Quotes About Balance

In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?

I do not understand men. They spend their lives to use their health to make money and then they spend their money to restore their health.

For there is no business of life, no avocation whatever, which will not permit a man, who has an inclination, to give a little time every day to the studies of his youth.

With man gone, will there be hope for gorilla?

One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos.

A real man is capable of controlling himself before he controls his children.

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.

For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.

Man was created to complete the horse.

Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.

Freedom is one of the principal goals of human endeavor, but the best use man can make of his freedom is to place limitations upon it.

The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.

Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.

Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life.

The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.

A man who is right by your side through everything makes you happy. But he can leave your side to make dinner once in a while!

It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.

A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.

Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.

As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.

The most important problem for our world to solve is the inequality of men and women.

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.

When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.