Quotes About Balance

Man can never have enough without having too much.

If you love and serve men, you cannot by any hiding or stratagem escape the remuneration. Secret retributions are always restoring the level, when disturbed, of the divine justice. It is impossible to tilt the beam. All the tyrants and proprietors and monopolists of the world in vain set their shoulders to heave the bar. Settles forevermore the ponderous equator to its line, and man and mote, and star and sun, must range to it, or be pulverized by the recoil.[11]

The error is needed to set off the truth, much as a dark background is required for exhibiting the brightness of a picture. And

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths

I hope that here in America more and more the ideal of the well-trained and vigorous body will be maintained neck by neck with that of the well-trained and vigorous mind as the two coequal halves of the higher education for men and women alike.

A permanently successful peace-economy cannot be a simple pleasure-economy.

And here I find the great distinction between the faith of the Indian and the white man. Indian faith sought the harmony of man with his surroundings, the other sought the dominance of surroundings.

If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.

Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves...

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man. The air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect."-- Chief Seattle, Duwamish

Art is something which lies in the slender margin between the real and the unreal.

As you make your way through this hectic world of ours, set aside a few minutes each day. At the end of the year, you'll have a couple of days saved up.

The three things most difficult are to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of leisure.

He walked with equipoise, possibly in either city. Schrödinger's pedestrian.

Everything, even the dirt, was poised.

A foolish husband fears his wife; a prudent wife obeys her husband.

The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives.

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.