Quotes about Balance

People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.

I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

I may have been on the cover of People and gone on 'David Letterman' and 'Arsenio Hall' because they had young audiences I wanted to talk to. But at the same time, I always did serious books or taught seminars.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

And there's such a thing as being oversperitial; we must have something beside Gospel i' this world. Look at the canals, an' th' aqueduc's, an' th' coal-pit engines, and Arkwright's mills there at Cromford; a man must learn summat beside Gospel to make them things, I reckon. But t' hear some o' them preachers, you'd think as a man must be doing nothing all's life but shutting's eyes and looking what's agoing on inside him.

a horsewhipping is not likely to be paid for with sugar-plums.

She did not want to deck herself with knowledge—to wear it loose from the nerves and blood that fed her action

But as to listening to what one lawyer says without asking another—I wonder at a man o' your cleverness, Mr. Dill. It's well known there's always two sides, if no more; else who'd go to law, I should like to know?

There is a fine line between loneliness and independence.

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.