Quotes About Balance

We have senses we don't know we have-until we lose them; balance is one that normally works so well, so seamlessly, that is not listed among the five that Aristotle described and was overlooked for centuries afterward.

We have senses we don't know we have—until we lose them; balance is one that normally works so well, so seamlessly, that it is not listed among the five that Aristotle described and was overlooked for centuries afterward.

The balance system gives us our sense of orientation in space. Its sense organ, the vestibular apparatus, consists of three semicircular canals in the inner ear that tell us when we are upright and how gravity is affecting our bodies by detecting motion in three-dimensional space. One canal detects movement in the horizontal plane, another in the vertical plane, and another when we are moving forward or backward.

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.

Meditation is doing what you are doing - whether you are doing formal meditation or child care.

a perfectly just God must punish bad deeds regardless of how many good ones someone has performed.

What seems to have been at work is the axiom, rarely made articulate, but deeply held by many people, that affronted nature will always avenge itself on guilty humanity.

One is reminded of the adage that whether elephants fight or make love, the grass gets trampled.

I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Frica de reac?ia în întârziere a destinului devine mai nefast? decât chiar confirmarea presim?irilor. Nenorocirea stabilizeaz?, cel pu?in, pentru o vreme, balan?a. Promite un armisti?iu.

The alternative to dualism is dialectics: that is to say, love

A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains." Henry Wheeler Shaw

The main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you can have all the time you want for reading.

He would say only slightly facetiously that the main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you can have all the time you want for reading.

Immortality—was electric-light slime reaching for the stars, and she stood poised on the brink, balanced on the razor-edge between life and death, the flickering and the eternal, the human and the immortal, sanity and the holy madness that was realer than sanity, more cogent, a path to oneness with the timeless infinite that could be hers if she had the courage to cast off her moorings to the shores of self and trust her fate to that all-forgiving sea.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values.

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

In my heart are the deeds my body has done and my heart has been weighed in the balance.

the secret of wisdom is detachment without withdrawal.