Quotes About Balance

To me, excessive silence seems to bode as ill as too much shouting.

Seven matched with seven, at each gate one, Their captains, when the day was done, Left for our Zeus who turned the scale, The brazen tribute in full tale: - All save the horror-burdened pair, Dire children of despair, Who from one sire, one mother, drawing breath, Each with conquering lance in rest Against a true born brother's breast, Found equal lots in death.

You are the king no doubt, but in one respect, at least, I am your equal: the right to reply.

Look, if you think crude, mindless stubbornness such a gift, you've lost your sense of balance

No one with any sense of self-control.

Evil gains work their punishment.

A light tip of the scales can put old bones to rest.

The most powerful man in nothing without self-control and mental discipline.

No quieras imponer tu voluntad en todo. Pues incluso aquello donde la impusiste no te ha acompañado toda tu vida.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly

It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.

My standpoint is armed neutrality.

For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.

How many of us are swept away by what I have come to call an 'active laziness'? It consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

I went back to graduate school because I wanted to avoid being a professional, to try to piece together a life that would let me avoid the tenure race and full-time teaching.

See karma, make dharma

I can live my legacy or just have led a busy life.

I'm basically a really happy person. My life is nuts, but it feels complete.

My children teach me to slow down and enjoy life.

Like I said, TLC has enough of my life. I have to keep some of it for myself.

I am one who believes that the people's views and values are represented by those who they elect in the legislative branch and not unelected federal judges appointed for life.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life, not life to years.

Life is not that complicated.

You must learn to deal with the odd and even in life, as well as in figures.