Quotation Explorer - 'Balance'

When you can't escape your mind then God is telling your heart to catch up. Fight for the balance you need. - Shannon L. Alder
If you truly love who you are, travel through this life with conviction, spread joy to others, embrace changes as they happen, then you will find balance in your life. - Annie Morecambe
Maintain a balance life: Nurture your physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. - Lailah Gifty Akita
When The Pyramid falls, the other cities will follow in short order. Nature's balance will be restored and Man will finally return to solitude. - Compton Gage
Striking a balance in life is tough, but trying to strike balance and remain fair in the face of imbalance and oppression is even tougher. - Aisha Mirza
There’s a correlation between the number of digits on a man’s bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The simplest way to enjoy lasting success in life is to strike a balance between your career and family. If one must suffer, never it be your family. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Until you learn how to confidently say NO to so many things, you shall always say YES to so many things. The real summary of a regretful life is a life that failed to balance YES and NO. Yes! A life that failed to recognize when to courageously say NO and when to confidently say YES! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. - Orison Swett Marden
In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner. - Gordon B. Hinckley
When a man's bank balance becomes too small, his woman flees. For a man to do the same, his woman's body or vagina has to do the opposite. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It is not the balance in your check book that makes life count. It is the investment one makes in the lives of others. - John Paul Warren
It is far easier to move mountain than to move science by this one degree. We have the power to move mountain, if we have faith that the mountain can be moved. It is now that our faith is tested. The future of humankind hangs in the balance. - Compton Gage
Life's all about balance. To move on in life you have to strike a balance between your past, present, and your future; you may either be jerked off or left behind. - Richmond Akhigbe
The way to peace, harmony and balance for the planet is through the loving kindness of each individual heart. - Laurence Overmire
We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential. - Ellen Goodman
The ledger of my life can lean heavy with a prolific array of stellar investments, yet in the tallying I would be wise to remember that an investment that is not of God will leave a zero balance on the ledger of my life no matter how many different ways I try to add it up. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Maintain balance in life; not unlike a tire, a life out of balance results in a rough ride and needless wear and tear. - Glenn A. Maltais
A man’s bank balance is the new penis size. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You can’t be criticized for what you don’t try. You can’t lose your balance if you never climb. Give it, Give it all, Give it NOW. - Milan Jed
Marriage is for the mature, not the infantile. The fusion of two different personalities requires emotional balance and control on the part of each person. - Archie Lee
It is not only the unit vote for the Presidency we are talking about, but a whole solar system of governmental power. If it is proposed to change the balance of power of one of the elements of the solar system, it is necessary to consider the others. - John F. Kennedy
Isn't it the task of the Holy Spirit to introduce some madness and intoxication into the world? Why this propensity for balance and safety? Don't we all long for one moment of raw risk, one moment of divine madness? - Ron Rolheiser
There really is no correlation between age and one’s bank balance. I’ve met wealthy boys and broke men. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Challenges come our way when we least expect them; our insecurities, desires, balance, & conscience are tested in the process. - April Mae Monterrosa
Things look and sound better, when we all get the balance of harmony just right. " ~ - Roy Hale
I balance you on the end of my pen.Teetering between loveand letting go. - Jessica Kristie
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
I'm not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now - have we simply swapped one set of restrictions for another? - Sara Sheridan
Painting in watercolor is like walking a tight-rope; one must achieve a perfect balance between what the paint wants to do and what the artist wants to do, or all is lost. - Mary C. Taylor
Parenting requires a delicate balance of letting your child be your spiritual teacher while you maintain the clarity and boundaries to be her Earthly teacher. - Jennifer Griffin
Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous and nothing lacking; and the result is a structure of absolute balance and solid composure. - Muhammad Asad
That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats. - Timothy Garton Ash
It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family. - Philip Green
Two kinds of people have many friends, one with bank balance and other with boldness. - Amit Kalantri
The successful development of science requires a proper balance to be maintained between the method of building up from observations and the method of deducing by pure reasoning from speculative assumptions. - Paul A.M. Dirac
Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor. - Horace Mann
Balance is only meaningful when we choose Love as the center of gravity! - Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. - Eric Hoffer
Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. - Malcolm Gladwell
Don't do it! Stay away from your potential. You'll mess it up, it's potential, leave it. Anyway, it's like your bank balance - you always have a lot less than you think. - Dylan Moran
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. - Helen Keller
Some people must dream broadly and guilelessly, if only to balance those who never dream at all. - Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
if we could tax Americans' cognitive dissonance we could balance the budget. The American people want all kinds of incompatible things, they're human beings, and they want high services, low taxes, and an omnipresent, omniprominent welfare state. - George F. Will
