Quotes About Balance

I really wanted to show that it wasn't all bad in my family. I tried so hard to think of happy times we all had together, times when we had fun, when we laughed. In the interests of balance, I even wanted to be able to describe some instances of kindness and tenderness involving us all. But I just couldn't. I

A star has died. Elsewhere in the cosmos, in an unremarkable corner of one galactic arm, a child was born. Such is the balance of existence.

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.

Sometimes, when I was looking out for my own happiness, I almost forgot you existed.

under the gold standard, a free banking system stands as the protector of an economy's stability and balanced growth... The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit... In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.

Read what gives you delight—at least most of the time—and do so without shame. And even if you are that rare sort of person who is delighted chiefl y by what some people call Great Books, don't make them your steady intellectual diet, any more than you would eat at the most elegant of restaurants every day. It would be too much. Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.

Time equals life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

The best friendships do not require that anyone keep the upper hand.

Modern technology Owes ecology An apology.

The highest goal is not distinctions, but synthesis and harmony.

THERE ARE FOUR TYPES of temperaments. One who is easily angered and easily appeased—his virtue cancels his flaw. One whom it is difficult to anger and difficult to appease—his flaw cancels his virtue. One whom it is difficult to anger and is easily appeased, is pious. One who is easily angered and is difficult to appease, is wicked. —PIRKEI AVOT 5:11

WHY IS IT THAT when there is ice on the streets, everyone walks slowly and carefully out of fear of slipping physically, while in their daily lives, people are not afraid of slipping spiritually? —RABBI ISSER ZALMAN MELTZER (1870–1953)

Occupy a rightful space, neither too much nor too little. Focus neither on your own virtues nor the faults of others.

In Pirkei Avot4 we learn that "the world stands on three things: on the Torah, on the service of God, and upon acts of loving-kindness.

FEAR WITHOUT LOVE—surely there is here a deficiency of love; love without fear—there is nothing here at all. —RABBI YITZCHAK HUTNER (1906–1980)

Equanimity is a quality of being centered in yourself, though at the same time being exquisitely sensitive to the forces that are at work all around, or else you will be vulnerable to being tossed around by the sorts of unexpected waves that crash in on every life.

The pursuit of comforts and pleasure depletes spiritual energy simply because we have only so much energy in our lives. We waste precious energy by running after the shiny apple, and then we have nothing left for higher pursuits.

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.

Jefferson loved order, symmetry, and balance, and there was no place on the mountaintop more orderly, symmetrical, and balanced than the garden,

in so many areas of life, Nature had made it agreeable for man to do what was virtuous.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.