Quotes About Balance

When you are faced with a challenge that is far beyond your skills, the result is anxiety. When your skills are high but the challenges are low, you are bored. If you have low skills and the challenge is also low, you are able to do the job but are unlikely to become absorbed in it—apathy is the characteristic response. But when the skills are high and in balance with a stiff challenge, flow occurs. It is the Aristotelian principle on a two-dimensional plot.

You cannot carry water on both shoulders.

Nature tells us to rest after meals and people who are too busy to heed that inner voice are often dead at the age of fifty years.

Pain and joy are also part of the polyphony of life, and ... they can exist independently side by side.

God will often require quick action, but he also requires stillness and reflection." —MEDITATING ON THE WORD

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

expression is always concentrated in the dissonance.

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

Nature speaks in equations.

Zero is powerful because it is infinity's twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and yang.

Era fuerte cuando él estaba débil, cortésmente débil cuando era él el fuerte.

The truth is not in the middle, and not in one extreme; but in both extremes.

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.

How such views might steer clear of authoritarian dogmatism, head-in-the-sand private intuition, narrow professional specialization, or extravagantly broad but undependable

People calculate too much and think too little.

Following one good to the end may be catastrophic, not because it isn't a good, but because there are others which can't be sacrificed without evil.

There's a narrow line between love and hate sometimes, you know. And it can be crossed unwittingly.

Sometimes love tries to do too much.

As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host.

He recognized that, first, the rich are always desirous of governing for their own benefit, and second that the people can always turn against them and become a mob, taking things into its own hands. As always, the mean between extremes is to be sought.

Justice without mercy is tyranny, and mercy without justice is weakness. Justice without love is pure socialism, and love without justice is baloney. JAIME CARDINAL SIN speaking at a Prison Fellowship International conference in Nairobi, Kenya, 1986

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

They all forget that those who make the least noise do the most work. An engine that expends all its steam in whistling, has nothing left with which to turn wheels. Then let us cultivate silence. All that we can save in noise we gain in power.