Quotes About Balance

Their version of rock-paper-scissors was elephant—fist, mouse—palm, and ant—little finger. The elephant crushed the mouse, the mouse squashed the ant, and the ant crawled up the elephant's trunk and paralyzed his brain.

The secret of a happy life is to know when to stop and then to go that little bit further.

The secret of a happy life, Lewis, is to know when to stop and then to go that little bit further.

I renounced complete happiness in order to secure a part of it.

A guerra é mãe e rainha de todas as coisas

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

This world… ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

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It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.

All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting

Without injustices, the name of justice would mean what?

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Always having what we want may not be the best good fortune Health seems sweetest after sickness, food in hunger, goodness in the wake of evil, and at the end of daylong labor sleep.

Nature loves to hide.

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

Any day stands equal to the rest.

People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.

One must realize that war is common, and justice strife, and that all things come to be through strife and are (so) ordained.

What opposes unites, and the finest attunement stems from things bearing in opposite directions, and all things come about by strife.

The cosmos works by harmony of tensions, like the lyre and bow.

Latent structure is master of obvious structure