Quotes About Balance

There's no tragedy in nature, only process -- and therefore no triumph, either.

But that is the way of the world: sadness and delight, anger and forbearance, hatred and love—all woven together in every inch of the tapestry.

This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose

To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not.

When you realize you're fighting a fundamental law of the universe, it's best to surrender to nature.

strange order always underlies the appearance of chaos.

When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential.

From time to time, things in this world fall out of harmony, and there is a need to synchronize.

Be of the world and in the world and above the world all at once. Be you and only you

The world turns and the world changes, but one thing does not change . . . The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.

Once, there were no predators, no prey. Only harmony. There were no quakes, no storms, everything in balance. In the beginning, time was all at once and forever — no past, present, and future, no death. We broke it all.

THE WAY AND THE WAY NOT

If we rely upon the tao with which we're born, we always know what is the right thing to do in any situation, the good thing not for our bank accounts or for ourselves, but for our souls. We are tempted from the tao by self-interest, by base emotions and passions.

Embrace the weather, child, and you'll understand the balance of the world.

Maybe if everything was beautiful, nothing would be.

where the animals that wake and live in the absence of the sun are going about their business more peacefully than does humanity. There

an age-old patter that seemed like chaos but was not...

Even decent people must occasionally choose between the lesser of two evils.

What good is genius without humility? What value does it have if it isn't married undivorceable to kindness and empathy?

She realized then that madness and sanity were two worlds separated from each other by no more than a single step.

To everything there is a season, A time to kill and a time to heal

the basic problem with the average man and woman was precisely that they were so average and that there were so many of them, taking far more than they gave to the world, quite incapable of managing their own lives intelligently let alone society, government, the economy, and the environment

Embrace the weather, child, and you'll understand the balance of the world.

too much leisure was a dangerous distraction from the cold, hard realities of life