#balance

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing. ↗

— Criss Jami

#composure #contentment #education #education-system #freedom

And Big Night, I think by the end the brothers find that balance, when they touch each other on the shoulder over breakfast and it's understood that what should never have driven them apart almost drove them apart. I think that's a true moment. ↗

— Tony Shalhoub

#apart #balance #big #big night #breakfast

Time is not a means to keep or prove your worth in the world, but a means to experience the richness of all that is. ↗

— Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#happiness-life #inspiration #life-balance #self-improvement #self-worth

Here's a nice image for a life in balance,” she said. “You're juggling these four balls that you've named work, family, friends, spirit. Now, work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it bounces back. The other balls they're made of glass.” “I've dropped a few of those glass balls in my day. Sometimes they chip, sometimes they shatter to pieces. ↗

— James Patterson

#life #family

Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#excess #art

Multilate. Ha Ha Ha,' said Nusswan, avuncular and willing to pretend it was a clever joke. 'Its all relative. At the best of times, democracy is a see saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion. You see, to make a democratic omelette you have to break a few democratic eggs. To fight fascism and other evil forces threatening our country, there is nothing wrong in taking strong measures. Especially when the foreign hand is always interfering to destabilize us. Did you know the CIA is trying to sabotage the Family Planning Programme? ↗

— Rohinton Mistry

#democracy #emergency #xenophobia #family

Already he knew that to overdo a thing is to destroy it. ↗

— Elizabeth Enright

#fragilty #life-lessons #overdoing #simplicity #family

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#cost #crime #give-and-take #good-and-evil #humanity

Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort. ↗

— Olen Steinhauer

#balance #effort #life #olen-steinhauer #the-tourist

We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#almost #amazing #balances #been #checks