Quotes About Balance

It is true that all forms of life, by necessity and by natural design, consume one another to live but they do not intentionally bring about another's extinction, systematically deprive other species of their source of food, or create factions and wars. They same cannot be said for human beings.

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In Buddhism, compassion always goes with wisdom. Compassion without wisdom is not understood to be true compassion, and wisdom without compassion is not true wisdom.

The notion of justice creates an irreparable split between the just and the unjust, the righteous and the unrighteous, whereas the notion of wisdom evokes the sense of equality and solidarity.

While there is no one who hasn't an evil bone in their body, there is also no one who is totally evil to the core. the fact that someone harbors opposing emotions simply makes them human.

Radiant energy is born when different vibrations are in harmony—and

There's no advantage to hurrying through life." -Shikamaru Nara

Drum lest mit Maß, doch lest genug, Dann wird's euch wohl ergehen. Bloß Bücher fressen macht nicht klug. Man muss sie auch verstehen.

Zwei Seiten Eines läßt sich nicht bestreiten: Jede Sache hat zwei Seiten. — Die der andern, das ist eine, Und die richtige Seite, deine.

Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.

When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

The time I kill is killing me.

I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.

as astronomer Carl Sagan once aptly put it, you do not want to keep your mind so open that your brain is likely to fall out.

el estoicismo no se centra en suprimir u ocultar las emociones; más bien se trata de reconocer nuestras emociones, reflexionar sobre lo que las provoca y redirigirlas para nuestro propio bien.

En realidad, el estoicismo no se centra en suprimir u ocultar las emociones; más bien se trata de reconocer nuestras emociones, reflexionar sobre lo que las provoca y redirigirlas para nuestro propio bien.

Hay una gran diferencia entre la alegría y el dolor; si me piden que elija, buscaré la primera y evitaré la segunda. La primera está de acuerdo con la naturaleza, la segunda es contraria a ella.

There is no way to get everything in life: You either cultivate your own reason and give precedence to virtue above all else, or you desperately go after externals. You will either give priority to things within you, or to those outside of you. There is a trade-off, and you have to decide which way to go.

una vida humana digna se tiene que centrar en el cultivo del carácter personal y en la preocupación por las demás personas (e incluso por la propia naturaleza), y que se disfruta más si se adopta un camino adecuado —pero no fanático— para distanciarse de los bienes puramente mundanos.

For Aristotle, then, the idea of the flourishing life cannot be disentangled from that of the balanced one, and the person who pursues moral virtue at the expense of all else—who views moral considerations as always overriding of all others—is by definition one whose life is unbalanced.

eat well, exercise daily, get plenty of sleep, and do well in school.

Between the poles of individualism and community, freedom and constraint, pragmatism emerged as a genuinely American philosophical outlook—and as a way of life.

Zhuangzi, another pivotal Daoist sage in the fourth century BCE, says, "Resign yourself to what cannot be avoided and nourish what is within you—this is the best.