Quotes About Balance

reason tends to be the servant rather than the master of desire.

A practicing Stoic will keep the trichotomy of control firmly in mind as he goes about his daily affairs. He will perform a kind of triage in which he sorts the elements of his life into three categories: those over which he has complete control, those over which he has no control at all, and those over which he has some but not complete control.

How much should a Stoic grieve? In proper grief, Seneca tells Polybius, our reason "will maintain a mean which will copy neither indifference nor madness, and will keep us in the state that is the mark of an affectionate, and not an unbalanced, mind.

the art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."46

The emotions are perfectly willing to listen to the intellect as long as the intellect isn't trying to impose its views but is merely trying to help the emotions get what they want.

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

If all the other noble qualities of life were placed in the balance against it, loyalty would outweigh them all.

One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression

Harmony of colouring is destructive of artÖ it is like the smile of a fool.

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.

The bird a nest the spider a web the human friendship.

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

One Law for the Lion & Ox is Oppression.

Man was made for joy and woe,And when this we rightly knowThrough the world we safely go.

Enough! or too much.

There is no idea so right that there is nothing wrong about it, And nothing so wrong that there isn't something right about it. ~William Blake~

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom...You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary - it is the respective proportion of those two categories that make that life appear interesting or humdrum.

The question to ask yourself is this: What can I give back to balance what's been taken away? Status, turf, team membership, recognition, roles? If people feel that the change has robbed them of control over their futures, can you find some way to give them back a feeling of control?

People can deal with a lot of change if it is coherent and part of a larger whole. But adding unrelated and unexpected changes, even small ones, can push people to the breaking point.

Imagine penguins and sea leopards outlasting the whole works. Well, probably they deserve to. Especially penguins. I don't think they ever hurt anybody.