Quotes About Balance

You have to give it (the tiger) room. If you don't give it room, it will bite you.

Le goût est la qualité fondamentale qui résume toutes les autres qualités. C'est le nec plus ultra de l'intelligence. Ce n'est que par lui seul que le génie est la santé suprême et l'équilibre de toutes les facultés.

The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.

To go too far is as bad as not to go far enough.

In the morning, hear the Way; in the evening, die content!

Till you have learned to serve men, how can you serve ghosts? Till you know about the living, how are you to know about the dead?

There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life - reciprocity.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

The world cannot be full of lead dogs, or the pack would pull itself apart.

A little guilt has made more than a few men live better than they would have done—trying to even the scales before they cross the river.

Life is not easy, but, at least, it can be simple.

Goats can be milked many times, but killed only once

Our son is in school now. You know, he's six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning, maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work.

It's one thing to remember your roots, Sam. Helps us keep our balance. But don't let your roots become your excuse to be stuck.

It's one thing to remember your roots, Sam. Helps us keep our balance. But don't let your roots become your excuse to be stuck.

Life consists of achieving good not apart from evil but in spite of it.

The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites—day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been, and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end. C. G. JUNG

The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance.

That's how life was, death and birth, grub and harvest, rain and clearing, winter and summer. You had to take one with the other, for that's the way it ran. The characters and situations in this work are wholly fictional and imaginary, and do not portray and are not intended to portray any actual persons or parties.