Quotes About Balance

I've seen more institutions damaged by too much caution than by rashness, though I've seen both.

We can get by on land only by carrying a huge amount of salt water around with us.

Adoptar movimientos lentos para toda la vida.

Es beweist nichts; ist jeder Beweiskraft entzogen durch das Vorteile-Nachteile-Denken, das böseste der Lebensprinzipien. Alles hat nun einmal seine Vor- und Nachteile, und schon wird das Unzumutbare zumutbar - als Nachteil der wiederum nichts als eine notwendige Eigentheit jedes Vorteils ist.

Mileage craziness is a serious condition that exists in many forms. It can hit unsuspecting travelers while driving cars, motorcycles, riding in planes, crossing the country on bicycles or on foot. The symptoms may lead to obsessively placing more importance on how many miles are traveled than on the real reason for the traveling...On foot, in a van, on a fleet motorcycle or on a bicycle, a person must be very careful not to become overly concerned with arriving.

Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The same is true of thoughts as of passions. When your mind wanders, like a child, your will must bring it back, like a mother. [. . .] The will-parent must discipline the mind-child, avoiding both the opposite extremes commonly made in disciplining either children or thoughts: tyranny or permissiveness.

the contemplative life not only does not exclude, but requires, the active life.

ora et labora, prayer and work.

It's just as dangerous and just as heretical to under—do as to over—do what Scripture says.

13. Moderation is dull. (Read G. K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy and The Man Who Was Thursday to refute that cliché.)

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, but don't put all your eggs in one basket.

You have to keep your priorities straight, if you plan to do well in stocks.

In Chapter 8, I argued that personal vision, by itself, is not the key to releasing the energy of the creative process. The key is "creative tension," the tension between vision and reality. The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly.

How can we stop going faster while our ability to see further ahead is decreasing?

All animals and wayfarers are Tukten's friends, and listen to him carefully, yet he rarely speaks except when spoken to, and never seems to speak too much; without obtruding, he becomes the centre of each situation, so naturally does he belong where the moment finds him.

Putuskan apa yang kau inginkan, dan berusahalah untuk menjadikannya kenyataan. Jangan sampai kau lupa hidup karena terlalu sibuk bermimpi

It's hard knowing what to allow and what not to. It's hard to know how much discipline to apply. If you don't give enough, then the child runs wild, and the parents get the blame. If you keep too strict control, he doesn't develop naturally and he blames you for screwing him up.

Murder is the one crime that can't be put right. It upsets the balance. The dead can't be restored like stolen property; death doesn't heal like physical or emotional scars left by assault or rape. It's final. The end...

Satchidananda.

When we eat plants, food takes on a different quality. We take from the earth food that is ready for us and does not fight against us as we take it.

The big corporations and those who must compete with them are not concerned with a sense of harmony among plants, animals, and nature.

Everyone has boundaries. If you find yourself doing something that makes you bitter, it is time to reconsider.

If we avoid junk foods that are high in sugar or fats and nothing else, about the only way we can fail to get enough protein is if we are on a diet that is insufficient in calories.36 Protein

In other words, the interests of every being affected by an action are to be taken into account and given the same weight as the like interests of any other being.