Quotes About Balance

Život je naljepši pronalazak prirode, a smrt njena vještina, da što bolje iskoristimo život.

zira bu yürek kadar dengesiz, bu yürek kadar istikrars?z?n? hiç görmemi?sindir.

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

So now, even if I wanted to, I could not become a moderate person. Still, I love life and do not want my high-spirited personality to kill me, as it almost did in my youth. This is one reason that motivated me to discover

Developing self-confidence is always the preliminary to becoming a leader. but don't let it become overconfidence, the first station on the track leading to arrogance

In politics the middle way is none at all.

The judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, as both should be checks upon that.

I agree with you, that in Politicks the Middle Way is none at all.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

I agree with you that in politics the middle way is none at all.

Every project has been found to be no better than committing the lamb to the custody of the wolf, except that one which is called a balance of power.

I say, that Power must never be trusted without a check.

Among innumerable footsteps of divine providence to be found in the works of nature, there is a very remarkable one to be observed in the exact balance that is maintained, between the numbers of men and women; for by this means is provided, that the species never may fail, nor perish, since every male may have its female, and of proportionable age. This equality of males and females is not the effect of chance but divine providence, working for a good end.

Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene Supports the mind supports the body too.

Try a little subtlety in self-defense; it'll help, you'll find out.

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

death, the greatest enemy, would put in an appearance today. Now that he was here he was sure of it. Death seemed to be holding so many souls in the balance of his reaping hand.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

This was in the days when I was making myself over. So difficult it was, to judge just so, to forge the fine discriminations, to maintain a balance--no one could know how difficult. If it had been a work of art I was fashioning they would have applauded my mastery. Perhaps that was my mistake, to do it all in secret, instead of openly, with a flourish. They would have been entertained; they would have forgiven me; Harlequin is always forgiven, always survives.

She was now the center of what surrounded her. All that was not her made space for her.

Something can (has) been said for sobriety but very little.

Hard on the land wears the strong sea and empty grows every bed.

During those years he met his seminars, went & lectured & read, talked with human beings, paid insurance & taxes; but his mind was not on it. his mind was elsewheres in an area where the soul not talks but sings & where foes are attacked with axes.

Therefore the yogic adept achieves his goal not by imploring the Tao to favour him but by learning to accommodate himself to its harmonious workings.