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Quotes About Balance

Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.
~ Matthieu Ricard
Absorption in worldly affairs breeds darkness in the heart, and absorption in the affairs of the next world enkindles light in the heart
~ Uthman ibn Affan
Sometimes I feel I am everything, I call that Love. Sometimes I feel I am nothing, I call that Wisdom. Between Love and Wisdom my life continuously flows.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.
~ Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.
~ Rumi
To speak less is wisdom, to eat less is healthy, and to mingle less with te people is safe and serene.
~ Umar
It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness.
~ Isamu Noguchi
Tai chi does not mean oriental wisdom or something exotic. It is the wisdom of your own senses, your own mind and body together as one process.
~ Chungliang Al Huang
When I look inside and see that I'm nothing, that's wisdom. When I look outside and see that I'm everything, that's love. And between these two, my life turns.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
~ C.G. Jung
The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
~ Jack Kerouac
A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.
~ Primo Levi
Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
~ Democritus
The power chakra is the navel center. The center of balance is the heart chakra; it's the center of our being. The third eye is the center of wisdom, the Agni chakra.
~ Frederick Lenz
It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over head - it is the unique intersection of both.
~ David Caruso
If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
~ Carl Sagan
An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.
~ John Junor
First to become capable of love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.
~ Hugo von Hofmannsthal
For knowledge, add something every day. For wisdom....subtract.
~ Laozi
Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little then to break
~ Jane Wells
Whisky making is an act of cooperation between the blessings of nature and the wisdom of man.
~ Masataka Taketsuru
The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
~ John Maynard Keynes
Master your words. Master your thoughts. Never allow your body to do harm. Follow these three roads with purity And you will find yourself upon the one way, The way of wisdom.
~ Gautama Buddha
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
~ Herodotus