Quotes About Balance

Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.

I have decided that the problem with poetic justice is that it never knows when to stop.

Polarities to manage are sets of opposites that can't function well independently. Because the two sides of a polarity are interdependent, you cannot choose one as a "solution" and neglect the other. The objective of the Polarity Management perspective is to get the best of both opposites while avoiding the limits of each.

being "right" is the easy part. Finding the "rightness" within the opposite point of view is the challenge.

One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.

All I have to do is wake up in the morning and go to bed at night, Jazz. Everything else is optional.

opposed to another. Timing don't matter.

It was good to keep those things that kept life in perspective close to hand in case one forgot his reality and became lost, or drugged by riches.

Happiness as a goal is a recipe for disaster.

On the other hand, the fact that some choice is good doesn't necessarily mean that more choice is better.

Knowing what's good enough requires knowing yourself and what you care about. So: Think about occasions in life when you settle, comfortably, for "good enough"; Scrutinize how you choose in those areas; Then apply that strategy more broadly.

Maintain a beneficial ratio of protein to carbohydrate every time you eat. This one simple rule is the foundation for constructing a Zone-favorable diet. And what is that beneficial ratio of protein to carbohydrate? The ideal is about 0.75—that's three grams of protein to every four grams of carbohydrate. That's the ideal. But there's a range of beneficial protein-to-carbohydrate ratios that are still Zone-favorable—between about 0.6 and 1.0 (see

There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.

It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and restore himself in moderation with pleasant food and drink, with scents, with the beauty of green plants, with decoration, music, sports, the theater, and other things of this kind, which anyone can use without injury to another.

Reason is no match for passion.

Reason cannot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

The first step towards true enlightenment is to lighten up on yourself.

What you put out is what you get back.

Don't need what you want. Want what you need.

Opposites attract because they are alike. They are alike in that they are opposites.

What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils?

It would seem that Caesar's recurrent and deep-rooted fault was his concentration in pursuing the objective immediately in front of his eyes to the neglect of his wider object. Strategically he was an alternating Jekyll and Hyde.

When the campaign had opened the scales were heavily weighted and steeply tilted on the side of Antigonus. Rarely has the balance of fortune so dramatically changed. It would seem clear that Antigonus's balance had been upset by the indirect approach which Cassander planned. This dislocated the mental balance of Antigonus, the moral balance of his troops and his subjects, and the physical balance of his military dispositions.

There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed for example that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter.