Quotes About Balance

A political system that is all checks and balances is potentially no more successful than one with no checks, because governments periodically need strong and decisive action.

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

Are there any Fair Trade Laws applicable in the exchange of 'An Eye for an Eye' and a 'Tooth for a Tooth'?

Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.

The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

Seest thou good days? Prepare for evil times. No summer but hath its winter. He never reaped comfort in adversity that sowed not in prosperity.

Use law and physic only for necessity. They that use them otherwise abuse themselves into weak bodies and light purses. They are good remedies, bad businesses, and worse recreations.

do we not love each other enough, or do we love ourselves too much!

Who the hell ever said that plenty was supposed to abolish unhappiness? But what it will do is free our hands to concentrate on unhappiness.

The wisest man will let himself be swayed By others' wisdom and relax in time.

Para conservar la salud y cobrarla si se pierde, conviene alargar en todo y en todas maneras el uso del beber vino, por ser, con moderación, el mejor vehículo del alimento y la más eficaz medicina

Donde hay poca justicia es un peligro tener razón.

Nuestra historia política oscila entre la fragmentación de poder y el caos, por un lado, y su excesiva concentración y sus consecuencias indeseadas, por el otro. No hemos logrado los equilibrios: un grado de desarrollo político en el que el gobierno funcione inserto en esquemas de contención, controles y contrapesos.

La moral siempre se adapta a la vida, y nunca a la inversa

There is no absolute hate or evil. On the contrary hate or evil are always intimately blended with love and goodness. What causes more hate and evil is paradoxically what tends to be done in the name of love and goodness. Hence, in order to reduce hate and evil we need to be aware of love and goodness, rather than hate and evil.

Whatever is going on, whether there is pain or joy, light or darkness, separation or wholeness, accept it! The Sun and the Moon oppose each other on a Full Moon. Just accept it! No need to take the side of the Moon or the side of the Sun. Hold them both, while also being aware of where you are, of your advantage point of observation. Acceptance is the deepest secret of all initiation processes, the most difficult to grasp and the easiest to practice.

On the inner and spiritual level, we are all united even if we do not want it. On the outer and material level, we are all separate, even if we do not want it. The art of healing involves the management of this paradox.

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between her work and her play; her labor and her leisure; her mind and her body; her education and her recreation. She hardly knows which is which. She simply pursues her vision of excellence through whatever she is doing, and leaves others to determine if she is working or playing. To herself, she always appears to be doing both.

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.