Quotes About Balance

Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.

A person may paint or talk about painting but he cannot do both at the same time.

It's a poor blaster that doesn't point both ways.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.

Humans have different emotional states that are here to serve us, if anything be redirected. Not to be tamed.

You either make business your lifestyle, or business becomes your lifestyle.

Your "why" should be centered around yourself. If you're not taken care of, how do you ever expect to take care of others?

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

What goes up must come down.

Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Nature is exceedingly simple and harmonious with itself.

Stop relying only on technology.Technology can help the qualified, well-trained human being but cannot replace him.

Perception without judgment is spineless; judgment with no perception is blind. Introversion lacking any extraversion is impractical; extraversion with no introversion is superficial.

Good type development thus demands that the auxiliary supplement the dominant process in two respects. It must supply a useful degree of balance not only between perception and judgment but also between extraversion and introversion. When it fails to do so it leaves the individual literally "unbalanced," retreating into the preferred world and consciously or unconsciously afraid of the other world.

Thinking or feeling judgment is vitally necessary, and introverted intuitives must develop it for themselves, because their utter conviction of their intuition's validity makes them impervious to the influence of outside judgment. The importance to introverted intuitives of cultivating a judging process to balance and support their intuition cannot be overemphasized.

Well-developed introverts can deal ably with the world around them when necessary, but they do their best work inside their heads, in reflection. Similarly well-developed extraverts can deal effectively with ideas, but they do their best work externally, in action.

The body is the end terminal for difficulties. If our difficulties are handled on the mental and emotional levels they need never manifest on the physical level.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted.

The world that we encounter in ordinary experience is one in which we are faced by choices equally absolute, the realisation of some of which must inevitably mean the sacrifice of others.