. Anything that is good for an animal, let's do it.

Cesar Millan

#18. I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important.

Tom Hanks

#19. I am jewelry and objects together. This is the Elsa Peretti name to me. It is a very good balance for me to try and create with the person in mind or with the space in mind - to imagine a bowl of fruit or something for water. It is a little bit yin and yang.

Elsa Peretti

#20. Christy Turlington is my idol. She really is. She's a gorgeous woman inside and out. I admire her work in the charity field. She's just been able to balance it all - and gracefully, as well.

Karlie Kloss

#21. We must introduce a new balance in the relationship between the individual and the government
a balance that favors greater individual freedom and self-reliance.

Gerald R. Ford

#22. It is not simply a transient happiness that you experience in meditation that creates balance; it is a transformative light. Inner light is the most powerful thing there is.

Frederick Lenz

#23. It's the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days

Tim Minchin

#24. It's more my own thing if I do instrumentals, but I also do really love collaborating with vocalists, so it's a good balance.

Flume

#25. The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar.

Francis Crick

#26. This is Nature - the balance of colossal forces ... the mighty Cosmos in perfect equilibrium produces - this ... sometimes it seems to me that man is come where he is not wanted ... why should he run about here and there, talking about the stars, disturbing the blades of grass?
from Lord Jim

Joseph Conrad

#27. Life finds its balance. Children grow up. Second chances come along. In the meantime, I could choose to savor this moment. What good would it do to allow annoyance to interfere with gratitude?

Katrina Kenison

#28. In particular, I want to set a challenge to public bodies and private companies to improve gender balance on their own boards.

Nicola Sturgeon

#29. The heart had the dark to balance out the light, the uncertainty to balance dreams.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#30. That's the thing- with that summer and hard times in general, you've gotta take the salty with the sweet. It's always a balance.

Mamrie Hart

#31. Within each piece, I create an intriguing balance between jewelry and the body, and an intensity which draws others to it.

Sarah Richardson

#32. I have a race routine. I have a team of people helping me. I have winning habits. I believe in myself. I have balance in my life.

Lindsey Vonn

#33. Kingston is so chill. He goes with me everywhere. He's been to every studio in L.A., New York, London. He lives up to his name-total Rasta boy. He gives me a real balance. You can go 100 miles an hour, but you still have to stop to hang out with him.

Gwen Stefani

#34. You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

Bernadine Dohrn

#35. Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography? The proportions of that notion seem ridiculously out of balance. Yet, that very idea has motivated me.

James Nachtwey

#36. Our essence is change. We are movement. Being out of balance is life.
Perfect balance. Stasis. That is death.
Life yearns for perfection. Death is perfection.

Chris Boucher

#37. Health is wholeness and balance, an inner resilience that allows you to meet the demands of living without being overwhelmed.

Andrew Weil

#38. DYNAMIC HOMEOSTASIS Dynamic homeostasis means that whenever a part of the system is out of balance, the rest of the members of the system will try to bring it back into balance.

John Bradshaw

#39. I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult.

Katy Perry

#40. A job, in their view, was a job, and, as with most jobs, you just had to find that perfect balance between doing as little as possible so you didn't get tired, and just enough so that you didn't get fired.

John Connolly

#41. We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.

Henry Fielding

#42. The decision on the right balance between competition and investment can no longer be solely a national issue.

Viviane Reding

#43. The danger to power is obsession - power junkies. You need a very strong mind and humor to balance yourself. If you don't, you will get shredded.

Frederick Lenz

#44. Balance The Stress Factor The Beauty of Mental Space Emotional Intelligence Take A Breath Negative Emotions Time and Priorities Boundaries A Culture of Wellness

Sharon Salzberg

#45. You get a sense of reference there. You feel part of something that's got order and balance and harmony to it. All the distraction and noise, all the confusion of misplaced, misdirected energy just don't happen there.

Harrison Ford

#46. But, on balance, we seized the marketplace. We've got a great infrastructure. And yes it's struggling in some areas because of some external factors and some internal factors.

Jim Cantalupo

#47. Not only does a regular intense exercise programme elevate spirits, it enables the Type O to maintain weight control, emotional balance and a strong self-image.

Peter J. D'Adamo

#48. She left the event with gold medals in the all-around, vault, floor and uneven bars. She also nabbed the silver medal on the balance beam.

Christine Dzidrums

#49. Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

Warren Bennis

#50. [in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time ... I possess a power of magic ... [to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind ...

Anais Nin

#51. I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.

Ellen G. White

#52. Anakin was sixteen years old. Impatience was wired into his being. Despite Anakin's strong Force connection, it would most likely take years before he developed true inner balance.
Obi-Wan, on the other hand, was supposed to have it already.

Jude Watson

#53. This car of mine, I am tickled to death with it. The machine is nearly everything, its power, stability and balance. The driver, allowing for his experience and courage, is much less.

Malcolm Campbell

#54. On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you.

John O'Donohue

#55. One of the stated values at IronPort was 'work/life balance,' but I wasn't living it. I was rarely home. And when I was home, well, let's just say I wasn't particularly helpful or cheery.

Scott Weiss

#56. Nobody knows everything that's hidden in the balance sheets of banks. In fact, they are completely impenetrable.

Jerome Kerviel

#57. I have times when I'm off-balance. I have times when I slur my words. I have times when I walk into walls. I have times when I can't remember somebody's name.

