Quotes About Balance

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Emotions belong as much to the body as to the mind.

Todos los animales mutilan o matan a otros organismos. Ni el agricultor más orgánico puede evitar perjudicar los intereses de otras formas de vida al robar el hábitat de animales salvajes, erradicar insectos con pesticidas naturales y sacrificar plantas para el consumo humano.

Al ser parte del tejido de la naturaleza, constantemente sopesamos nuestros intereses con los de otros organismos, casi siempre a favor de los nuestros.

Even those who believe that humans are more egalitarian than chimpanzees will have to admit that our societies could not possibly function without an acknowledged order.

The initial animosity between divergent approaches can be overcome if we realize that each has something to offer that the other lacks. We may weave them together into a new whole that is stronger than the sum of its parts.

One aspect we might focus on during this moratorium is an alternative to overly cerebral approaches.

Nature affords a universal means of healing and preserving men.

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

Your knowledge belongs to your spirit. Your wealth belongs to your body.

Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.

humility in the face of the unattainable, as well as unease in the face of achievement, are both prerequisites for any mastery in life.

El hombre se hizo para el mundo, y no el mundo para el hombre.

The brook would lose its song if you removed the rocks

The more living patterns there are in a place—a room, a building, or a town—the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire, which is the quality without a name.1 —Christopher Alexander

Conservationists who want to cosset nature like a delicate flower, to protect it from the threat of alien species, are the ethnic cleansers of nature, neutralizing the forces that they should be promoting.

Conservationists, it seems, are dedicated to protecting the weak and vulnerable, the endangered and the abused. Nature generally promotes the strong and the wily, the resilient and versatile.

Riddle: Early to bed and early to rise does what?

These companies manage to balance the need for profits with the overarching vision of providing great results for customers and an inspiring mission for employees.

Our society is much more interested in information than wonder, in noise rather than silence...And I feel that we need a lot more wonder and a lot more silence in our lives

Love and success, always in that order. It's that simple AND that difficult.

Sometimes you are in just the right place.

You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

Technology! How can any man who means to keep his sanity go far in such an art?