Quotes About Balance

Engaged, yet detached. Active, yet calm. Moving, yet still. This is how it is to be awake in the world.

I don't see the mind, body, and spirit as separate things—they are just different reflections of a unified whole.

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The world is] a wonderful place to live and lots more wonderful if you live in such a way that you can live with yourself.

No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence and virtue; nor can in the least balance the evil of that horror and anxiety which, in their room, guilt introduces into our bosoms.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.

Skepticism, if by that we mean cautiousness, is the balance wheel of civilization.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.

Man is the only creature that dares to light a fire and live with it. The reason? Because he alone has learned to put it out.

The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.

Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn't fascinate us, there would be no desire to engage with it; but if it didn't frustrate us on some level, there would be no drive to rewrite or remake it.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other.

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tepmts empty posturing.

Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.

Order should not have priority over freedom. But the affirmation of freedom should be elevated from a mood to a strategy.

order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.

For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.

Balance-of-power diplomacy was less a choice than an inevitability. No state was strong enough to impose its will; no religion retained sufficient authority to sustain universality. The concept of sovereignty and the legal equality of states became the basis of international law and diplomacy. China, by contrast, was never engaged in sustained contact with another country on the basis of equality for the simple reason that it never encountered societies of comparable culture or magnitude.

Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.