Quotes About Balance

Unplanned work is what prevents you from doing it. Like matter and antimatter, in the presence of unplanned work, all planned work ignites with incandescent fury, incinerating everything around it. Like Phoenix.

Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts until some semblance of common sense and common purpose returns to the public mind.

I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.

Our marriage has always been a 50-50 proposition — with the possible exception of closet space.

Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

And she didn't want great secrets of necromancy, or any other sort of magic. She just wanted—had always wanted—a good book to read. Being chased by hellhounds and blowing things up were comparatively unimportant parts of the job.

And here in the Library, even if our outer layer is order, we have an inner heart of chaos. We read too much for it to be anything else.

He imagined the fervid hum of the city above them, the constant buzz and surge of business and activity, and Irene drifting through it like a single butterfly with a pack of wolves on her tail. The image lacked poetic balance, and he frowned. 'What chases butterflies?' he asked. Evariste glanced at him sidelong. 'What the hell does that have to do with anything?' he asked. Kai looked back in disdain. 'Poetic metaphor,' he said.

My life isn't all running around and screaming, you know.

When I'm working I'm wishing I was doing nothing and when I'm doing nothing I'm wondering if I should be working. I hurry through what I've got to do and then, when I've got nothing to do, I keep glancing at the clock, wishing it was time to go out. Then, when I'm out, I'm wondering how long it will be before I'm back home.

Big enough to matter, small enough to lead, good fit with your crown jewels. If

It is the problem of accurately measuring the relative power of nations which goes far to explain why wars occur. War is a dispute about the measurement of power. War marks the choice of a new set of weights and measures.

There is a delicate balance between shielding people and encouraging them, and the USA perhaps went too far in one direction and Australia in the other. The Soviet Union, born in 1917 and influenced a little by the exciting Australian and New Zealand experiments, would eventually show how the umbrella, if too big and cumbersome, exposed people far more than it protected them.

the struggle between authenticity and accessibility

A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work.

can any of this be sustainable?

But if it so happens that you find good food and drink, partake of them gladly and sufficiently but not to excess, for men of worth say that one should not live in order to eat, but one should eat in order to live, for no one should eat so much that he is too full, nor drink so much that he is drunk.

Nothing contributes more to peace of soul than having no opinion at all.

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

Man sollte nie so viel zu tun haben, daß man zum zum Nachdenken keine Zeit mehr hat.

Los hombres más sanos, más hermosos y mejor proporcionados son quienes están de acuerdo con todo. En cuanto se padece un defecto se tiene una opinión propia.

So long as we are in conflict with our body, we cannot find peace of mind.

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

From an objective standpoint, life according to fashion consists of a balancing of destruction and upbuilding; its content acquires characteristics by destruction of an earlier form; it possesses a peculiar uniformity, in which the satisfying of the love of destruction and of the demand for positive elements can no longer be separated from each other.