This selfishness is not only part of me. It is the most living part.It is somehow transcending rather than by avoiding that selfishness that I can bring poise and balance into my life.

What comes through war is given back through war. All spoils will be retaken, all plunder will be dispersed. All victors will be defeated and every city filled with prey will be sacked in its...

Eliminate the overwhelming cost of phantom wars and fools’ errands, and humankind might begin to balance its books. After all, its only debts are to itself.

They were a deep emerald green, the exact same color as mine, and they glowed with an intensity I had never witnessed before. A slash of silver crossed each one, the sun’s reflection making them...

The most difficult lesson is not being bitter—that balancing you need to do so you don’t become bitter, even as you cease being gullible.

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

Without true celebration discipline is obnoxious.

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...

You can Transform into a Super-Soul! If you align your physical and mental (logical/emotional) self with your core self (or soul being), then you will know your personal path, and find ways to follow it...

The last 10 years I have had to bulk up for roles and I’m naturally skinny, so I have eaten and killed so many chickens! I wouldn’t even want to count. I need to balance...

People who say you are ugly, may be true, because to them, you look like a monster. People who say you are beautiful, may also be true, because to them, you look like an angel.

It’s like doctors can’t save all their patients, but, on balance, Bain under Gov. Romney created well over 100,000 jobs, which is certainly more than has been created in the Obama administration because we’re down...

Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon dioxide emissions from human activity affect the ocean, changing the pH...

DETOX your mind, body, AND your contact list.

The problem with people that ignore people they dislike is they can’t ignore them. Anger carries a person in your mind forever, whether you choose to speak to them or not. Therefore, don’t mistake prosperity...

It’s useless to paint a closed door, in order to change its color. The door needs to be open for both sides to change as same.

It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a...

Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I’m there, it’s like a holiday.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

It sounds extraordinary but it’s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

DBT’s catchphrase of developing a life worth living means you’re not just surviving; rather, you have good reasons for living. I’m also getting better at keeping another dialectic in mind: On the one hand, the...

Dorkdom isn’t something you can choose. It’s something you are. But instead of dividing the world up into dorkside and darkside, I’ve realised that we all have a little bit of dork inside us.

Learning how to balance the needs of individuals with the no-less-real needs of an institution was an important lesson. It’s fine to be on the side of the little guy, but he too will ultimately...

Life is something like a doctor’s prescription: taken alone, and the ingredients might kill you; but properly blended, they bring healing.

The good part about having a mental disorder is having a valid reason for all the stupid things we do because of a damaged prefrontal cortex. However, the best part is seeing someone completely sane...

There is great danger in this Golden Mean, one of whose main objects is to steer clear of shipwreck, Scylla being as fatal as Charybdis. No, this lofty and equable attitude is worse than wrong...

Life and our love for others is a balancing act, I understand then; a dance between our instinct to be safe and hold fast, and our drive to flee, to run – from danger, toward...

Every creative force has an equal power to destroy.

The purpose of life is to live. The meaning of life is whatever you choose. The secret to life is balance in all things…

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...

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

In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge...

You kill by consent, every time you let something… pervert the balance when you have the power to stop it.

For every thorn is just as essential to the longevity of the plant as the blossoms.

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

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.

There is no work-life balance. We have one life. What’s most important is that you be awake for it.

The Conditioned Mind / shuts off magical vision and gnosis / gives up freedom, truth, real choices / loses sight of love, trust, and social coherence / loses touch with organic life, gives way to...

Remember, you can be exalted without a college degree. You can be exalted without being slender and beautiful. You can be exalted without having a successful career. You can be exalted if you are not...

Strive for balance in your life. You are the heart and soul of your business so take care of yourself.

He drew from under the table a sheet of strangely scented yellow-Chinese paper, the brushes, and slab of India ink. In cleanest, severest outline he had traced the Great Wheel with its six spokes, whose...

Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.

Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens

Worry does not keep it from raining tomorrow, but it does keep it from being sunny today.

Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.

Find the portals to harmony and moments of balance on what you love to do and what you choose not to do.

Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don’t keep space in your head for writing, you won’t write even if you have the time.

Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.