Quotes about Balance
Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
The happiest people are those who have learned to mix play with their work and to bind the two together with enthusiasm.
- Napoleon Hill
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
- Napoleon Hill
Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some day, we shall stop and build a house, when we shall have gone far enough. But we do not have to hasten. The days before us are without end, like the forest.
- Ayn Rand
In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." (Atlas Shrugged)
- Ayn Rand
Only the man who extols the purity of a love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love. But observe that most people are creatures cut in half who keep swinging desperately to one side or to the other.
- Ayn Rand
And you won't have to wake up at four in the morning," she said, a point that I found most compelling.
- Barack Obama
Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends.
- Barack Obama
Because, you know, contrary to the song of a great American master, we're generally not born to run. Most of us are born to run a little bit and go back home.
- Barack Obama
I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
- Barbara Kingsolver