Quotes About Balance

Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.

Very few go astray who comport themselves with restraint.

Life is simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

When anger arises, think of the consequences

15.15 The Master said, "To demand much from oneself personally, and not overmuch from others, will keep ill will at a distance.

The junzi's stance towards the world is this: there is nothing he insists on, nothing he refuses, he simply aligns himself beside right.

The Master is cordial yet stern, awe-inspiring yet not fierce and respectful yet at ease.

An intelligent lady, a little too mature for recklessness, a little too young for caution.

La inteligencia es fría. La emoción es cálida.

Por lo general el exceso de sentimiento prueba que hay falla de desarrollo de la inteligencia

He was a man, in short, who had arranged his own life to live comfortably, selfishly, and well on the personal side, so that he could give generously and impartially of his talens on the official side.

Most of the time, you'll be able to structure your work day around your peak energy times and your family's needs, rather than your employer's policies.

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.

There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.

He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.

If you had to say something definitive about the world in a single sentence what would that sentence be? It would be this: the world has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy.

The world has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy.

Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creature could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet?

The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get up. No sound but the wind in the trees. He rose and stood tottering in that cold autistic dark with his arms outheld for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings.

If you're sane enough to know that you're crazy then you're not as crazy as if you thought you were sane.

If there is an occupational hazard to writing, it's drinking.

Pomisli da možda u istoriji sveta ?ak i ima više kazni nego zlo?ina, ali ne bi mu to uteha.

Themselves among others, everything in its place. Justified in the world.

People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they dont deserve but they seldom mention the good.