Quotes About Balance

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief.

American women are fools because they try to be everything to everybody.

When it is acute, we call it disease; when it is chronic, we call it nature. It is a disease

Secondly, we have also to know that, of all the centres, we have particularly to remember three,—the Mulâdhâra or the basic, the Sahasrâra or the thousand-petalled lotus in the brain, and the Manipura or the lotus in the navel.

Tamas is typified as darkness or inactivity; Rajas is activity, expressed as attraction or repulsion; and Sattva is the equilibrium of the two. In

that a man must be active in order to pass through activity to perfect calmness. Inactivity

A Yogi must avoid the two extremes of luxury and austerity. He must not fast, nor torture his flesh. He who does so, says the Gita, cannot be a Yogi: He who fasts, he who keeps awake, he who sleeps much, he who works too much, he who does no work, none of these can be a Yogi (Gita, VI, 16).

for the householder who struggles to become rich by good means and for good purposes is doing practically the same thing for the attainment of salvation as the anchorite does in his cell when he is praying;

A Yogi must avoid the two extremes of luxury and austerity. He must not fast, or torture his flesh. For, says the Gita, "He who fasts and he who eats too much, he who keeps awake and he who sleeps much, he who works too much and he who does no work, none of these can be Yogis.

I've realized that everything is about relationships. I've witnessed that ultimately you can't take what you don't give because there is a master bookkeeper out there who keeps accounts balanced. This fundamental link between man, plants, and the earth has been documented since the dawn of civilization.

This is the intimacy that will bind us all our lives, holding us forever to the task implicit in all love relations: how to connect yet not merge, how to respond yet not be absorbed, how to detach but not withdraw.

Life is too short to work so hard.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

Sabism is a dualism and a polyvalent sign of ambivalence, bipolarity and synthesis.

Devemos ser sempre fiéis aos nossos princípios. Tal como no xadrez, não devemos agachar demasiado e fazer jogadas forçadas. A coerção não é vida para ninguém - os paliativos dedo trabalho são quanto baste.

Devemos ser sempre fiéis aos nossos princípios. Tal como no xadrez, não devemos agachar demasiado e fazer jogadas forçadas. A coerção não é vida para ninguém - os paliativos do trabalho são quanto baste.

You don't need an iron fist if you aren't a pacifist.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.