Quotes About Balance

The truth is that good and bad coexist; sour and sweet coexist. They aren't really opposed to each other.

You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.

As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.

All action begins in rest... This is the ultimate truth.

We suffer from the illusion that the faster we run, the more likely we are to grasp happiness. The truth is that the velocity necessary for success rarely exceeds the rate of reflection.

The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.

My personal opinion is that truth, like honesty and non-harmfulness, often are at odds with one another.

When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty.

A cow's heaven is a flower's idea of hell.

Too many kings can ruin an army

The truth is this: the Earth cannot provide enough food and fresh water for 10 billion people, never mind homes, never mind roads, hospitals and schools.

An enlightened person does not ignore things and does not stick to things, not even to the truth.

Most of the time a spark of beauty or truth will start a fire of a song but fires rarely produce goodness on their own ... you need to control them and put them to work.

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

If truth were told, most of us spend longer each day on personal cleanliness than on practical godliness.

Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.

Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes

It is true that the trees are for human use. But these are aesthetic uses as well as commercial uses-uses for the spiritual wealth of all, as well as the material wealth of some.

I'd choose truth over cake but I'd try to find a way to get both to be honest.

It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.