Quotes About Balance

I understand that the way you stop time is by stopping being ruled by it. [Tom Hazard]

And we risk only ever looking above to the future or below to the past and never around at the infinite horizontal landscape of the present. The trouble with ladders is they give you no room to move around. Just room to fall.

We navigate life by making decisions that maximize pleasure and/ or minimize pain.

Wife: I want to have a child. Husband: I can't imagine bringing a child into this messed-up world. Wife: That's exactly the reason we should do it. We need to bring something good into this world to balance out the bad.

I really like the half-hour comedy. I really do. I know people that are in movies all the time and they, you know, they don't see their families as much. And that takes its toll over time.

the past is important to learn from, but not to live in. The future is important for your direction but not to be so consumed in that you can't enjoy the present.

no medicinal fix we contrive will lead us to live forever. "There is no ultimate solution. There is no free lunch. If you cure cancer, you will have more cases of neurodegenerative disease. If you cure neurodegenerative disease, a major plague will come for people who are a hundred years old. There is no ultimate solution, nor should there be.

Sometimes we cannot control our world and hold it too tightly without squeezing some of the life from it.

the war metaphor is misleading, incomplete—even arguably dead wrong. Your immune system isn't a war machine. It's a peacekeeping force that more than anything else seeks to create harmony.

to acknowledge evil, without being consumed by it." Penny (Mouse), in "Set this House in Order

The human brain just isn't designed to take in a whole world's worth of disturbing news. Most of us have enough trouble with the more mundane problems of finding inner peace and securing happiness for our loved ones.

One political party may be preferable to another. A news channel, though, can't be a vehicle for a political party and be anything but a bad thing.

The public largely misunderstands the "fake news" issue. Newspapers rarely fib outright. Most "lies" are errors of omission or emphasis. There are no Fox stories saying blue states have lower divorce rates, nor are there MSNBC stories exploring the fact that many pro-choice Democrats, particularly religious ones, struggle with a schism between their moral and political beliefs on abortion.

Intellectual diversity" in a major news outlet means "someone from both parties." You will connect with one or the other. It doesn't matter which one.

The one thing Mr. Sportscaster can't ever do is remind audiences it's just a game. He or she can't ever tell them it's okay not to care.

Content is designed not just to be lurid and sensational, but immediately disquieting from a psychological standpoint. You're meant to see something in the first flash that upsets you to the point of needing to hang in at least until mental balance is restored.

When I'm around hard-core computer geeks I wanna say, "Come outside, the graphics are great!"

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours.

Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.

Oh, born in days when wits were fresh and clear,And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames;Before this strange disease of modern life,With its sick hurry, its divided aims,Its heads o'ertaxed, its palsied hearts, was rife.

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.

Be his [Sophocles']My special thanks, whose even-balanced soul,From first youth tested up to extreme old age,Business could not make dull, nor passion wild:Who saw life steadily and saw it whole.

Be neither saint- nor sophist-led, but be a man!