“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.”— Coretta Scott King, en.wikiquote.org
“We cannot prevent equilibrium from producing its effects. We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance.”— Thom Yorke, open.spotify.com
“But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“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.”— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com
“I balance every sad moment with a happy moment. That kind of helps day to day. It helps me get through.”— Paul McCartney, amazon.com
“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.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.com
“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…”— Osho, thepowerofideas.ideapod.com
“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.”— Brandon Sanderson, amazon.com
“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.”— Libba Bray, amazon.com
“A lot of people are kind of depressed. I’m happy some of the time, and some of the time I’m not.”— Elliott Smith, blankonblank.org
“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.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“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.”— Susan May, amazon.com
“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.”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“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.”— James Earl Jones, Mufasa, amazon.com
“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.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“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-…”— Kristine Einang, thoughtcatalog.com
“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.”— Emily Morse, pattiknows.com