Balance Quotes

Balance in large measure is knowing the things that can be changed, putting them in proper perspective, and recognizing the things that will not change."

The heart sometimes leaps forward when the head tells us to be still. When this happens, patience is clearly called for as we seek to find a proper balance between impulse and discretion.

Jesus did not come to strike a balance between grace and truth. He brought the full measure of both.

I think it's a bill that puts a high priority on religious freedom and recognizes that as a part of the balance.

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

So now the challenge is to imagine a different world where our wealth is in human relations and the things we do together, and we learn to live in balance with the rest of nature.

I'm a neurotic Jew who doesn't want loans. I can't even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous breakdown.

A bachelor is a guy who leans toward women - but not far enough to lose his balance.

Find a balance between one's responsibility as a white person to confront acts of racism and one's subconscious sense of power and privilege over people of color when reacting to the [racist] event.

It is not balance you need but adaptability.

I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

Balance is what distinguishs a people from a mob.

There's no point in getting frustrated at yourself. Just be truthful.

Spiritual balance is how you deal with opposition, outside of yourself and within.

I can't sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children.

I'm a woman trying to balance family, work and friends like so many others out there.

To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful.

Life has a balance and natural order. I'm not fighting the flow anymore. My career right now is very up. It's happening naturally and it's happening well.

Find the balance between the calories you take in and the ones you burn up.

Teach girls to read and to work at something where they can bring home money - and the entire balance of power shifts.

War's balance will prevail.

It's all the same - no good without evil, no balance...no maat. If we lose one, we lose the other. It's just life, that's all.

The runner stopped dead, lost his balance, froze in one of those violent attitudes in which the photographers petrify living reality.

Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.

I tried to always include my children in everything that I did. I traveled with them, I brought them with me to work, I tried to balance it between work and being a mother as best as I could.

We have a balance of $ .32 in the bank . . . Which makes us four-and-a-half trillion dollars richer than the federal government.

Most people ask of their friends that they understand them, but, on balance, I think I prefer a friend who understands himself.

Everyone has a need to do penance. It's a basic need, like washing. It's about harmony, an absolutely essential inner balance. It's the balance we call morality.

​Life is a series of highs and lows. The trick is to tip the balance in your favor by following your heart and taking some risks.

Balance is balancing.

Real frontier-busting math explores new worlds . . . . If you can communicate that experience, somewhere between math and uncertainty, life experience provides the balance.

Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good heart and sound mind to find the right balance between the two.

It's kind of hard to balance school and work sometimes. But sometimes, like, if I'm going to the White House and I'm in there doing a tour and stuff, that's like school.

Every good thing you do changes the balance in the universe.

If people do not revere the Law of Nature It will adversely affect them. If they accept It with knowledge and reverence, It will accommodate them with balance and harmony.

I always feel like every film takes the franchise and hangs it in the balance.

Women tend to take care of men a lot, but I like a guy who balances that out and takes care of me, too.

We need to push our border across the Mediterranean - hoping that Libya can find a new balance as soon as possible.

We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.

Time seems to slow down for me when I focus on staying in the moment and that helps me maintain a sense of balance.

On abortion: We are talking about ambiguous issues of a complicated kind where you have to balance conflicting interests and concerns.

A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.

In True Balance Sonia Choquette takes the mystery out of staying balanced, both physically and spiritually. She offers a clear explanation of our chakras and how they influence our daily lives.

How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.

I enjoy doing martial arts films, but I like the straight stuff, too. I'd like to go back and do some Shakespeare, and maybe knock out a play or two. It's all about keeping balance.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite, and are expressed simultaneously. Sequentially they are repeated in reverse, the reaction becoming the action and the action the reaction.

I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.

Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.