Life is a balance between giving and receiving. The more you give, the more abundance will fill your life with joy. - Debasish Mridha
To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but the very moment the balance of power gets into the hands of second-rate men and women, a decline of that nation is inevitable. - Christian D. Larson
Self-observation helps us to refocus within, to balance ourselves and to be in the present moment.... - Jacqueline Ripstein
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein
It is easier to fall off the ladder once you on top, the balance is being aware of your environment. - Unarine Ramaru
You know, I think it's important to keep a balance in things. Yeah, balance, that's the right word. Cause the guy who wants too much risks losing absolutely everything. Of course, the one who wants too little from life, might not get anything at all. - Thomas Angelo
Always, there are some goodness in bad and something bad in goodness. It is the balance of life. - Pradeepa Pandiyan
Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty. - Deepak Chopra
Skateboarding has taught me two things - that symbolise a meaning of life. How to keep a balance and how to pick yourself up when you've fallen. - Nikki Rowe
The Light yearns for the peaceful balance of the Darkness as much as Darkness seeks the Glory of the Light. - Solange nicole
Don't get hooked on taking identity in illness and diagnosis, there is only a body in balance or a body out of balance. Get your body balanced. - Nina Leavins
Relationship is about forgiveness and compromise. It is about balance where one person complements each other. - Nicholas Sparks
you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment. - H. Ross Perot
Benjy's greatest wish was for a place where the echelon was clear to all, where the powerful cared for the weak and the weak gave their respect without being coerced. He longed for balance, order, right and pleasure. - André Alexis
Ninja mom's understand that life is a balancing act, and in order to keep the balance they have to learn to enjoy the moment! - Anna M. Aquino
The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary. - Wendy Wasserstein
Today, find a point of stillness: brief, but precious slight, but full small, but luminously real. Find a point stillness in the balance of all things between the breathing out and breathing in. - Na'ama Yehuda
I was always taught that book-keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet. - Ashwin Sanghi
The world should have balance between evil and good, positive and negative. If one is missed there isn't balance. - Deyth Banger
Beware! Balance rules the cosmos. It is not concerned with good or bad. You can be struck by misfortune and be buried in grief if that is what it takes to restore the imbalance you have wrought unto the world. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living very good things for anyone to be interested in. - Robert Henri
Find the right balance in life. Man is body... mind... spirit. Give the right amount of attention to each. - Alfred A. Montapert
Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially resisted. Good ideas come with a heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people can handle it. - Hugh Macleod
As we balance and become more and more identified with our spiritual nature, and the ego returns to its designated place, we again are led by the Spirit, but now in a conscious way. - Gerry Boylan
Everything in this world, as well as the world itself, strives for balance and harmony. Electron reaches proton, male tends to female, light replaces darkness, life is balanced by death, and vice versa. And evil on one scale will inevitably lead to the appearance of good on the other. - Alexandr Iscenco
There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life. - Alain de Botton
It's hard to decide matters of the heart, especially when Self-love is rooted in our decisions. You'll need to balance your needs with the people you love in order to avoid hurting others. - Auliq Ice
Accept the fullness in life's balance, which demands that there are positive gifts along with adversity. - Bryant McGill
What’s it like being a writer? Mostly it’s like being a child surrounded by adults. My friends have grown-up careers. They balance spreadsheets, analyze data, negotiate deals. They build things, heal patients, teach children. Meanwhile, I’m over here saying Let’s pretend. - Jennifer Froelich
The balance of this world is not upset by accident. It is not upset by those who blunder accidentally into wrong. Evil comes when those who know better, who have seen the pain they cause, nevertheless cause more pain. - Michael Grant
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible) - Abraham Lincoln
I stumble. I balance. I keep walking. Because I know that at the end of my journey is my dream destination. - Hema Aushat
The only person who lives in the PRESENT is perhaps Daily Wage Earner with no bank balance and security amount, for he doesn't worry about the future. - Anuj Somany
every particle being connected with every other; you can't fart without changing the balance in the universe. It makes living a funny joke with nobody around to laugh. - Philip K. Dick
Balance - the essence of living a life of beauty. - Nikki Rowe
Every path we take in life, we make the decision to pursue a dream. We travel the path of our dreams on a mental path of a narrow bridge; we must stay focused on our goal and not fear, lest we lose our balance of purpose and fall. - Ellen J. Barrier
There has never been a more urgent time than now for you to seek to maximize your potential for achieving greater balance in your life. - Germany Kent
Misogyny… is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who is confronted with it. - Joss Whedon
For a moment, I believed in fate. Such a delicate balance of events had lead to us meeting. It all seemed too much to be a coincidence because I was so delusional in my infatuation. I fell into the trap of my own idea of how things should be. - Ashley Sarel
There is no such thing as worklife balance. I don't know about you, but I only have one life and every moment is about living my values and balancing my priorities--wherever I am.
Ask yourself...If I walk a tight rope,will I fall ,If I shake my balance of thought will it deter me and if I stay focused will I succeed?.~bns - Bluenscottish
Nervousness kill us... because we think we have only one opportunity that is in the Present and we don't think about the future! We loose our balance. - Vikram Roy
Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.
