Quotes About Balance

The tablets mean nothing," Ao said, addressing all of his gods, no matter where they were. "I kept them to remind you that I created gods to serve the Balance, not to twist it to your own ends. But this point was lost on you. You saw the tablets as a set of rules by which to play juvenile games of prestige and pomp! Then, when the rules became inconvenient, you stole them Ã¢â'¬Â¦

People and land, they're the same, his father used to say. Neglect one and the other suffers eventually.

La gente y la tierra son lo mismo - solia decir su padre- si desatiendes una de las dos, la otra acaba pagando las consecuencias

What you give away in life always comes back to you in one way or other.

We co-existed in peaceful detachment

If there are loud and angry people on only one side of a debate, it probably means the other side simply does not have a spokesperson.

Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

Heaven desires the earth, and the earth is lost without heaven. Make your life a marriage of the two, as lovers that never part, and you will find peace.

So the darkness is there for the sake of light. Evil exists so that good might also be. Pain exists to make room for healing.

A life of purpose is a delicate balancing act of body and soul, heaven and earth. It requires two feet firmly upon the ground and a clear head high up in the air.

The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity.

when a man has little time, he must take care to maintain his calm. We must act as if we had eternity before us.

Humbësit ashtu si autodidaktët kanë gjithnjë njohuri më të mëdha se fitimtarët. Nëse dëshiron të jesh fitimtar, duhet të dish vetëm një gjë e të mos humbasësh kohën për të mësuar gjithçka. Kënaqësia e erudicionit është vetëm për humbësit. Sa më shumë të dish, aq më keq mund të të shkojnë gjërat.

The maximum of confusion achieved with the maximum of order: it seems a sublime calculation.

I like the notion of stubborn incuriosity. To cultivate a stubborn incuriosity, you have to limit yourself to certain areas of knowledge. You cannot be totally greedy. You have to oblige yourself not to learn everything. Or else you will learn nothing.

Terrorism is not the enemy of the great systems; on the contrary, it is their natural counterweight, accepted, programmed.

The fact that for tens of thousands of years humanity has used warfare as a solution for states of disequilibrium has no more demonstrable value than the fact that in the same period humanity learned to resolve states of psychological imbalance by using alcohol or other equally devastating substances.

There's a difference between the 'moderate' overwhelm of a great bookshop and the infinite overwhelm of the Internet.

I followed the curve that rose from the capitals of the semicircle of columns and ran along the ribs of the vault toward the key, mirroring the mystery of the ogive, that supreme static hypocrisy which rests on an absence, making the columns believe that they are thrusting the great ribs upward and the ribs believe that they are holding the columns down, the vault being both all and noting, at once cause and effect.

it is always better when the person who frightens us is also afraid of us.

Estudio. —¿Va a la universidad o estudia? —Aunque le parezca extraño, una cosa no está reñida con la otra.

And he answered that the beauty of the cosmos derives not only from unity in variety, but also from variety in unity.

Çünkü güzelliÄŸi yaratan, üç ÅŸeyin uyumudur: her ÅŸeyden önce, bütünlük ya da yetkinlik - bu yüzden yetkin olmayan ÅŸeylere çirkin deriz; sonra gerekli orant? ya da uyum; son olarak da ayd?nl?k ve ???k; gerçekten de rengi aç?k seçik olan nesnelere güzel deriz.

the beauty of the cosmos derives not only from unity in variety, but also from variety in unity.