Quotes About Balance

The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position.

De psychiaters en, op hun manier, ook de biechtvaders hebben gelijk. Zorgen of angsten, die men uitpraat, relativeren zich tot wat binnen de grenzen valt van wat ons weerstandsvermogen zonder evenwichtsverstoring verdragen kan.

We're at war with nature. If we win, we're lost.

Nous menons une guerre contre la nature. Si nous la gagnons, nous sommes perdus." ??? ??? ????? ?? ??????? ??? ??????? ???? ??? ????

Le hasard pur n'engendre que le chaos. Le déterminisme pur ne crée rien de nouveau. C'est l'association de ces deux facteurs qui donne naissance à la richesse et à la variété des formes de la Nature.

Life is more than meat, and it is also more than theory.

Si Non Oscillas, Noli Tintinnare

I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of.

That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.

The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always left me confused.

Certainty is the enemy of reason and of reasonableness.

There's plenty of symmetry in revenge, but no virtue.

Man's dominion is a call to service, not a license to to exterminate.

The genius of stable societies is that they achieve stability without stagnation, repetition without monotony, conformity with originality, obedience with liberty.

Selfishness is neither good nor bad—it depends on the way we are selfish as to whether it nourishes or injures.

It makes no sense to hurry up, and so mess up, what I am doing now in order to get started on what I plan to do next. Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Spontaneity needs to be balanced by careful preparation and forethought. It needs to be supported by an intense prayer life on the part of the minister. One must be well experienced in prayer to lead in prayer. One can hardly lead if one does not know the way oneself. Spontaneity has to arise from a profound experience of prayer.

A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason." By understanding many things, I have accomplished nothing." Hugo Grotius

Our constitution shows one thing pretty clearly. While the Founders wanted a stable government, they were also afraid of it.

When you are frustrated and do not know a way out, only flexibility and moderation towards difficulties will save you.

Good will and ill will are just two sides of the same card...

No individual is solely reflective, emotional, active, or experimental, and different life situations call for different resources to be brought into play. Most people will, on the whole, find travel on one road more satisfactory than on others and will consequently tend to keep close to it; but Hinduism encourages people to test all four and combine them as best suits their needs.