48 Balance Quotes

In a fast-paced world that often pulls us in numerous directions, finding balance can seem elusive. Yet, it is in this equilibrium that we discover true contentment, productivity, and well-being. To inspire your journey toward a more balanced life, we have curated a top-notch collection of 48 Balance Quotes. Each quote offers a unique perspective on achieving harmony between work and play, ambition and contentment, and the external and internal worlds. Dive in and let these words of wisdom guide you toward a more centered and fulfilling existence.

1. “Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.” - Jelaluddin Rumi

2. “Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.” - Thomas A. Kempis

3. “There is nothing that I so greatly admire as purposefulness. I have an enormous respect for people who know exactly what they are doing and where they are going. Such people are compact and integrated. They have clear edges. They give an impression of invulnerability and balance, and I wish I were one of them.” - Louise Dickinson Rich

4. “Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.” - Margaret Atwood

5. “There is darkness inside all of us, though mine is more dangerous than most. Still, we all have it—that part of our soul that is irreparably damaged by the very trials and tribulations of life. We are what we are because of it, or perhaps in spite of it. Some useit as a shield to hide behind, others as an excuse to do unconscionable things. But, truly, the darkness is simply a piece of the whole, neither good nor evil unless you make it so. Ittook a witch, a war, and a voodoo queen to teach me that.” - Jenna Maclaine

6. “It was all balance. But then, she already knew that from surfing.” - Eve Babitz

7. “Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.” - E. L. Doctorow

8. “There are moments when i wish i could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but i have a feeling that if i did, the joy would be gone as well. So i take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever i can.” - Nicholas Sparks

9. “Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.” - Stephenie Meyer

10. “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.” - Katerina Stoykova Klemer

11. “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

12. “Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort.” - Olen Steinhauer

13. “Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn't I be allowed the other half to howl at the moon and pillage the groins of Europe's great beauties?” - Roman Payne

14. “Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.” - Deepak Chopra

15. “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

16. “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

17. “I want to caution you against the idea that balance has to be a routine that looks the same week in and week out.” - Kevin Thoman

18. “The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.” - Aberjhani

19. “Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.” - K.P. Yohannan

20. “Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

21. “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 (yathābhūtam). 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.” - Walpola Rahula

22. “How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.” - Elaine Scarry

23. “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 through you, not into you. It was very hard. But she could do it!” - Terry Pratchett

24. “My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.” - Ellen DeGeneres

25. “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.” - Steve Maraboli

26. “There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?” - George Eliot

27. “Whatever your passion is - even if you're great at it - it can't be the only thing you do... If you do, you'll be great at that one thing... and bad at everything else... Getting that balance is not easy...” - Eric Berlin

28. “It’s still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we’d be sitting pretty in the middle of the Drowned Cities, shipping marble and steel and copper and getting paid Red Chinese for every kilo. We’d be rich and they’d be dead, if there was such a thing as the Scavenge God, or his scales. And that goes double for the Deepwater priests. They’re all full of it. Nothing balances out.” - Paolo Bacigalupi

29. “People of balance age as gracefully as wines of balance.” - John Jordan Jordan Vineyard Winery

30. “All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego.” - Criss Jami

31. “He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.” - Machado de Assis

32. “The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

33. “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.” - Dean Koontz

34. “We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, we take to smoke divine and wine. If breath of sun does belch its heat, we boil coffee and prepare to eat.” - Roman Payne

35. “So it is with the mind, Nandini. Allow it to be in balance. Avoid extremes: the middle way is better. Neither force the mind too hard into concentration nor let it wander aimlessly. Meditation is to pay attention, to be aware of your breathing, your posture, your feelings, your perceptions, your thoughts, and all that passes through your mind and the mind itself; whatever is going on within you and between you and the universe. Meditation is not just sitting for an hour here or an hour there; meditation is a way of life. It is practiced all the time. There is no separation between meditation and everyday living. When you have ceased to be bound by the past or by the future, when you are fully present in the here and now, then it is meditation.” - Satish Kumar

36. “Life runs in a narrow path to balancing act, convincing tact, and satisfying fact.” - Santosh Kalwar

37. “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.” - Steve Maraboli

38. “Darling, I wish I could help you. Try to remember this: to live, you need every experience. Some will come in glory and in beauty, and some in pain and what seems like ugliness. But - they are. Life consists of opposites in balance.” - Marion Zimmer Bradley

39. “To light a candle is to cast a shadow...” - Ursula K. Le Guin

40. “Your life is a reflection of how effectively you balance potential and kinetic energy.” - Steve Maraboli

41. “Balance is of the essence,' she said. 'That appies to all good, harmonious relationships. Balance in guilt, balance in shame and pangs of conscience.” - Jo Nesbo Headhunters

42. “You have to accept all sides of yourself – there’s no point fighting them – just learn how to handle them, and return to the positive, balanced being you know you can be, once the winds have blown through.” - jay woodman

43. “Silence can bring us into alignment with our thoughts and feelings and help us to hear the quiet spiritual voice of our intuition.” - Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

44. “The act of speaking our intentions aloud shifts them from wishful thinking into action.” - Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

45. “Your relationships with others are always a direct reflection of the relationship you have with yourself.” - Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

46. “Balanced relationships are always based in freedom, not obligation.” - Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

47. “The more you read within a balanced life, the more time you have. Strange but true.” - Mark O'Brien

48. “If you commit to giving more time than you have to spend, you will constantly be running from time debt collectors.” - Elizabeth Grace Saunders