Quotes About Balance

One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away!

And how does one basically recognize good development? In that a well-developed man does our senses good: that he is carved from wood which is hard, delicate, and sweet-smelling, all at the same time.

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness

My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strange soundeth the precept: Die at the right time!

The double role of living systems as parts and wholes requires the interplay of two opposite tendencies: an integrative tendency to function as part of a larger whole, and a self-assertive, or self-organizing tendency to preserve individual autonomy (see Chapter 7).

We have become so obsessed with rational knowledge, objectivity, and quantification that we are very insecure in dealing with human values and human experience. - Margaret M. Lock

What is sustained in a sustainable community is not economic growth but the entire web of life on which our longterm survival depends.

Know it or not, man treads between twin abysses a tightrope that has neither beginning nor end.

in man's inward lexicon, the phobias outnumber the philias a thousand to one!

Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make

There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things.

How can one love self without being selfish? How can one love others without losing self? The answer is: By loving both self and neighbor in God. It is His Love that makes us love both self and neighbor rightly.

These people who are always talking, reading, and thinking about sex are like singers who think more about their larynx than about singing. They make that which is subordinate to a higher purpose so all important that the harmony of life is upset.

There are ultimately only two possible adjustments in life: one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. "If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live.

the right to self-preservation could become egotism, and the power of generation could become license

there are only two philosophies of life: one is first the feast, then the headache; the other is first the fast and then the feast.

If that note is made the first note in a new melody, then it will become harmonious.

we suffer from hunger of the spirit while much of the world is suffering from hunger of the body.

What is the difference between work and play?" and he answers: "Work has a purpose, play has none, but there must be time in life for purposeless things, even foolishness.

Is there any way to restore harmony to the world? It can be done only by someone coming in from eternity and stopping the note in its wild flight. But will it still be a false note? The harmony can be destroyed on one condition only. If that note is made the first note in a new melody, then it will become harmonious.

To know one's limit is to know how to sacrifice oneself.

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.

Dejar el campo, irse a la ciudad, hacer carrera universitaria, tener coche, y prosperar hasta lograr tener una casa de campo...