Quotes About Balance

Meanwhile, time is one of our most scarce resources. At the moment, you are reading instead of working, playing with the dog, applying to law school, shopping for groceries, or having sex. Life is about trade-offs, and so is economics.

We've built a society that values civil liberties even at the expense of social order.

And jewels and words are no less and no more necessary than cotton and silence.

There is, it seems, a law in things that if a man is compelled to choose between two good actions, mutually exclusive, the one which he chooses to neglect will in course of time avenge itself on him. Rightly considered, this is a comfortable if chastening thought, for it implies that the nature of good is such that it can never, not even for some other mode of itself, be neglected. If ever it is, for whatever admirable reasons, set on one side it will certainly return.

I hope I'm always fair," said Mr. Coningsby, meaning that he couldn't imagine Eternal Justice disagreeing with him

Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.

Existence doesn't have more meaning in one direction than it does in any other.

It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.

This is the dream. Sustainable employment. Some semblance of work-life balance. Talk white. Not a lot. Get contact lenses. Smile. They will assume you're smart. The less you say, the better. Try to project: Responsible, Harmless.

We don't need the Good Life. The Pretty Good Life would be just fine.

The heart of the show, Black and White is 'dunt eat too much Chinese food.

we spend more time gazing at luminous screens than into the eyes of our loved ones.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection "WISDOM OF THE HEART

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity.

We think too much and feel too little.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

You had to speak softly and carry a big stick.

The world doesn't just jump out of its axis on its own.

You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.

My bride is here ... because my equal is here, and my likeness.

Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.