Quotes About Balance

La imperfección busca la perfección. En cambio, la perfección en si misma es estéril.

But Alfanhui didn't want to abuse the rosemary, because one shouldn't tell a lot in one day, since the stories lose their strength.

Take your time, now,' said Mr. Blood. 'I never knew speed made by overhaste.

if you become angry over little things, the big issues are never even addressed. As

I feel as if I am the eye of my own storm, still, like the mermaid, at the center of my own chaos.

Society suffers when any of the pillars weakens or strengthens overly relative to the others. Too weak the markets and society becomes unproductive, too weak a democratic community and society tends toward crony capitalism, too weak the state and society turns fearful and apathetic. Conversely, too much market and society becomes inequitable, too much community and society becomes static, and too much state and society becomes authoritarian. A balance is essential!

The personal checks and balances that most of us bring to bear when we are employed in other activities - we ask ourselves if we are producing a socially useful product - operate less well in finance because, with few exceptions, making money is the Raison d'être (reason for existence) for the financier

real difficulty comes when we are doing something that we don't want to be doing. For example, if we must work when we want to be home, or if we are staying home when it is driving us crazy, then our parenting will tend to be influenced by guilt, resentment, and a whole range of other negative emotions. We need to make our best choices at each moment. We can't always have what we feel would be ideal, but we can actively do the best with the options as we see them.

Be aware of what you allow to fuel your thoughts, the energy you take in and what emotions you put out and how it effects you and others..

For should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should he strengthen his rear, he will weaken his van; should he strengthen his left, he will weaken his right; should he strengthen his right, he will weaken his left. If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.

Let your rapidity be that of the wind, your compactness that of the forest.

When man chooses to develop his innate power of communication with nature and therefore hear the voice, all will be right with the world – we will be as one. What you have been able to do with your Modoc is what man has been seeking for a long time. To communicate with nature through animals.

You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for anybody's damn sermon,

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

The best boss is the one who bosses the least.

The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan. —CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanities.

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.

Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness.

Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying-out of gardens.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.