Quotes About Balance

We must strive to be like the moon

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

Feelings demand living space.

Life does contain moments of adventure, but these times are interspersed with long periods of plain, unvarnished hard work. The real things in life are attained at these monotonous level periods, so to speak, more than they are at the high peaks of excitement. People who in their reading feed on the lurid and melodramatic are not prepared for the long stretches of routine work which fill every life.

Strength without compassion is soulless and cruel. Weakness, too, has its place, for it brings understanding.

There are so many sad and ugly things in the world that I feel I must try to counterbalance them with whatever beauty I can produce. Setting a pretty table in a world of pain might seem callous, given that people are starving and living in dreadful disease and poverty. But in trying to create islands of beauty and peace, I feel I am honoring the dreams of the world.

Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully

Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.

For the greatest thing in the smallest compass is a sound mind in a human body.

Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.

Giddy grasshopper Take care...do not leap and crush These pearls of dewdrop

A person who walks well does not move his body from his waist up, but rather walks with his legs. Thus, his body is serene, his internal organs are not stressed, and he is not worn out. You should observe the manner in which men carry heavy loads.

This is like a boat following a current downstream. Though you can say that it moves, the boat is at rest and there is no trace of that movement. This is called 'moving without moving.'36

Being at rest and being inert are also completely different. Being at rest does not distance itself from living ch'i, but being inert is slightly removed from it.

Marco Polo describes a bridge, stone by stone. 'But which is the stone that supports the bridge?' Kublai Khan asks. 'The bridge is not supported by one stone or another,' Marco answers, 'but by the line of the arch that they form.' Kublai Khan remains silent, reflecting. Then he adds: 'Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.' Polo answers: 'Without stones there is no arch.

One should be light like a bird and not like a feather.

Every choice has its obverse, that is to say a renunciation, and so there is no difference between the act of choosing and the act of renouncing.

again I am torn between the necessity and the impossibility of answering.

I felt in harmony with the disharmony of others, myself, and the world.

Es preciso que entre las cosas pensadas y las cosas no haya más diferencias. Entonces seremos felices.

Aç?k konu?al?m: Her rejim, hatta en otoriter olan bile de?i?ken bir denge durumunda ayakta kalabilir, bu nedenle kendi bask? donan?m?n?n varl???n? sürekli olarak hakl? göstermesi gerekir ve bask? uygulayacak bir ?eylere gereksinme duyar.

It was the love which the hunter has for living things, and which he can only express by aiming his gun at them ...

anyone who wants to see the earth properly must keep himself at a necessary distance from it