Quotes About Balance

The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.

In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced success with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.

The wise man believes profoundly in silence, the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit. The man who preserves his selfhood ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence - not a leaf, as it were, astir on the tree, not a ripple upon the surface of the shinning pool - his, in the mind of the unlettered sage, is the ideal attitude and conduct of life. Silence is the cornerstone of character.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportions.

Perhaps it would be sweet to be, in turn, both victim and executioner.

There, there is nothing else but grace and measure,Richness, quietness and pleasure.

There are in every man, at every hour, two simultaneous postulations, one towards God, the other towards Satan.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

To ask what is the impact of developing groundwater in arid lands is simply to seek the price that must be paid for this unique human knack of influencing the availability of water. The answer is this: man builds water-rich societies in arid lands by living out of balance with his water supplies. He uses water faster than it can be replaced by rain. When this fact becomes obvious, people call it the groundwater problem.

I always remind myself of all the things I should note if I am to be a good person, one sound and balanced. One night . . . I reminded myself that 22 species of flowers were blooming in my backyard. . . . that fact helped a great deal.

The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on the just, because The unjust hath the just's umbrella.

If not controlled, work will flow to the competent man until he submerges.

There were only two things that mattered in his life: the union and his family. Believe it or not, as strong as he was for the union, his wife and his daughter and his son came first to him.

How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.

To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

One of my former teachers repeatedly reminded us that an imbalance in theology was the same as doctrinal insanity.

By wholesome I mean balanced. There is nothing more devastating to the practice of spiritual living than an imbalance.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.