Quotes About Balance

She was right. Peace was the way. She was right. But at the wrong time.

I take life with a slice of lemon a pinch of salt and a martinie shot

Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

The most important aspects of our lives cannot be rushed. We cannot love, think, eat, laugh, or pray in a hurry...When we are in a hurry--which comes from overextension--we find ourselves unable to live with awareness and kindness.

Balance hangs in the fingers of Peace

I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character isn't interesting because it has been done and it's so cliched. A weak male character is interesting: somebody else hasn't done it a hundred times. A strong female character is still interesting to me because it hasn't been done all that much, finding the balance of femininity and strength. [From a 1986 Fangoria interview]

He felt the one experience sharpened the other. He said one feels one has earned a beer after cycling for a couple of hours and then the continued cycling afterwards gives one the satisfying feeling that one is working it off and will soon need another. In this way one can achieve a comfortable rhythm of exercise and relaxation getting neither fitter nor fatter.

Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.

The law may upset reason but reason may never upset the law, or our whole society will shred like an old tatami. The law may be used to confound reason, reason must certainly not be used to overthrow the law.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace.

It is important and vital to not use more than 5% of any given time on rewarding yourself, rewards are good for your psyche but too much leads you in the regret and remorse trap

If your heart is empty then your mind does not matter

Had a gentleman on one of my crews this week, he reminded me of my younger self. I was putting the home back together and he was taking it apart. Karma life does not stop once you are successful instead it reintroduces itself through younger versions of you.

Sex, Sex, Sex, seems like that is everything nowadays, I'm not like that I need healthy stimulation to my mind, capture my mind and my heart will follow.

Master your mind and you will master your life

No matter what political party you are with we all should not take politics with us everywhere we go making everything in life politically charged, We all need to take the politics everywhere idea and throw it so far down in the ocean that not even Jacques Cousteau will be able to find it

with a white bead

In history, as in nature, birth and death are equally balanced."1 —JOHAN HUIZINGA

The lamb and the lion keep a delicate balance, interacting at the margin. If lions were suddenly more swift, they would catch prey that now escape. If lambs suddenly grew wings, lions would starve.

The problem is simple: the world has too many people and not enough resources.

How can you enjoy ice cream if you never eat broccoli?