Quotes About Balance

Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.

Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.

My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.

Successful people in particular are susceptible to surges of anything-is-possible. They then plunge into new, seemingly attractive markets hoping to prove themselves to the world yet again. However, it is extremely rare that the same person achieves world championship or wins the Nobel Prize in two disciplines. Danger looms just around the corner if the new activity is too distracting and the core business is neglected.

My work has always tried to unite the True with the Beautiful and when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the Beautiful.

As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul…

As above, so below. As within, so without. Originated by Hermes TRISMEGISTUS!

That which is below is like that which is above, and that which is above is like that which is below, to perform the miracles of one only thing.

For the sun is situated in the center of the cosmos, wearing it like a crown

That which is below is like that which is above & that which is above is like that which is below to do the miracles of one only thing.

74. The Earth is brutish; the Heaven is reasonable or rational.

72. Things upon Earth, do not advantage those in Heaven; but all things in Heaven do profit and advantage all things upon Earth.

55. Nothing in Heaven is enslaved; nothing upon Earth is free.

It's all too easy to fall hostage to the urgent over the important.

There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.

Every single one of our acts is ruled by the laws of economy.

help. I understood I'd never be allowed to operate at such heights if it wasn't through him. For a while, we both enjoyed this alliance. Soon, tho, an imbalance became obvious: what he could teach me (nature of instruments, procedures, balance sheet analysis, etc.) was finite, while my domain was inexhaustible

most basic fact of accounting.

Haste in every business brings failures.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are prepared to use it; when they do not require it they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise it would be unserviceable when the time for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiotcy, or be struck with paralysis.

If a man insisted on always being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

Who can take a single step with his head?