All natural laws retain the balance contained within the scope of that law, no man made law can do this. It is better to understand the natural laws that govern society then to create man made laws that will not work. - R.A.Delmonico
Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad. - Friedrich Hayek
And that is to say, of course, that you can "read" a culture without its literature, without the bother of gathering and holding its ideas, considering their genesis and evolution, and weighing them in the balance with each other. - Richard Mitchell
In every aspect of your life, try to balance the imbalances to make your life more happier and try to imbalance the balanced ones to make your life full of adventures ! - Bhavesh Gandhi
Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life. - Gregory Peck
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance. - Bible
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares. - Peter Ustinov
If the context is lost and merely bits and pieces remain from a scattered existence, only the connection of anchor points may reinstate a distorted mental balance in an upset life story. ("Lost the global story." ) - Erik Pevernagie
Success is subjective. Your dream bank balance could be someone else’s nightmare. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Do not imagine that the good you intend will balance the evil you perform - Norman Mac Donald
The emotion you feel is always about the vibrational variance between where you want to be and where you are. If you're out of balance, there are only two ways to bring yourself into alignment: Either raise your expectation to match your desire -or lower your desire to match your expectation. - Abraham Hicks
Life is a balanced equation,Don't try to disorder the balance - Mohammed Sekouty
There is no work-life balance. We have one life. What's most important is that you be awake for it. - Janice Marturano
[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it. - John R.W. Stott
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. - Amy Bloom
Whenever you take an action,Decide by both your brain and heart in equal proportions .Balance them as far as possible. - Bikash Bhandari
Alchemy is the process of changing lead into gold. Inner alchemy (personal transformation) occurs when we clear our clutter—internal and external—and let go of things that no longer serve us well. This creates balance and space, a place that nurtures contentment, which I believe is true success. - Laurie Buchanan, PhD
Life works with balance. If you give and receive out of giving, you create a balance with life. You serve life, before you expect life to serve you. - Roshan Sharma
As I read the Gospels, I never saw a time when Jesus was a doormat. Jesus found a perfect balance, and for me it has been an ongoing search to find the line to walk between making people happy and giving up too much in order to do so. - Shawn Michaels
Balance hangs in the fingers of Peace - James Butler
Horizontal expansion loses the depth, though excessive depth that only provokes darkness is futile. Therefore a balance between depth and vastness is essential in learning - Priyavrat Thareja
Words to invoke peace & awareness. Words to create freedom and fairness. Words to plant sacred seeds. and sing us back into balance. - Jay Woodman
What I dream of is an art of balance. - Henri Matisse
Even the most ambitious among us know to work from the shadows. We’re not interested in another war between Light and Dark. Not until the power balance has shifted, anyway. That’s where you come in. –Aedus Butler - Zechariah Barrett
Whenever you can’t balance what you see with what you believe you have conflict. - Shannon L. Alder
To live on the edge requires an exceptional ability to balance. - Tarryn Tomlinson
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he is not a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. - Georges Clemenceau
They sat and he drew her into him. Their lips met, sparking an internal firework display. His soft exquisite lips pressed gently against hers. His kiss held the exact right balance between tenderness and a kind of passionate urgency. - Amanda Turner
Courage is not the absence of fear. Only fools have no fear. Rather, courage is the intellectual mastery of fear by understanding the true risks and opportunities of the situation and keeping those things in balance - Julian Assange
I just keep losing. I mean, some people just...are supposed to lose? For balance in the universe? I mean, like, are there just some people on earth who...are supposed to be here just to make it easier for the winners? - Donald Glover
Rich people think long-term. they balance their spending on enjoyment today with investing for freedom tommorow - Hyacil Han
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. - Euripides
Don't hold on too long, but don't let go to soon. Find a balance.
If we want the world to change, the healing of culture and greater balance in nature, it has to start inside the human soul. - Michael Meade
, when asked how to strike a better balance between family, work and self-realisation says: "You need the intention, good scheduling, and you have to be creative. If you don't find time to practice, one of the three is missing. - Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel
When we see a good-looking woman with a not-so-good-looking man, we assume that the man must have a good bank balance. When we see a good-looking man with a not-so-good-looking woman, we assume that she must be good in bed. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A life out of balance is a person that doesn’t believe happiness can be achieved now, or in the future. It is as fleeting as the wind. - Shannon L. Alder
The dogged determination and patience of one person to do what is Right and Necessary may not always win the day or even be noticed, but it will tip the balance just a little in the direction of good. - Terry Pratchett
The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established unless we recognize again that only persons have ends and only persons can work towards them. - Ivan Illich
Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world's balance sheet? - Ryan Lilly
Cultivate balance. After all, there's no such thing as a shadow without the involvement of light. - Erica Alex
Sometimes you have to let go in order to receive; after all the universe naturally acquires balance. - Turcois Ominek
For spiritual vision of our soul, we need to balance between quantitative illusions & qualitative reality of our life. - Aditya Ajmera
How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things. - Elaine Scarry
You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet.. - Libba Bray
There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection. - Dejan Stojanovic
You can balance the unbalance. Once you believe the unbelievable.Then you will always be the best version of yourself. - Cass van Krah
Moments of splendor and moments of gloom they help maintain life’s balance. One thought is key: they all pass... - Joan F. Marques
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless. - Rodney Yee
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. - Plutarch
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