Quotes About Balance

two rules of harmony. #1) Don't sweat the small stuff, and #2) It's all small stuff.

The trick is to be grateful for our good moods and graceful in our low moods—not taking them too seriously.

Regardless of who you are or what you do, however, remember that nothing is more important than your own sense of happiness and inner peace and that of your loved ones. If you're obsessed with getting everything done, you'll never have a sense of well-being!

If we could only live the way we know deep down we should, we would guarantee ourselves a life of richness & fulfillment.

Instinct is no match for reason.

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

God likes to have his free lunch and be it too.

The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even footing.

when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal force, the truth does not necessarily lie midway between them.

we're apt to forget that symmetry is not an obvious quality that every creature must have.

Predators seem beautifully 'designed' to catch prey animals, while the prey animals seem equally beautifully 'designed' to escape them. Whose side is God on?66

Staving off death is a thing that you have to work at. Left to itself -? ?and that is what it is when it dies? ?- the body tends to revert to a state of? equilibrium with its environment.

In terms of the analogy, suppose an ideally balanced crew would consist of four right-handers and four left-handers. Once again assume that the coach, unaware of this fact, selects blindly on 'merit'. Now if the pool of candidates happens to be dominated by right-handers, any individual left-hander will tend to be at an advantage: he is likely to cause any boat in which he finds himself to win, and he will therefore appear to be a good oarsman.

Should we then not expect lions to refrain from killing antelopes, 'for the good of the mammals'? Surely they should hunt birds or reptiles instead

Los depredadores parecen bellamente diseñados para cazar a sus presas, mientras que las presas parecen igual de bellamente diseñadas para escapar de ellos. ¿De qué lado está Dios?.

Discretion can be abused, and rulebooks are important safeguards against that. But the balance has shifted too far in the direction of an obsessive reverence for rules.

In the end all that was left was the heat and the clouds of rain, and insects and birds and animals and vegetation that neither knew nor cared. Humans are only one of many things, and all these things long to live, and the highest form of living is freedom: a man to be a man, a cloud to be a cloud, bamboo to be bamboo. Decades

You see, reason, gentlemen, is a fine thing, that is unquestionable, but reason is only reason and satisfies only man's reasoning capacity, while wanting is a manifestation of the whole of life. Fyodor Dostoevsky

I imagined a world of the future as a barren sameness in which everyone had gorged so much fish that no more remained, & where Science knew absolutely every species and phylum & genus, but no-one knew love because it had disappeared along with the fish

No te niegues a las cosas, y asegúrate de tener siempre algo que no te importe perder. Eso es lo importante.

John Ruskin wrote that composition is the arrangement of unequal things.

Composition is the arrangement of unequal things

Fragment 9: We have as One in us that which is living and dead, waking and sleeping, young and old: because these having transformed are those, and those having transformed are these. The

Your teen is probably trying—and trying hard—to do everything his or her peers are expected to do as they mature and face increasing responsibilities. But it's a daily struggle when the teen has a deficiency in what are called executive skills, the functions of our brains and thought processes that help us regulate our behavior, set goals and meet them, and balance demands and desires, wants, needs, and have-tos.