Quotes About Balance

Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man.

Never Consume more than you produce.

It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.

There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

Haw was beginning to realize the difference between activity and productivity.

Avoid Believing Things Are Better Than They Really Are When You Are On A Peak, Or Worse Than They Really Are When You Are In A Valley. Make Reality Your Friend.

It Is Natural For Everyone Everywhere To Have Peaks And Valleys At Work And In Life.

Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased—thus do we refute entropy. Stated another way: Just as there are Laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Yet what difference does it make whether the women rule or the rulers are ruled by women? The result is the same." —ARISTOTLE

Helvétius's maxims: "It is worth being wise only so long as one can also be foolhardy.

there were days you felt like waging war, and days when you just needed to go home.

but from an early age she would have known literarily what she at twenty-one discovered empirically: there were days you felt like waging war, and days when you just needed to go home.

The motto over Chaumont's door read, "Se sta bene non se muove," which a later American tenant translated, overly literally, as "If you stand well, stand still.

Make a list of pros and cons and allow it to marinate for a few days. Gradually jettison the entries that equal each other—canceling out multiple arguments that amount to a single one in weight—and endorse the column in which a balance remains.

He argued—in a line for which Jefferson would get the dubious credit, speaking of a different revolution—that "civil wars in the political systems, like bleeding to the human body, or thunderstorms in due season, are salutary.

Entertainment is one of the most important things in people's lives. Without it, they might go off the deep end.

One can accomplish something only so long as one cannot accomplish everything.

Too much beauty undermines the marriage vows, too much knowledge leads to isolation, and too much wealth produces madness.

Nauka obja?nia ?wiat, ale pogodzi? z nim mo?e jedynie sztuka.

Dobro mo?e i bywa w niewielkich dawkach dobre, ale jako do?ywocie jest trucizn?.

Oh, miseria de la existencia humana que oscila eternamente entre la escasez y el exceso!».

Clear spirits destroy karma. Brown spirits build karma.

The ways to find one's way to Enlightenment are many. There is prayer and fasting, and some try that to great effect, but that road is severe, particularly to people with electronic scheduling software and a lot of business lunches as part of the general requirements of their jobs, not to mention drinks after work, and pretty soon fasting, if not prayer, is out the window.