Quotes About Balance

it would be good to reconcile all these antagonisms.

the state of the future will need to function more like the human immune system

Doing nothing at all is often the very wisest thing ... as the world is a ball and is turning and everything is in fact in motion all the time, doing nothing is not really doing nothing, it's allowing things to mover at their own pace

Partire e fermarsi sono le due cose più difficili

That was one of the things about him. He walked this line between the comic and the poignant, between the certainly doomed and the hopelessly hopeful. In time I came to think it the common ground of all humanity.

The HPI measures two things: the well-being of nations and the sustainability of nations.

The world's turning a whole lot faster than it should be.

I want to be good, do good, be a worker among workers, a friend among friends. But there's also this part of me that is so dissatisfied with everything. If I'm not living on the verge of death, I feel like I'm not really living.

I always get overwhelmed trying to do everything perfectly. I can't do a job and not put everything I have into it. I need to be the best employee, the best coworker, the best whatever. I need everyone to like me and I just burn out bending over backward to make that happen.

El planeta ya no da para +

Anger should be a weapon to be used discriminately, not a weakness and a loss of control.

Je moet begrijpen dat mensen niet gemaakt zijn om zichzelf toon te stellen, maar om een ruimte te vinden waarin ze in harmonie met de hemel en de aarde kunnen leven.

One should become the master of one's mind rather than let one's mind master him.

Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity,decline,disgrace,honor,praise,censure,suffering, and pleasure.They are neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline. The heavenly gods will surely protect one who is unbending before the eight winds.

His hours of sleep were no more fixed than those of his meals.

Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us. But the Wasichus came, and they have made little islands for us and other little islands for the four-leggeds, and always these islands are becoming smaller, for around them surges the gnawing flood of the Wasichu; and it is dirty with lies and greed.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

THE TROUBLE with automation is that it often gives us what we don't need at the cost of what we do.

gained. We shouldn't allow the glories of technology to blind our inner watchdog to the possibility that we've numbed an essential part of our self.

When automation distances us from our work, when it gets between us and the world, it erases the artistry from our lives.

Learning requires inefficiency. Businesses, which seek to maximize productivity and profit, would rarely, if ever, accept such a trade-off.

There needs to be time for efficient data collection and time for inefficient contemplation, time to operate the machine and time to sit idly in the garden.

where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature… and all watched over by machines of loving grace. That

When you work all the time, the other aspects of your identity recede until they seem to have disappeared.