Quotes About Balance

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

two men usually filled and left plenty of room on either side.

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

The object of life, after all, is not to understand things, but to maintain one's defences and equilibrium and live as well as one can; it is not only maiden aunts who are placed like this

Making or writing a movie, to me, is like building a watch because a watch is so small and you only can fit so many things inside it that all the pieces really do need to work together.

One of the deepest needs of the human soul is for centeredness . . . which confers meaning on the shapelessness of temporal existence.

For the mind of every man is balanced upon the creative tension within him of conceptual mediation between the opposed polarities of the finite and the infinite, the essential and the existential. the exact equation between them is responsible for the basic human types, which, in aesthetics, constitute the classical and the romantic temperaments.

Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.

Some people are making such thorough plans for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.

The law of the conservation of energy is not simply a law of physics; it is a law of the whole moral universe, and

that rights and duties should be in equilibrium. A

A monarchical or aristocratic system is not immoral, if the rights and duties of persons and classes are in equilibrium, although the rights and duties of different persons and classes are unequal. An

Is it thy head is weak—thy judgment I mean? watch thyself, and come not among those that drink no wine but that which thy weak parts cannot bear —seraphic notions and high-flown opinions—and do not think thyself much wronged to be forbidden their cup.

We disfigure the beautiful face of God's providence, when we fancy him to have a cast of his eye, and care, to one more than another.

You have a four-fold life to live: a body, a brain, a heart and a soul . . . these are your living tools. To use and develop them is not a task. . . . It is a golden opportunity.

Nature punishes gluttony, not avarice or hate.

But they say that sexuality can be dangerously Dionysian. Nowhere do we need order more than at any orgy.

Furthermore, the sense of passion or of power, of depth and vibrancy, feeling and vision, we take away from any work is the result of the intermingling, balance, play, and antagonism between these: it is the arrangement of blues, not any blue itself, which lets us see the mood it formulates, whether pensive melancholy or thoughtless delight, so that one to whom aesthetic experience comes easily will see, as Schopenhauer suggested, sadness in things as readily as smoky violet or moist verdigris.

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.