Quotes About Balance

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

His heart runs away with his head.

Moderation in the pursuit of liberty is no virtue;

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

A little work, a little play,To keep us going—and so, good day!A little warmth, a little light,Of love's bestowing—and so, good night!A little fun, to match the sorrowOf each day's growing—and so, good morrow!A little trust that when we dieWe reap our sowing! and so—good-bye!

One can live magnificently in this world, if one knows how to work and how to love, to work for the person one loves and to love one's work."8

Love does not mean the abandonment of justice and right; nor is it a sentimental benevolence which does not have the capacity for holy wrath.

statistical analysis indicates that "virtually fifty percent of Mark's gospel is devoted to presenting Jesus' teaching…. Judged on his own terms, Mark has achieved an entirely appropriate balance between narrative and teaching."79

The result, in Mark's Gospel, is a balanced account of Jesus' mission that in its turn forms the basis for a realistic assessment of what it means to be Jesus' disciple. It is a theology in which rejection and triumph, humiliation and glory, meet in the new scale of values of the Kingdom of God.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

Comprehensive talkers are apt to be tiresome when we are not athirst for information; but, to be quite fair, we must admit that superior reticence is a good deal due to lack of matter. Speech is often barren, but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled nest-egg; and, when it takes to cackling, will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

The legislative branch writes laws, the head of the executive branch takes care that the laws are faithfully executed, at which point the judiciary is perpetually poised to scrutinize the content and application of the laws. Which makes the judiciary the epicenter of constitutional government.

He was one of the fortunate few for whom there simply was no discernible line between work and play, between creation and recreation.

Maintaining the balance of power should be as fundamental to American foreign policy as the Bill of Rights is to domestic policy.

It is good, as I have said, to be neither victim nor victimizer. Unfortunately, it is not possible. What

Being an innkeeper meant walking a fine line between courtesy and tyranny.

Shaman ninjas. Perfect. Now my life was complete.

You can do without sleep or without food, but not without both and sleep wasn't an option.

It taught me that for every period of stress there must be a time of rest and contemplation.

According to Maimonides, one should always walk the King's Road, staying away from the extremes, neither surrendering completely to one's emotions nor rejecting them entirely.

Animals don't destroy each other for pure pleasure. They don't have serial killers. They kill, they don't murder. No, it's not the beast in us that makes us lose our balance. It's the man. Of all the animals, we're the most aggressive

She had only two modes of operation: complete control or complete insanity.

Nadira stared at him for another long moment. "Why can't anything be simple with you, Matias?" "Because life is complicated." She'd exhaled and waved him off. "Go. Practice. Work on achieving harmony. I need to pray.

To exist in peace, we have to sacrifice that violence.