Balance Quotes

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There's a balance in my life, there's reality and there's th

There's a balance in my life, there's reality and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.

Olivia Newton-John

Life Reality Right Balance

It was all balance. But then, she already knew that from sur

It was all balance. But then, she already knew that from surfing.

Life Balance Surfing

My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. Th

My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.

Ellen DeGeneres

Life Humor Funny Balance

First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic

First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and the world. It looks at things objectively (). It does not falsely lull you into living in a fool's paradise, nor does it frighten and agonize you with all kinds of imaginary fears and sins. It tells you exactly and objectively what you are and what the world around you is, and shows you the way to perfect freedom, peace, tranquility and happiness.

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The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is d

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Inspirational Balance

Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr

Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of the internal rivals - is optimal for brains. ... Some balance of the emotional and rational systems is needed, and that balance may already be optimized by natural selection in human brains.

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

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

Olen Steinhauer

Life Truth Advice Effort Balance The Tourist Olen Steinhauer

How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustmen

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

Beauty World Balance

Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between co

Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives.

William A. Dembski

Science Perfection Intelligent Design Balance Biology Id Optimisation Optimization Stephen Jay Gould

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring ab

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to

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

Truth Satisfaction Inspirational Need Want Balance Finding Yourself Who We Are

Maybe if everything was beautiful, nothing would be.People s

Maybe if everything was beautiful, nothing would be.People saw one thing, they swooned over it. They saw this other thing, they pounded it with sticks.Maybe there had to be variety for life to work. Swoon over everything, you get bored. Beat everything with a stick-boring.

Beauty Balance Boring

There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the

There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection.

Dejan Stojanovic

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We have an internal check and balance system. By design we a

We have an internal check and balance system. By design we are so filled with possibility, opportunity, with greatness that when we live small, within the bottom of our capability, we innately know we should be living greater than that, and it creates a disconnect inside that leads us to feeling empty, unhappy, maybe even depressed.

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We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spi

We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction.

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Your life is a reflection of how effectively you balance pot

Your life is a reflection of how effectively you balance potential and kinetic energy.

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Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether

Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be.

Life Success Learning Pain Motivational Inspirational Purpose Pleasure Evolution System Balance Situation

Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the

Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither up nor down, but upness and downness flow through it while it remains unmoved. You had to be the centre of the seesaw so the pain flowed you, not you. It was very hard. But she could do it!

Terry Pratchett