Our Congress passes laws that subsidize corporations, farms, oil companies, airlines, and houses for suburbia, but when they turn their attention to the poor they suddenly become concerned about balancing the budget and cut back on funds for Head Start.
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Quotes tagged ‘Balance’
We cannot prevent equilibrium from producing its effects. We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance.
But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.
It seems to me that in the orbit of our world you are the North Pole, I the South--so much in balance, in agreement--and yet... the whole world lies between.
I balance every sad moment with a happy moment. That kind of helps day to day. It helps me get through.
There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.
Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger th…
Follow your heart but take your brain with you.
Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.
Because you don’t notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.
It is equally important to listen as it is to speak.
A lot of people are kind of depressed. I’m happy some of the time, and some of the time I’m not.
Even though the world doesn’t understand you, it needs you. It needs people like you because you give it balance, you give people hope and you remind people that it’s okay to real, soft and vulnerable. You remind people that it’s okay to be a non-perfect human being.
I needed to embrace what I could do, my part in the balance of life, and stop thinking about what I might not be able to do, stop fearing what lay around the corner.
We have a lot of paradoxical traits, so while we’re very loving and affectionate, we also need our space and independence. We’re hopeless romantics but realists at the same time. Reconciling these contradictions may seem confusing at first, but it maintains balance at the end of the day.
Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope.
This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.
Empaths are born that way, but being empathic is something all, or most, of us can learn. They put others in front of themselves as long as it’s doable. Harmony in any given circumstance is something they strive to create. They are being affected by others’ emotions and energies—so balance is super-…
If he’s lying down, you can either lean over him with your breasts lightly pressed against his chest or sit up and place your hands on his chest for balance.