Quotes About Balance

Just deciding where to go on vacation can often test the marriage's flexibility. One partner wants to do something physical and adventurous, like trying to outrun molten lava down a volcano; the other prefers something more restful, even spiritual, like raking gravel in a Buddhist monastery.

A well-organized stocking drawer is the first step toward a well-organized mind.

But when the seesaw of good fortune sinks downward for one person, it is very often on its way up for someone else. This little-known law of physics is called the Fulcrum of Fortune, and although most people prefer to think of fortune as a wheel that spins, the fulcrum (that is, seesaw) is a more accurate depiction for most of us, since the worse our own luck becomes, the more likely we are to notice the good fortune of those around us and brood about the injustice of it all.

Busy hands and idle minds have knitted many a sweater; Busy minds and idle hands have knitted many a brow.

Penelope was in favor of new experiences, as long as they did not upset the digestion

Remember, Weed: The good of one tree is not important. The good of the forest is what matters.

Agatha Swanburne - "Do your best before lunch and do your best after lunch. During lunch, have a sandwich.

Agatha Swanburne - "Peas first, biscuits last, make for a happy meal.

Agatha Swanburn - "A journey of a thousand miles is best spent napping.

Shikin Haramitsu DaiKo Myo

If you don't acknowledge the bad side of things, bad things don't even exist. Only divinity exists.

Overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. - Makoto Kuzanagi, Ghost in the shell

One thing is all things. To resolve one matter, one must resolve all matters. Changing one thing changes all things. Once I made the decision to sow rice in the fall, I found that I could also stop transplanting, and plowing, and applying chemical fertilizers, and preparing compost, and spraying pesticides.

If we do have a food crisis it will not be caused by the insufficiency of nature's productive power, but by the extravagance of human desire.

Non c'è nessuno così grande come chi non cerca di realizzare niente.

My idea is entirely different. I think we should mix all the species together and scatter them worldwide, completely doing away with their uneven distribution. This would give nature a full palette to work with as it establishes a new balance given the current conditions. I call this the Second Genesis.

Human life is not sustained by its own power. Nature gives birth to human beings and keeps them alive. This is the relation in which people stand to nature. People do not create food, nature bestows it upon us.

Nature is one body. We can say that while human beings and insects are part of nature, they also represent nature as a whole. And if that is so, when we harm plants, microorganisms, and insects through large-scale conventional agriculture, we are harming humanity as well.

Food and medicine are not two different things: they are the front and back of one body.

Food is life, and life must not step away from nature.

Núi sông c? cây ??u là Ph?t.

Humanity must stop indulging the desire for material possessions and personal gain and move instead toward spiritual awareness.

We must realize that both in the past and today, there is only one 'sustainable' course available to us. We must find our way back to true nature. We must set ourselves to the task of revitalizing the earth. Regreening the earth, sowing seeds in the desert - that is the path society must follow.

Nature is one body. We can say that while human beings and insects are part of nature, they also represent nature as a whole. And if that is so, when we harm plants, microorganisms, and insects through large-scale conventional agriculture (to just use one example), we are harming humanity as well.