Quotes About Balance

What will be will be well — for what is is well, To take interest is well, and not to take interest is well.

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

Life breaks into beauty again and we realize that man may bring hell itself into the world, but that Nature ever patiently waits to be his natural paradise.

When the full-grown poet came, Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine; But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled, Nay, he is mine alone; — Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each by the hand; And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly holding hands, Which he will never release until he reconciles the two, And wholly and joyously blends them.

Have you ever thought how much is in the negative quality of nature—the negative—the simply loafing, doing nothing, worrying about nothing, living out of doors and getting fresh air, plenty of sleep—letting everything else take care of itself?

I do not call one greater and one smaller, that which fills it period and place is equal to any.

I do not call one greater and one smaller, That which fills its period and place is equal to any.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

The spirit receives from the body just as much as it gives to the body, if not more.

Me wherever my life is lived, O to be self-balanced for contingencies, To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

I am the poet of the body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me

If you are a student, be also a student of the body ... realizing that a broad chest, a muscular pair of arms, and two sinewy legs, will be just as much credit to you, and stand you in hand through your future life, equally with your geometry, your history, your classics, your law, medicine, or divinity. Let nothing divert you from your duty to your body

Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tensions between the poles of disorder and order.

He who cannot take sides should keep silent.

it is well to heed the old adage—" listen to both sides of the story." Among the many reasons for this, and perhaps most important, is the fact that if everyone is against something (particularly heroin addiction), one can assume that there is something which can be said in its favor.

Fancies were all very well for a change, but must be only occasional guests in a world devoted to reality.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. —ALBERT EINSTEIN, IN A LETTER TO HIS SON EDUARD, FEBRUARY 5, 1930

never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism.

Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

When the sales guys run the company, the product guys don't matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off.

He believed that great harvests came from arid sources, pleasure from restraint," she noted. "He knew the equations that most people didn't know: Things led to their opposites.

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least

If I had to choose between justice and disorder, on the one hand, and injustice and order, on the other, I would always choose the latter.

When birds are descending near the ground and the head is below the tail, they lower the tail, which is spread wide open, and take short strokes with the wings; consequently, the head is raised above the tail, and the speed is checked so that the bird can alight on the ground without a shock."9 Ever notice all that?