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Balance

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth but error still. Truth lies between these extremes.--Richard Cecil
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
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.--Denis Waitley
Expect the best, prepare for the worst and don't be surprised when you get what you deserve.--Lionel Goulet
Few people do business well who do nothing else.--Lord Chesterfield
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors … and it's the shade that defines the light.--Tori Amos
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire--then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.--Robert Fulghum
If you spend too much time warming up, you'll miss the race. If you don't warm up at all, you may not finish the race.--Grand Heidrich
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.--Graham Greene
In Italy under the Borgias they had thirty years of murder, bloodshed, and warfare, and they produced indigestible noodles, boring operas, and the Fiat. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The Swiss bank account, the best cheese in the world, and Heidi.--Gordon Bressack and Charles M. Howell IV
It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune--the ally of patient Time--that holds an even and scrupulous balance.--Joseph Conrad (Lord Jim)
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.--Henry Ward Beecher
Learn to pause ... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.--Doug King
Let us not look not back in anger, or forward with fear, but around in awareness.--James Thurber
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.--Thomas Paine
A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.--Anne Morrow Lindberg
Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it arises out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further developments.--Lewis Mumford ("The Way and the Life" The Conduct of Life)
Only in silence the word,
only in dark the light,
only in dying life:
bright the hawk's flight
on the empty sky.--Ursula K. LeGuin (A Wizard of Earthsea)
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.--Robert Louis Stevenson
The really idle man get nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much farther.--Sir Heneage Ogilvie
Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.--Gary Ryan Blair (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)
The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.--Indian Proverb
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.--Natalie Goldberg
There is no such thing as balance. How I long for that sense of repose after a good day's work. Does anyone have it?--Naomi Thornton (in Working It Out by Ruddick & Daniels)
There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.--Hazrat Inayat Khan
The trick to juggling is determining which balls are made of rubber and which ones are made of glass.--Anonymous
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.--Dolly Parton
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.--Bern Williams
We spend January 1 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
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.--William Arthur Ward
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter…a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.--Henri Matisse (Notes d'un Peintre)
When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.--Kathleen A. Sutton
Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.--Eric Hoffer (The Passionate State of Mind)
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.--Carl Jung
The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.--Paul Valery
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.--James Thurber