Quotes About Balance

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they work better; they live better.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.

I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.

For better to come, good must stand aside.

His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.

The infantile dream-state of the mass man is so unrealistic that he never thinks to ask who is paying for this paradise. The balancing of accounts is left to a higher political or social authority, which welcomes the task, for its power is thereby increased; and the more power it has, the weaker and more helpless the individual becomes.

In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.

Life calls, not for perfection, but for completeness.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

When thinking leads to the unthinkable, it is time to return to simple life. What thinking cannot solve, life solves, and what action never decides is reserved for thinking.

There is no good that cannot produce evil and no evil that cannot produce good.

I am not altogether pessimistic about neurosis. In many cases we have to say, "Thank heaven he could make up his mind to be neurotic." Neurosis is really an attempt at self-cure…It is an attempt of the self-regulating psychic system to restore the balance, in no way different from the function of dreams – only rather more forceful and drastic.

we recognize all things by the existence of their opposite—day as distinguishable from night, failure from success, peace from war." We could add "safety from hazard." When

It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.

Having your head in the clouds, even for just a few minutes each day, is good for your mind, good for your body, and good for your soul.

Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.