Quotes About Balance

Let the punishment match the offense.

Do you prefer that you be right or happy?

The days are too short even for love how can there be enough time for quarreling?

He is rich that is satisfied.

The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person.

Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.

It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.

If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

For one to be free there must be at least two.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.

There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.

Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.

Freedom, security, convenience - choose two

There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free.

Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.

Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.

When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.