Quotes About Balance

Moderates are not moderate through weakness but through strength.

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

Justice without strength is helpless, strength without justice is tyrannical…. Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.

Man is neither angel nor beast; and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the beast.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same.

What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.

If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.

Now here's the thing about being a little off-center; you're never sure if you're a bona fide loon or if you have insight that other people don't have.You have to navigate through life using a kind of psychic gyroscope to keep from falling too far one way or another, and you feel a peculiar kinship with other people who are also a little bit off-center.

Well, I enjoy reality as much as the next man. It's just that in my case, fortunately, reality includes a good stiff belt every now and then.

Like eating too much marzipan, a little goes a long way where ideas are concerned. And more does not always mean better.

We laughed about a lot of things that we should have taken more seriously. But no matter how serious or dangerous the situation was, we always found something to laugh about later on. It always seemed better to laugh than to cry. We had to laugh to keep from crying.

There are far too many people out there who take themselves too seriously.

All parents must reconcile their fantasies for their children with the choices their kids actually make.

Death, in the form of necromantic magic, acts as a counterbalance to Life. It is an unavoidable force that breeds despair in mortal hearts and pushes everything toward a state of entropic decay and eventual oblivion.

working hard keeps you from going crazy

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.

Because of their success, they find themselves faced with so many opportunities that it takes a conscious effort on their part to keep from heading off in the wrong direction.