Quotes About Balance

There always has to be a balance between freedom and restriction; that is fundamental to any society. Without law there is anarchy. But too much law, applied rigorously, becomes oppression

Human civilization is always regulated, Del. It's how it maintains itself, the eternal balance between freedom and authority. We all live in the middle, obeying the rules for the common good.

Pompous old farts need to have the piss taken out of them every now and then." She put her hands together in Buddhist fashion, and crossed her eyes. "It puts them in touch with their Oneness.

It was a sixty-five, thirty-five split. That percentage isn't something I'd kill for.

We should throw away our arcologies and our starships, and live like the Lord intended

Machines served life, it could not be otherwise.

Sometimes you have to do what's wrong in order to do what's right.

How you humans survive so much experience is something I shall never understand. To do so much and react to it all in the way you do is as much a curse as a blessing. You never take time to digest and appreciate what happens to you.

The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path high above rocky ground. On one side we have the descent into animalism, on the other a godhead delusion. Both pulling at us, both tempting. But without these forces tugging at your psyche, stirring it into conflict, you can never love. They awaken us, you see, these warring sides, they arouse our passion.

It definitely gets challenging at times. I travel a lot more now, and its never easy having to leave the kids, even if its for a few days.

Sometimes kindness is wiser than truth

Three dot, a trinity, a way to map the universe, three dot.

We must know when to move on. To search too long for perfection can also paralyse.

The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning.

There is a pleasant firmness of tone when one is in harmony with oneself. Even when it's a weak ethic one is resonating with.

Nature is not a straitjacket that must be burst open. Nature is a blessing, an opportunity for growth that has been bestowed upon all living things.

if you restrict earthly things, you set up your thoughts free for the spiritual.

There's no simple arithmetic for life's distribution of happiness and sorrow, no such thing as a standard share.

But put yourself in my position and think logically, and you yourself will come to the conclusion that you cannot act differently because the number of the portion that can be saved is much larger than the part that must be surrendered.

Never base motivation or fear, entirely.

I want to be two people at once. One runs away.

To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.

The implacability and violence of nature always awed him. That it could be entirely heedless and yet so beautiful. That awed him. But also its intricate intelligence. Its balancings. Its quiet compensations. It was like some unnamed justice permeated everything. He would not go further than that. Still, the workings of nature made the voracious, self-satiating intelligence of humans seem of the lowest order, not the highest.

Rock rock. Back and forth. Lull. Push. Release. Swing back. The stars, the leaves, even the sound of the creek throbbing back and forth. Of a boat. Of a hammock. Of a child's swing. Of a womb. Back and forth. Rock rock. Smell of cold current, of stone, manure, blossom. Sleep.