Quotes About Balance

I really only want to say that we may love a place and still be dangerous to it.

He chose to include the thingsThat in each other are included, the whole,The complicate, the amassing harmony.

A. A violent order is disorder; andB. A great disorder is an order. TheseTwo things are one.

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.

You can't just let nature run wild.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Don't take life so serious. It ain't nohow permanent.

Start slow and taper off.

I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self-contained.

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Peace is always beautiful.

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

Life is a school of probability. In the writings of every man of patient practicality, in the midst of whatever other defects, you will find a careful appreciation of the degrees of likelihood; a steady balancing of them one against another; a disinclination to make things too clear, to overlook the debit side of the account in mere contemplation of the enormousness of the credit.

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

The English constitution, in a word, is framed on the principle of choosing a single sovereign authority, and making it good: the American, upon the principle of having many sovereign authorities, and hoping that their multitude may atone for their inferiority.

That divine rest on the seventh day of creation has made clear (a) that YHWH is not a workaholic, (b) that YHWH is not anxious about the full functioning of creation, and (c) that the well-being of creation does not depend on endless work.

Restitution costs: "He shall restore it in full, and shall add a fifth to it." Restitution costs twenty percent according to Leviticus. Guilt requires not simply equity and an even balance, but gift beyond affront. It requires surplus compensation. Such a rule is both economically shrewd and psychologically sound. Israel is required to move beyond grudging restoration, until it is "pressed down and running over.

Sabbath is the visible acknowledgment that life is not defined by commoditization.

We used to sing the hymn "Take Time to Be Holy." But perhaps we should be singing, "Take time to be human." Or finally, "Take time." Sabbath is taking time … time to be holy … time to be human.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

work as if everything depended upon him and pray as if everything depended upon God.

If I had to pick between knowing just a little about a lot of folks and knowing everything about a few, I'd opt for the long, wide-angle shot, I think.