Quotes About Balance

You can't move so fast that you try to change [a situation] faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.

We [Americans] cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.

There is no such thing as something for nothing.

In nature there are neither rewards or punishments-there are consequences.

If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

Real life is, to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

Each of us does, in effect, strike a series of "deals," or compromises, between the wants and longings of the inner self, and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

The most important thing in marriage is not happiness, but stability.

Moderation in war is imbecility.

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for the instinctual tribes must be satisfied.

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same old dog's rear end every day.

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

Retirement: Twice as much husband, half as much pay.

Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.

I try to learn one new thing a week to balance the one thing I forget a week, but lately I forget three things a week.

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you're no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn't just a means to an end, but a unique event in itself.

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

We don't see many fat men walking on stilts.

The question "Who ought to be boss" is like asking "Who ought to be tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.