Quotes About Balance

No, you won't. And I won't be enough for you, Amanda. I don't want to be the center of your life. I want to be part of it. I want to be your husband, not your god. People can't always be there for you, no matter how much they want to be. And that includes me.

There's order everywhere: the stars, the seasons, the currents of the ocean, the air that moves over the planet, down to the cells that make up everything.

He's on fire alright, but sometimes that kind of fire can burn churches down.

There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

It is impossible to love and be wise.

Había tanto que leer, por una parte, y tanta salud que aspirar del aire nuevo y vivificador!

They were playing the music, minds, bodies, and souls stretched near to the limit, but it was also true that the music was playing them. A balancing act of excruciating fragility, but to Claude sweet beyond words, sweet beyond imagining.

Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck. Darwi Odrade - Chapterhouse: Dune

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive.

This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion, Scytale murmured.

If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

Emotions are the curse of logic.

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Education helps but it's never enough. You also must run.

Too Much Knowledge never makes for Simple Decisions.

The terrain enforced its own rhythms.

A world is supported by four things... the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing...without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.

The assumption that humans exist within an essentially impermanent universe, taken as an operational precept, demands that the intellect become a totally aware balancing instrument.

In politics, the tripod is the most unstable of all structures.

The knife is more dangerous than the hand and the knife can be in either hand.