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Quotes About Balance

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
~ Plotinus
Our lives will only ever always continue to be a balancing act that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty.
~ Shane Koyczan
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.
~ Socrates
I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on.
~ Nina Dobrev
Creation and destruction are one, to the eyes who can see beauty.
~ Savitri Devi
The essence of beauty is unity in variety.
~ Felix Mendelssohn
When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.
~ Christy Turlington
Chic is when a woman is in harmony with herself.
~ Giambattista Valli
Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.
~ Alvar Aalto
Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty.
~ Johann Joachim Winckelmann
If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.
~ Eric Gill
Apply the way of karate to all things. Therein lies its beauty.
~ Gichin Funakoshi
Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.
~ Henri Matisse
A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.
~ Saadi
Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty.
~ Christopher Wren
One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.
~ George Leigh Mallory
Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
~ Isaac Newton
If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.
~ Eric Gill
Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we are to appreciate harmony.
~ Maria Montessori
Time is the truest form of wealth. And the beauty is, we are all born equally rich in time.
~ Rolf Potts
Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in the phrase: To create a harmony.
~ Unknown
Put Karate into your everyday living, that is how you will see true beauty.
~ Gichin Funakoshi
The world is like an eye, a beard, a spot of beauty and eyebrow, Where each thing is neatly in place.
~ Hafez
The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural.
~ Lawrence Halprin