Quotes About Balance

Contentment consisteth not in heaping more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.

If it were possible to treat everyone well, then anybody would do that. But sometimes we have to decide on an order. Liking everyone the same means that you don't like any one person. At least that's what I think.

You know, Youko. When you don't know which choice is the best, then you should choose the path you ought to take, rather than the one you wish for. You're going to regret the path not taken. But regrets being more or less equal, better the one where the regret is even a bit less." - Rakushun.

All the universe has got a sex-like quality about it. It is seminal and productive at the same time. The seeds of words produce ideas. The seeds of ideas produce goodness knows what. The whole blessed thing is male and female at one and the same time. In fact, the whole thing is pure sex. We've taken one aspect of it and called it sex, or made it self-conscious and called it Sex. But that was our own fault, wasn't it? – Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

If there is a bibliographic equivalent of alcoholism, many librarians have it.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

Science is all very well when a man can afford to make it his hobby, but I have come to the conclusion that a man has no right to ride a hobby while his family have to work to make a living." "But

There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.

Love without knowledge is demonic.

With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.

Everything existing in the world "falls to the bottom." The "bottom" for any part of the Universe is its nearest "stability," and this stability is the point toward which all the lines of force from all directions converge.

Men have their minds and women their feelings more highly developed. Either alone can give nothing. Think what you feel and feel what you think. Fusion of the two produces another force.

Until you stop being governed by your emotions you cannot be impartial.

Only he will deserve the name of "man" and can count upon anything prepared for them from above, who has already acquired corresponding data for being able to preserve intact both the wolf and the sheep entrusted to his care.

You have dogs within you, you must become their master. If you find the animal that is within you, you can understand it. It is not a matter of scolding the animal, it is part of you. You must get to know its nature: it barks, it attacks; but if you understand it, and love it, it will be pleased to serve you, it will not have to be on the defensive, because it will feel loved, understood and it will love you.

The cause of every anomaly can be found in woman.