Quotes About Balance

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Self-command is the main elegance.

We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave actioî

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

There are two laws discrete,Not reconciled—Law for man, and law for thing.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.

We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

So of all the particulars of health and exercise, and fit nutriment, and tonics. Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.

Adopt the pace of nature.

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

In order to enjoy life one must be a master of life—for to be a slave to its inconsistencies can only mean torment; and in order to enjoy the senses one must be master of them. To dominate the actual world you must, like Archimedes, base your fulcrum somewhere beyond.

The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.

Nehru had an unusual capacity – unusual among politicians, at any rate – to view both sides of the question

The report first carefully outlined the arguments for and against linguistic states. It urged a 'balanced approach' which recognized 'linguistic homogeneity as an important factor conducive to administrative convenience and efficiency' yet not 'as an exclusive and binding principle, over-riding all other considerations'. Among these other considerations were, of course, the unity and security of India as a whole.33

How is breath control the means for mind control? M: There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control, because the mind, like breath, is a part of air, because the nature of mobility is common to both, because the place of origin is the same for both, and because when one of them is controlled the other gets controlled.