Quotes About Balance

Is the future, is the past, all that matters to you? Don't you have just a little bit of room for the present?

Everyone was always in such a rush to shoot forward that they never took the time to look back. Which was a mistake. If you wanted to avoid snags, kinks, knots, and cuts, you had to keep your mind on your line, as the saying went.

We do what we must to earn our place in the community, but we live for the hours at home. For each other, for the children. It will never get me written up in the history books.

Two faces of the same coin. And I am the metal in between.

There are many steps on the continuum between controlling something and doing nothing at all.

I need to find out if I'm as good at peace as I am at war

must do all we can do without destroying our ability to keep doing it.

Maybe knowing about craziness means you don't have to fall for it.

El problema con las monedas es que cuando una cara está boca arriba, la otra está boca abajo

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

As far as the rest of the biosphere is concerned, we could be wiped out and it would adjust, it would get on with the next step in evolution. But

Better to give the man what he wanted and save the objections for the battles worth fighting.

Si sabes lo que es la locura, tal vez no caigas en ella.

Only a wise man could see my people so clearly in so short a time. Only a ruthless one would say it all out loud. Your virtue and your flaw – we need them both.

Because Garden cannot survive one-nineteenth slave and eighteen-nineteenths free. A house divided against itself cannot stand!

we must do all we can do without destroying our ability to keep doing it.

Then you're hired, Lieutenant. I can abide a life outside the IF, but I can't abide life without my wife's stir-fry.

There were not enough women among them, but they began to work out social patterns that would maximize reproduction and keep from having too many males without a hope of mating. Within a generation or two, if babies came in the usual proportions, half male and half female, the normal human pattern of monogamy could be restored.

Only one rabbi dared to expect of us such a perfect balance that we could preserve the law and still forgive the deviation. So, of course, we killed him.

Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as in useful ones.

La felicidad puede depender tan fácilmente de las cosas útiles como de las inútiles.

Only one rabbi dared to expect of us such a perfect balance that we could preserve the law and still forgive the deviation. So, of course, we killed him. —San Angelo, Letters to an Incipient Heretic, trans.

The trick of it was finding a way to let new things into one's life without killing that life to accommodate them.

I don't want to destroy anybody. And I don't want war, either. I want the world to hold together. Is that so bad?