Quotes About Balance

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it

A general "law of least effort" applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people will eventually gravitate to the least demanding course of action. In the economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven by the balance of benefits and costs. Laziness is built deep into our nature.

The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time. Can you find more time to do the things you enjoy doing?

Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love.

Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently.

He laughed and then he got up from his chair and went to the window. The more intelligent you become the more problems you'll have, Charlie. Your intellectual growth is going to outstrip your emotional growth. And I think you'll find that as you progress, there will be many things you'll want to talk to me about. I just want you to remember that this is the place for you to come when you need help.

Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis.

You can't have everything you want in one woman. One more argument for polygamy.

Quanto mais inteligente você se tornar, mais problemas você terá, Charlie. Seu crescimento intelectual vai ultrapassar seu crescimento emocional.

Inteligência sem a habilidade de dar ou receber afeto leva a um colapso mental e moral, para neurose, e possivelmente até para psicose.

InteligenÈ›a ,educaÈ›ia È™i cunoaÈ™terea au devenit niÈ™te idoli veneraÈ›i. Dar È™tiu bine c? toÈ›i aÈ›i pierdut din vedere un lucru: inteligenÈ›a È™i educaÈ›ia care f?r? sentimente omeneÈ™ti nu fac nici cât o ceap? degerat?. Nu m? înÈ›elegeÈ›i greÈ™it. InteligenÈ›a este unul dintre cele mai mari daruri ale omului. Dar de cele mai multe ori c?utarea cunoaÈ™terii exclude c?utarea dragostei.

In the state of cosmic equilibrium There is nothing to abandon or practice, No meditation or post-meditation period.

do not oppose the sun with the moon anymore:

This law … defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war.

There are times when having too much to say can be as dumbfounding as having too little.

You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.

With gorilla gone, will there be hope for man?

One thing I know people will say to me is 'Are you suggesting we go back to being hunter-gatherers?'" "That of course is an inane idea," Ishmael said. "The Leaver life-style isn't about hunting and gathering, it's about letting the rest of the community live—and agriculturalists can do that as well as hunter-gatherers.

If there are forty thousand people in an area that can only support thirty thousand, it's no kindness to bring in food from the outside to maintain them at forty thousand. That just guarantees that the famine will continue.

Diversity, not uniformity, is what works. Our problem is not that people are living a bad way but rather that they're all living the same way. The earth can accommodate many people living in a voraciously wasteful and pollutive way, it just can't accommodate all of us living that way.

You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.

THIS LAW THAT YOU HAVE so admirably described defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war." "Yes. As you said, it's the peace-keeping law.

a paradox: 'Intensification of production to feed an increased population leads to a still greater increase in population.

In the natural community, whenever a population's food supply increases, that population increases. As that population increases, its food supply decreases, and as its food supply decreases, that population decreases. This interaction between food populations and feeder populations is what keeps everything in balance.