Quotes About Balance

I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons.

If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.

Kebudayaan yang benar dilahirkan di alam, sederhana, rendah hati, dan murni

I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the over development of the present age.

bukannya teknik bertanam yang merupakan faktor yang paling penting, melainkan lebih kepada pikiran petaninya.

Kenyataanya ilmu diet barat menciptakan masalah-masalah yang jauh lebih banyak daripada memecahkannya

Orang sekarang ini makan dengan pikiran mereka, tidak dengan tubuh mereka

You were the leaves, basking in the sunlight. I was the root, growing in the darkness ~Danzo

Peace is actually a troublesome beast. (...) It is hard to produce, but maintaining it is hard to impossible.

The moment people come to know love, they run the risk of carrying hate

half-right, half-wrong.

Tu ne trouveras pas de lumière sans ombres, elles sont indissociable comme l'amour et la haine

There's no advantage to hurrying through life

But the funniest one they showed us was about the need for leisure time. I was sitting next to women who work until one in the morning every day. And here they were telling us that when a person does not get any rest, he becomes a destructive member of society because of the elevated risk of accidents. The women were laughing so hard they fell off their chairs.

The truth of the matter is that the stronger or more capable the body is, the weaker or lazier the mind can afford to be.

And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can't have one without the other. Of course, they come in different degrees and quantities. But there is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you're in.

Generally speaking, the person initiating the conversation can expect to do 90% of the talking for the first two minutes. After that, the conversation (if you've reached the hook point) will be much closer to 50/50 talking.

There are two sides to every coin, just as there are two sides to every situation in life. Therefore, you have the option of choosing to see the negative or choosing to see the positive.

you have a drink, hold it at your waist (not your chest) ?       Stand up straight, keep your shoulders and

Nature is the length of the rectangle, nurture the width. There can be no rectangle without both.

First, I need to convince you that human progress has, on balance, been a good thing, and that, despite the constant temptation to moan, the world is as good a place to live as it has ever been for the average human being – even now in a deep recession.

Imports are Christmas morning; exports are January's MasterCard bill. P.J. O'ROURKE

Choose equality.

Women were created from the rib of man to be beside him, not from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled by him, but from under his arm to be protected by him, near to his heart to be loved by him.