#balance

The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning. ↗

— Peter Høeg

#belief #bridges #certainty #fear #life

Did you ever stand on a street corner in American at five o'clock in the morning? I did. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#atop-an-underwood #early-morning #early-stories-and-other-writings #first-day #jack-kerouac

The infinitesimal seedlings became a forest of trees that grew courteously, correcting the distances between themselves as they shaped themselves to the promptings of available light and moisture, tempering the climate and the temperaments of the Scots, as the driest land became moist and the wettest land became dry, seedlings finding a mean between extremes, and the trees constructing a moderate zone for themselves even into what I would have called tundra, until I understood the fact that Aristotle taught, while walking in a botanic garden, that the middle is fittest to discern the extremes. ("Interim") ↗

— William S. Wilson

#extremes #middle #nature #scotland #trees

Each one of us needs to discover the proper balance between the masculine and feminine energies, between the active and the receptive. (104) ↗

— Ravi Ravindra

#balance #feminine #masculine #receptive #yoga

My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#being #between #city #favourite #garden

You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all. ↗

— Curtis Armstrong

#come #cows #going #gross-out #home

It's so hard to keep everything balanced in life. ↗

— Rosanna Arquette

#everything #hard #keep #life

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't 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. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#action #asks #balance #himself #insane

You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget. ↗

— Tom DeLay

#balanced #balanced budget #budget #democrats #had

We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I'm much more conservative with money than George Bush is. ↗

— Howard Dean

#balanced #budget #bush #conservative #george