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"Taste everything, but swallow only what fits."
"It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions."
"With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers."
"Work hard every day at increasing your purity of heart, which consists in appraising things and weighing them in the balance of God's will."
"A good relationship is all about balance and chemistry."
"The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed."
"To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better."
"Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats."
"The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness."
"Gryffindor leads by eighty points to zero, and look at that Firebolt go! Potter’s really putting it through its paces now, see it turn — Chang’s Comet is just no match for it, the Firebolt’s precision-balance is really noticeable in these long —” “JORDAN! ARE YOU BEING PAID TO ADVERTISE FIREBOLTS? GET ON WITH THE COMMENTARY!"
"American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region."
"To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life."
"Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates."
"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."
"Factors in the art of warfare are: First, calculations; second, quantities; third, logistics; fourth, the balance of power; and fifth, the possibility of victory is based on the balance of power."
"Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance."
"Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale."
"When we create peace, and harmony, and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives."
"Life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself. Happiness comes from within. You have the power to change your own mindset so that all the negative, horrible thoughts that try to invade your psyche are replaced with happy, positive, wonderful thoughts."