Quotes About Balance

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched.

Rigid justice is the greatest injustice.

Nuestros pensamientos y entendimiento fueron asignados para moderar, suavizar, enfriar y apartar nuestras pasiones cuando estas se desbordan, para gobernarlas y dominarlas. Pero, en lugar de eso, se sujetan a nuestras emociones, convirtiéndose en algo parecido al combustible para nuestros malos deseos, y haciéndoles arder más.

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes

We can only learn so much and live.

I will walk on eggs.

There's not a string attuned to mirthBut has its chord in melancholy.

Being natural means to exist spontaneously without having to take any action. . . . By taking no action is not meant folding one's arms and closing one's mouth. If we simply let everything act by itself, it will be contented with its nature and destiny. (12)

revised them to suit Zen purposes.

Symmetrical art is a closed form, perfect in itself and frozen in completeness; asymmetrical art invites the observer in, to expand his imagination and to become part of the process of creation.

The right pace, neither slow nor fast, cannot get into the hand unless it comes from the heart.

Perhaps the most noticeable principle of Zen art is its asymmetry; we search in vain for straight lines, even numbers, round circles. Furthermore, nothing ever seems to be centered. Our first impulse is to go into the work and straighten things up—which is precisely the effect the artist intended.

There is nothing difficult about the Great Way But, avoid choosing! Only when you neither love nor hate, Does it appear in all clarity. Do not be anti- or pro- anything. The conflict of longing and loathing, This is the disease of the mind. Not knowing the profound meaning of things, We disturb our (original) peace of mind to no purpose.

Life isn't all beer and skittles; but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.

Health is the requisite after morality

In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.

For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish piecemeal.

I have lived temperately . . . I double the doctors recommendation of a glass and a half of wine a day and even treble it with a friend.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness.

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others