Quotes About Balance

Cradle to Cradle is like good gardening; it is not about "saving" the planet but about learning to thrive on it.

1. Eat within one hour of waking. 2. Eat like a king or queen at breakfast, a prince or princess at lunch, and a pauper at dinner. 3. Take your last bite three hours before bedtime

I have come to realize that in life and politics, there is always more to take into consideration.

sound as the parachute

any society or government that relies too heavily on technology will find itself perched perilously on a crumbling precipice over the valley of death and destruction.

It was like he was being pulled in a single direction, but by two diametrically opposed forces—if such a thing could be possible.

Be a duck, remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath

The giant fish devours the living and the dead and the inanimate. Bottles, tin cans, cuckoo clocks, truck tires, a whole sheep, an intact Newfoundland dog with its collar on, have all been taken from the stomach of white.

There's a harmony flowing through everything: art, music, shape. Sometimes you can just feel the way things are and ought to be.

In the long run, all wrongs are righted, every minus is equalized with a plus, the columns are totaled and the totals are found correct. But that's in the long run. We must live in the short run and matters are often unjust there. The compensating for us of the universe makes all the accounts come out even, but they grind down the good as well as the wicked in the process.

Never hate your enemies, it affects you judgment.

The law, you know, can be a dreary business. A little harmless diversion is certainly required, from time to time. As a corrective.

God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.

Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes think, maybe that's our function. Maybe every few eons, some animal comes along that kills off the rest of the world, clears the decks, and lets evolution proceed to its next phase.

Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they're not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.

Pleasure and shame. Shame and pleasure. These were the world's currencies. And it paid out both in equal measure.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.

Old G.K. knew when to fast and when to down a good ale. It's the timing. It's all in the timing. [On G.K. Chesterton]

I'm a great fan of Chesterton, you know. He once said that he became a Catholic because we're the only religion that sees no contradiction between a pint, a pipe, and a cross.

Then came a final wave of his hand, his red wind-breaker like a splash of paint on the kingfisher blue and the dome of cerulean above it, almost a quaint folk painting, the forms containing all that was essential, man suspended above the abyss, the water and sky elegant, the points of color making the whole greater than the sum of its parts, as a work of art should do. As

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