Quotes about Balance

The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.

Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So 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.

Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.

I'm not denying the women are foolish: God almighty made 'em to match the men.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.