Quotes About Balance

With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, — Necessity and Free Will.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

Fire is the best of servants; but what a master!

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

Order is Truth,—each thing standing on the basis that belongs to it: Order and Falsehood cannot subsist together.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

Not diminishing the Way by the mind, not trying to help the divine by means of the human.

Wisdom should control courtesy. Courtesy should control righteousness. Righteousness should control benevolence. Benevolence should control trustworthiness. Trustworthiness should control wisdom. When these five natures produce and control each other thus in a continuous circle, then no element of personality dominates; they all interact, balancing each other, resulting in completeness of the five natures.

It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.

Thus for some 4,400 years the people living in closest association with honeybees have focused on devising housing arrangements for bees that serve human purposes and have largely ignored what the bees' themselves seek in a home.

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

Contemplation and self-indulgence do not mix.

What So Not used to be a lot more dance-y, and now it's becoming a lot more melodic. Flume has always had that melodic thing, but it's starting to become a bit heavier, so it's just difficult to navigate between the two.

Some days I'm in better control and can navigate my way through stuff, and other days, not so much.

I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether.

The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it.