“You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.”

— Rohinton Mistry

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Canadian writer 1952

Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance

Source: A Fine Balance

“To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."”

Marilyn vos Savant (1946) US American magazine columnist, author and lecturer

Source: As quoted in Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, & Brilliant Remarks (2007) by Karen Weekes, p. 173

“A powerful consumers cooperative movement helps to maintain an equitable balance between prices and profits, and thereby decreases the power of owners and investors.”

Kirby Page (1890–1957) American clergyman

Property (1935)

“The balance you have between drive & patience may be your master key to success.”

David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author

26 October 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/129326605360316416
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“If we want our children to have a balance between their abilities to earn money and show love, it will help if both their parents model that balance.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

page 114.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)

“The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced — between the unpalatable and the inedible.”

Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist

1990s, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)

“No person has ever held all the power. There must be a balance between chaos and order, dark and light. With the Temple magic bound to you, the realms are no longer in balance. The power could change you… and you could change the magic.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them.”

Carl von Clausewitz book On War

Source: On War (1832), Book 1, Chapter 3.
Context: Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.

“I try to maintain a balance between having a vision of the world that many readers do not experience for themselves, trying to give them enough grounding in the world we are all familiar with, so they don't feel that they are completely lost in Faerie.”

Elizabeth Hand (1957) American writer

Strange Horizons interview (2004)

“You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.”

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