Quotes About Balance

Moderately wise a man should be— don't wish for too much wisdom; a man's heart is seldom happy if he is truly wise. Moderately wise a man should be— don't wish for too much wisdom; if you can't see far into the future, you can live free from care.32

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

You make a living out of what you get and make a life out of what you give...

Elders say that too much technology makes us slaves all over again.

Want is not the point. I serve the Force. The Force is conflict. The Empire is conflict. The two are congruent.

Once, as a Jedi, he had meditated to find peace. Now he meditated to sharpen the edges of his anger.

Sometimes it's possible for a decision to be right and wrong at the same time

He'd said that the relationship between Sith apprentice and Master was symbiotic but in a delicate balance. An apprentice owed his Master loyalty. A Master owed his apprentice knowledge and must show only strength. But the obligations were reciprocal and contingent. Should either fail in his obligation, it was the duty of the other to destroy him. The Force required it. Since before the Clone Wars, Vader's Master had never shown anything but

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

I wonder what would happen if there were a United Organization of Organisms (UOO, pronounced "uh-oh"), where each species gets one vote. Would we be voted off the planet? The answer is pretty clear.

We face the possibility of being rejected by the biosphere as a virulent organism. But

I wonder what would happen if there were a United Organization of Organisms (UOO, pronounced "uh-oh"), where each species gets one vote. Would we be voted off the planet? The answer is pretty clear. When we irresponsibly exploit the Earth, disease, famine, and ecological collapse result. We face the possibility of being rejected by the biosphere as a virulent organism. But if we act as a responsible species, nature will not evict us.

Remaining hopeful is essential. And it's true that everyone has good and bad qualities. But hope must be tempered with a realistic view of the situation and an assessment of the likelihood of change.

The back and forth dance of "keep your distance a little closer" is incredibly frustrating for friends and family.

When I was a kid, "selfish" was an insult in my home. It was something only "bad" people indulged in. But I learned that it was only when I started taking care of myself that I was really able to care for others.

Keeping in mind what not having limits is costing you, think about what you will do when (not if!) your family member plows right through your limits. Make the consequences proportional to the limit.

Keep seeing shades of gray. Often, loved ones pick up the borderline defense mechanism of splitting, or seeing things in black and white. Keep in mind the subtleties inherent in all situations. Don't get drawn into the other person's extreme reactions; trust your instincts and form your own judgments.

He who is grasped by the one thing that is needed has the many things under his feet. They concern him but not ultimately, and when he loses them he does not lose the one thing he needs and that cannot be taken from him.

Each of them, all unknowing, fairly gives its due to each chance of life, to each germ of death within itself.

La conscience règne mais ne gouverne pas.

Deux dangers ne cessent de menacer le monde ; l'ordre et le désordre.

La perfection du juste est formée de la bonne composition des sept péchés capitaux, comme la lumière blanche de la composition des sept couleurs traditionnelles. »

You can never be too subtle, and you can never be too simple.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.