Quotes About Balance

Like water, be gentle and strong. Be gentle enough to follow the natural paths of the earth and strong enough to rise up and reshape the world

If stimulation is used when it will not help you achieve something of value, it is an uncomplementary stress. I consider coffee drinking an uncomplementary stress. I view it as a form of credit, similar to shopping with a credit card. You get energy now that you don't actually have, but you pay for it later—when the "bill," or fatigue, hits.

The Thrive Diet is not about perfection or idealism, it's about progress.

It was the voice of someone who had known both amazing joy and intense pain, and who knew that ultimately you can't really have one without the other.

and writhe in tension, pulling you in two directions, leaving you in di-stress.

Fasting is] a way of making sure we haven't let the rhythms of the everyday put us to sleep, a way to make sure that our habits have not become addictions...

The wise preacher of Ecclesiastes might say, "There is a time for everything—a time to be laid-back and a time to be outraged; a time to be tolerant and a time to stand up and say, 'I'm not going to take this anymore.'" The challenge for all fighters, of course, is to be sure they find out what is now truly worth fighting against, and then to be sure they have something that is truly worth fighting for.

Libertarianism is based in economic theory, as economic science teaches how workable order can arise from the seeming chaos of free actions uncoordinated by a single outside intelligence, and how government intervention is apt to upset that balance.

Messy arrangements far outweigh orderly ones.

But when we examine the universe, there seem to be numerous lost opportunities, since there are many things that are more ordered than they have to be.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp with too much force is to be taken over by power, thus becoming its victim. —Bene Gesserit Axiom

Hatred is as dangerous an emotion as love. The capacity for either one is the capacity for its opposite.

The wild desolation of the place whetted my interest in ecology. It's so much more interesting to study a Ã¢â'¬Â¦ damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

The hawk and the mouse are the same," Warrick said, peering into the future.

It is said that there is nothing firm, nothing balanced, nothing durable in all the universe—that nothing remains in its original state, that each day, each hour, each moment, there is change. —Panoplia Propheticus of the Bene Gesserit O

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp with too much force is to be taken over by power, thus becoming its victim.

The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

His father had always taught him to be careful to consider the whole picture, from the tiniest to the largest elements.

All work and no play makes Matthias a dull mouse.

It was also very sad at times, but does not sadness mingle with joy, to make us grow fully into the creatures we are?

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Here's the thing, everybody loves babies . . . but only in very, VERY small doses.

once you get past the scales and the blindfold, Justice is a woman with a sword.

Some general advice about writing: WRITE MORE, DO OTHER STUFF LESS.