Quotes About Balance

Through concentrating on a specialty too early in life, a man becomes a kind of useful machine, but not a harmoniously developed personality. It is essential that the student acquire an understanding for, and a lively feeling for values. Otherwise, with his specialized knowledge, he more closely resembles a well-trained

When the results of your behavior meet your needs over time, you experience inner peace.

The mind naturally seeks harmony when presented with two opposing principles.

The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things.

The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and remains free from entanglements.

Even if one turns away from harmony for just one night, suffering ensues.

Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life.

I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.

same time, there is a danger with being too comfortable proclaiming the wrath of God. In

Yet if we search our hearts honestly, most of us would probably find in our thinking about ourselves and in our presentation of the gospel a struggle over how to keep those biblical truths in balance. By nature, we are each drawn towards an unhealthy emphasis on either the walls or the river. Only

Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.

In a world of chemically induced sanity, a little lunacy confers immense advantages.

I have a theory that too much learning unbalances the mind.

Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.

The faster we walk, the more ground we lose.

Take everything in moderation, including moderation.

It's very clear to meyou do not want corporations captured by states. Equally you do not want states captured by corporations.

Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness.

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

When the Tigress plays, the dragon whips its tail.

you cannot plunge in blindly…lest you miss the forest for the trees and there be no end to your labors.

He is a gross man-mountain balanced on strangely tiny feet. Not fat, vast.

Humans are not made for endless light. Humans need their darknesses.

I'm caught, he thought, between a cushion and a soft place