Quotes About Balance

God's merits are so transcendent that it is not surprising his faults should be in reasonable proportion.

A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick.

Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.

Life's too short for chess.

Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.

Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.

igualaos, cúmplase el roble, cúmplase el leopardo entre dos robles,..

Liars lie. That's what they do. Lying, and in so doing trying to make me lie to myself. Trying to make me not trust my family. Liars lie by cutting you loose from what you thought was so and persuading you this other thing they are waving in front of you is the new truth. ... Liars want you off balance and alone, so you can drown in self-doubt.

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Magic's the fifth element, along with earth, air, fire, and water, from which everything is composed.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly." from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death

Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal.

Anyone who perceives his shadow and his light simultaneously sees himself from two sides and thus gets in the middle.

Choose your battles wisely. After all, life isn't measured by how many times you stood up to fight. It's not winning battles that makes you happy, but it's how many times you turned away and chose to look into a better direction. Life is too short to spend it on warring. Fight only the most, most, most important ones, let the rest go.

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.

Expenditure rises to meet income.

There's only one issue in the world. It's the reintegration of mind and matter.

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....

There is, after all, a fine line between being pampered and being embalmed.

Every new source from which man has increased his power on earth has been used to diminish the prospects of his successors. All his progress has been made at the expense of damage to his environment which he cannot repair and could not foresee.

Sanity begins with knowing your place.

The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites—day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.