Michael J. Fox

#58. Success is subjective. Your dream bank balance could be someone else's nightmare.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#59. The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and
his own discrimination.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#60. Certain things do not effect me anymore, which is not always good. There is always commotion, but I notice that hardly anything affects me or puts me out of balance.

Ruud Van Nistelrooy

#61. But perhaps my blocked sinuses did have something to do with how bad I was at gym, perhaps after all I did lack balance?

Lorna Sage

#62. Your parents were far from saints, Alice. It would be generous to say they were ordinary people who made some very serious mistakes. Don't make them out to be perfect. That's too thin a wire for anyone to be able to keep their balance.

Tracy Guzeman

#63. That was a thing of wolves; they could know the past and the future, yet keep their attention on the hunt. Could he do the same? Allow himself to be consumed when needed, yet keep balance in other parts of his life?

Robert Jordan

#64. Those carrying a credit card balance should scale back to making the minimum payment each month so they have more money to put into savings.

Suze Orman

#65. Everything in the world was in precarious balance, pure risk, and those who didn't agree to take the risk wasted away in a corner, without getting to know life.

Elena Ferrante

#66. We really do see astigmatically, in fundamental sense: our space and time creations of our own psyche and when these momentarily falter - like acute disturbance of middle ear.
Occasionally we list eccentrically, all sense of balance gone.

Philip K. Dick

#67. He has taken she who is mine, so I shall take from him, she who is his. Balance. Only then will I take his life
and that is vengeance. (Juan Flores)

Patricia Briggs

#68. Life is not about how much money is spent trying to impress the opposite sex, it's about finding balance and respect.

Jes Fuhrmann

#69. The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch; it's good to know your personal limit.

Robert Genn

#70. The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance.

Christian Louboutin

#71. [Reanu Reeves] is a very imaginative actor. He can have this wonderful balance of humor and fear. He's got these skills to be entertaining but also quite terrifying.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#72. As a teenager, my struggle was how do I balance being empathetic and compassionate towards my peers, while also living my life for myself and not basing my decisions on those around me, and really living a life where I receive my happiness from my own experiences rather than from people pleasing.

Shailene Woodley

#73. So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.

Godfrey Reggio

#74. War's balance will prevail.

Janet Morris

#75. Governors have to balance budgets. And they have to make decisions. And they have to do things that sometimes aren't popular. And they also have to bring people together to try to solve problems.

Jeb Bush

#76. Both parents' rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.

Warren Farrell

#77. There's a major fault in Western society. It makes room for only one god, and in only one gender. There's no balance, no co-existence, no partnership.

Tomson Highway

#78. Companies should not have a singular view of profitability. There needs to be a balance between commerce and social responsibility ... The companies that are authentic about it will wind up as the companies that make more money.

Howard Schultz

#79. Ultimately, the courts will make the final judgment whether the White House has gone too far. Independent and impartial judges must assess the proper balance between protecting our liberties and protecting our national security.

Edward Kennedy

#80. Why was it children were always the exact opposite of their siblings? What sort of chaos or balance did that explain about the world?

Anonymous

#81. I agree that Ruskin has done much harm to counter balance much good in giving people the trick of talking about Art instead of really doing a little of it to enable them to understand.

William H. Hunt

#82. People under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

Franz Kafka

#83. She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#84. A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.

Clark Kerr

#85. If the moon faerie became like the sun faerie, there would be eternal day and if the sun faerie became like the moon faerie, it would be pitch dark. Therefore you balance each other out. Do you see?

Anja Owona Okoa

#86. There is balance in taste, too, and an unbalanced taste can't captivate the eater. In order to create harmony, you have to think about balance, and to get balance in the kitchen you have to follow seemingly insignificant but crucial rules.

Kyung-ran Jo

#87. We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.

Cesare Pavese

#88. I eat mostly organic, but I love macaroni and cheese, Mexican food, and egg-and-cheese croissants. So when I indulge, I eat protein and veggies for the rest of the day. It really is all about moderation and balance.

Marisa Miller

#89. We all have the means to be prosperous. We have to find the balance between our wealth and our needs

Robert Bourassa

#90. Science and religion were not enemies, but rather allies - two different languages telling the same story, a story of symmetry and balance ... heaven and hell, night and day, hot and cold, God and Satan. Both science and religion rejoiced in God's symmetry ... the endless contest of ight and dark.

Dan Brown

#91. You will not achieve work/life balance as long as you believe there is a difference between the two. When you find life in your work and work with your life, you will have only life.

Alan Cohen

#92. I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.

David Mitchell

#93. Balance is what distinguishs a people from a mob.

Frank Herbert

#94. All those trucks and barges that carry our goods to port are vital connections to the only force which can balance our trade deficit: export. We must keep doing what we do best if we are going to get America out of the red.

Jo Ann Emerson

#95. The nation that buys commands, the nation that sells serves; it is necessary to balance trade in order to ensure freedom; the country that wants to die sells only to one country , and the country that wants to survive sells to more than one.

Jose Marti

#96. Well, we try to - we definitely try to have a balance. And I think things have gotten a lot better at Pixar. When we did "Toy Story," that was an all hands on deck situation that really was time intensive.

Pete Docter

#97. After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill.

Mathias Rust

#98. The sole purpose of universal justice is to keep man's character in balance

Judy Azar LeBlanc

#99. In that moment, I felt differently to myself yet the essence of who I really was.
Like a perfect state of balance.

Tim Relf

#100. There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Alain De Botton