#balance

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. ↗

— Plutarch

#balance #friends #just #only #prosperity

Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out. ↗

— Sally Schneider

#course #first #hors #i #like

My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess. ↗

— L'Wren Scott

#excess #key #nothing #theory

The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

#accounts #balance #current #deficit #items

You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to living, you will not be able to die well. You must begin to shift gears, a little at a time. Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value."--Nimit in "Thailand ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#dying-well #living-well #beauty

Darling, I wish I could help you. Try to remember this: to live, you need every experience. Some will come in glory and in beauty, and some in pain and what seems like ugliness. But - they are. Life consists of opposites in balance. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#life #beauty

How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things. ↗

— Elaine Scarry

#beauty #world #beauty

Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#beauty

In short, superheroes balance the forces of light and dark, rage and serenity, and the sacred and the profane within themselves and from it forge an identity that is powerful and purposeful. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#empowerment #inspirational #purpose #superheroes #change

With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#away #balance #balance of power #european #european powers