Quotes About Balance

Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators... she will lay bare before thy gaze the treasures hidden in the depths of her pure virgin bosom.

As no cause remains without its due effect from greatest to least, from a cosmic disturbance down to the movement of your hand, and as like produces like, Karma is that unseen and unknown law which adjusts wisely, intelligently, and equitably each effect to its cause.

The ultimate aim is reverence for the universe. The ultimate aim is love for life. The ultimate aim is harmony within oneself.

The lines between being assertive or being aggressive, taking charge or being overly ambitious, and being nice or being ineffective are so blurred (by both sexes) that hitting the right note can feel impossible. In

I needed a wife, goddamnit, someone to take care of me while I took care of business. But I was the wife. And mother. So

Every position in life is balanced by creating a harmony between the inner self and the surrounding world.

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

How do we understand prejudice, hatred, and violence in the context of modern societies, like our own, among people much like ourselves, among men and women who lived, not in dark times, but in an era when the balance of opinion was against the all-too-open expression of hatred?

I think housework is the reason most women go to the office.

Sometimes poets have to be imperfect so their poetry can be perfect.

Considering the energy balance, the reduction in size and the rise in temperature of the black hole form a feedback mechanism that ultimately must lead to its explosion: The more energy it radiates, the hotter it gets. The hotter it is, the more energy it radiates. And as its energy rises, the ultimate outcome is inescapable: The black hole must explode.

I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. There's European egocentricity, and the African opposite. I normally say that my African experience has made me a better European.

Faculty: The people who get what's left after the football coach receives his salary.

Each country will be a moral force, and no longer a brutal force; while all brutal forces clash with themselves, all moral forces make mighty harmony together.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us, which can mold us, but which can also be affected by us. A balance must be established between these two worlds—the one inside us and the one outside us.

There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing rhymes with another, and light gives them shape.

I found that the scales of life, honesty is the balance that should be maintained if there is to be a true civilisation at all. The one who cheats merely cheats himself, because he has lost the scale by which right and wrong are the guides for the uncertain; in his confusion, for the moment, he has no more confidence in himself and his ability to know right from wrong.

the art of life, mostly, the art of avoiding pain

Classicism, a brief, perfectly balanced instant of complete possession of forms; not a slow and monotonous application of 'rules,' but a pure, quick delight, like the acme of the Greeks, so delicate that the pointer of the scale scarcely trembles …

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.

What I dream of is an art that is equilibrated, pure and calm, free of disturbing subject matter, an art that can be for any intellectual worker, for the business man or the writer, a means of soothing the soul, something like a comfortable armchair in which one can rest from physical fatigue.