Quotes About Balance

For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.

When fate has allowed to any man more than one great gift, accident or necessity seems usually to contrive that one shall encumber and impede the other.

For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.

Turtle makes all men equal.

Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow.

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

Remember, as each man and woman is a microcosm reflecting the larger natural world, so healing of the self is also a healing for the world. As above, so below.

Any game where a man 60 can beat a man 30 ain't no game.

The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.

The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And order'd their estate.

Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for she does not have any set proportion.

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you

A wise man can be a fool in love.

What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit

I got plenty of cautions that one or two of these marathons was all a man should do in a lifetime.

The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.

The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The wise are happy; but the good secure.

Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.

I have an amazing wife, Tia, and an amazing son, Cree, and I'm a family man first and they keep me grounded. They're my support system, so they make me stronger.

Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions.

We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man's afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.