Quotes About Balance

It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment.

Flaubert said — I assume about the balance between repression and freedom — "Be regular and orderly in your daily life, so you can be violent and original in your work.

failure at one point could throw the momentum out of balance and result in chaos. All in that room were aware

Is it accidental that so many ex-paratroopers from E company became teachers? Perhaps for some men a period of violence and destruction at one time attracts them to look for something creative as a balance in another part of life. We seem also to have a disproportionate number of builders of houses and other things in the group we see at reunions.

In [Eisenhower's] view, 'Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.' In his farewell address as President, he asserted, 'We - you and I, and our government - must avoid plundering for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all ages to come.

Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

For the world seems never to offer anything worthwhile without also providing a dreadful opposite.

Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

Between funny and witty Falls the shadow

If your mind and spirit are directed to your task, everything else will follow. Relax." "But focus," said Hermes. "Relaxation without focus leads to failure." "Focus without relaxation leads to failure just as surely," said Athena. "So concentrate . . ." said Perseus. "Exactly." ". . . but calmly?" "Concentrate calmly. You have it.

I've always believed it right for young people to drink. Not to be alcoholic of course, that is a passive state of being, not a positive action. But it is good to drink to excess.

You cannot control others if you cannot control yourself. Those who most understand their own limitations have the fewest.

For a year she taught him how to look into the hearts and judge the intentions of others. How to imagine and how to reason. How to find the strength to let passions cool before acting. How to make a plan and how to know when a plan needed to be changed or abandoned. How to let the head rule the heart and the heart win the affection of others.

We all know that drugs, alcohol and tobacco are Bad, but work, we are brought up to believe, is Good. As a result the world is full of families who are angry at being abandoned and breadwinners who are even more angry because their hours of labour are not sufficiently appreciated.

taught him how to look into the hearts and judge the intentions of others. How to imagine and how to reason. How to find the strength to let passions cool before acting. How to make a plan and how to know when a plan needed to be changed or abandoned. How to let the head rule the heart and the heart win the affection of others.

Continually trying to look on the bright side interferes with our finding the wisdom that lies in the fruitful darkness. Continually striving upward toward the light means we never grow downward into our own feet, never become firmly rooted on the earth, never explore the darkness within and around us, a darkness without whose existence the light would have no meaning.

Gaia does not use top-down control over the parts that make up the whole. that approach is the least adaptable and least functional of all

Invasive plants—Earth's way of insisting we notice her medicines.

I like physics, but I love cartoons.

In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe---a planet that is not too hot and not too cold; that has liquid water on the surface and where the gravity is just right for human beings and the atmosphere is perfect for them to breathe; where there are mountains and deserts and oceans and islands and forests and trees and birds and plants and animals and insects and people---lots and lots of people. Where there is life. Some of it, possibly, intelligent.

Our future is a race between the growing power of our technology and the wisdom with which we use it. Let's make sure that wisdom wins.

Eventually, however, the star will run out of its hydrogen and other nuclear fuels. Paradoxically, the more fuel a star starts off with, the sooner it runs out. This is because the more massive the star is, the hotter it needs to be to balance its gravitational attraction.

Since we know the universe itself was once very small—perhaps smaller than a proton—this means something quite remarkable. It means the universe itself, in all its mind-boggling vastness and complexity, could simply have popped into existence without violating the known laws of nature. From that moment on, vast amounts of energy were released as space itself expanded—a place to store all the negative energy needed to balance the books.

So the total energy of the universe is zero.