Quotes About Balance

We need the balance between good and evil, just like the scorching sun and the soothing moon.

Wealth is limited to the physical and the mental, while health is to be found in all three planes. That's being physically, mentally and spiritually fit.

What benefit will I gain from knowing the clockwise and counter-clockwise phenomena? Either way, they boil down to nothing, or will eventually cancel each other out.

You can try to mix capitalism and socialism together, but you cannot be both at the same time! In the end, one system will always take over the other. Resulting in a true/false friendship.

You can't claim control over the physical body if you can't control your appetite for food.

You cannot expect to keep receiving without giving something back, or paying the price for every pleasure that you wish to enjoy.

You cannot wish for a good life that is full of joy and peace without sacrificing something in return.

You have been taught not to take anything seriously in life. In other words, pay no attention. Now I tell you to take everything seriously, but nothing personal.

You must be ready to sacrifice your health if you wish to gain wealth. That is simply an unavoidable law of nature.

You must become a rational being that is capable to balance everything, big and small acts in life.

You must, therefore, know your limits of self-defence; so as not to cross the line of mercy and forgiveness.

You will simply be wasting your energy by putting too much emphasis on the improvement of the body, while leaving the mind idle — leaving it to rot.

Your current state of health will also define your level of happiness and vice versa.

Your words and actions must go hand-in-hand, so as to avoid any type of contradiction in the near future.

The husband provides direction; the wife, maintenance.

One of satan's most successful devices is to preoccupy us with "good" things to distract us from the "right" things.

There is a lot of promise in the word compromise.

But since such an institution is made up of imperfect human beings with the same unruly passions as anyone else, "In framing a government of men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself."3

We all learn about how the Constitution's framers accomplished that delicate balance through the three branches of government and the separation of their powers: democratically elected representatives frame laws to do the voters' will, which the elected president executes, unless the Supreme Court deems them unconstitutional.

Division There is a depth of darkness In the wild country, days of evening And the silence of the moon. I have crept upon the bare ground Where animals have left their tracks, And faint cries carry on the summits, Or sink to silence in the muffled leaves. Here is the world of wolves and bears And of old, instinctive being, So noble and indifferent as to be remote To human knowing. The scales upon which We seek a balance measure only a divide.

Beauty matters, dare I say, almost as much as spirituality and justice.

God's justice is a saving, healing, restorative justice, because the God to whom justice belongs is the Creator God who has yet to complete his original plan for creation and whose justice is designed not simply to restore balance to a world out of kilter but to bring to glorious completion and fruition the creation, teeming with life and possibility, that he made in the first place.

The most important decisions we make in life are not made by post-Enlightenment left-brain rationality alone.

The garden is far less likely to grow weeds if we have been planting flowers.