Quotes About Balance

question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but because it is difficult to unite them in one person, it is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with.

How does one use power to do good, when wielding power requires one to do evil ?

He who is not your friend will demand your neutrality.

For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer. And

Los hombres rara vez tienen el valor suficiente para ser o extremadamente buenos o extremadamente malos.

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

It is in the nature of things that every time you try to avoid one danger you run into another. Good sense consists in being able to assess the dangers and choose the lesser of various evils.

Thus, it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, religious, and upright, and also to be so; but the mind should remain so balanced that were it needful not to be so, you should be able and know how to change to the contrary.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. —MARK TWAIN

If a glass tabletop was half a centimeter thick, its support and legs precisely doubled or tripled that measure. The iPhone also depended on the exact relation of proportions, so that a sense of rightness enters the user.

Now, what made something work well was in and of itself the core of its aesthetic quality.

At the Bauhaus, Josef Albers wrote a friend for whose apartment he was designing furniture, "An empty room is always the best.

To reduce apparent details was to increase emotional and physical ease.

Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous. Confucius, LúnyÅ­ (Analects), ii. 15

Their fingers seemed to fit together in just the right way- effortlessly clasped,like perfect complements.

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.

Jamie: You're acting like a crazy person, what's going on? Landon: Right now, you're straddling the state line. Jamie: OK... Landon: You're in two places at once.

What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greenest where it's watered..

Marriage, each of them realized intuitively, was about compromise and forgiveness. It was about balance, where one person complemented the other.

Relationship is about forgiveness and compromise. It is about balance where one person complements each other.

People want to believe that every marriage is perfect balance but it isn't. One person always loves more deeply than the other

It was just a normal day, a day like any other. But most of all it was a day in which everything was exactly the way it should be.

You can't see the forest for the trees.