#balance

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

#bicycle #brain #effort #gift #greatest

We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#ask #balance #being #being happy #better

There's a vulnerability in music but you've also got to protect your sacred place and have a place you can still retire to that no one else knows about. So that's a thing I just try to balance. ↗

— Kimbra

#also #balance #else #got #i

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#everything #i #immature #just #me

I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it. ↗

— Aaron Sanchez

#give #give me #good #good place #grew

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#delicate #delicate balance #gain #good #news

Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

#balance #bear #bright #bright lights #comfort

I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#among #around #balance #believed #certainly

The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has. ↗

— Alia Shawkat

#balance #gives #ludicrous #reality #times

People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#artists #balance of power #call #challenge #describe