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Quotes About Balance

Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye.
~ Ishmael
When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
~ Leonard Cohen
He is a pandit (man of knowledge) who speaks what is suitable to the occasion, who renders loving service according to his ability, and who knows the limits of his anger.
~ Chanakya
The secret is to always let the other man have your way.
~ Clay Pell
A man with a weak Masculine is especially prone to despise and fear these qualities and may attempt to suppress the more destructive elements of the Feminine force in his partner.
~ David Deida
As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it.
~ Eric Gill
That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.
~ Eric Gill
Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
~ Malcolm X
In ancient times men fought with their right arms and defended with their left arms... ...the right side of the body was considered masculine and the left side feminine.
~ Manly Hall
What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body.
~ Rene Dubos
There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.
~ C. S. Lewis
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wherever flowers cannot be reared, there man cannot live.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man.
~ Phillips Brooks
What destroys one man preserves another.
~ Pierre Corneille
In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu; Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se.]
~ Plautus
If a man owns land, the land owns him.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal.
~ Rene Char