Quotes About Balance

All free governments must consist of two councils, a lesser and greater; or, in other words, of a senate and people. The people . . . would want wisdom, without the senate: The Senate, without the people, would want honesty.

He is happy, whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances.

Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.

Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the Good and the Bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

This ´world´ began to forget it was Oneness, like a dream forgetting it is the dreamer. With this amnesia came the phenomenon we call fear, an expression of All Possibility that cannot manifest within the balance of Oneness. Fear only comes with the illusion of division and separation when consciousness perceives itself as part and not the whole. Fear is the shadow of illusory disconnection.

Love in the context of Infinite Love is the balance of all. Infinite 'Love' is also Infinite Intelligence, Infinite Knowing, Infinite Everything. Thus, it is and it isn't; it is everywhere and nowhere, everything and nothing. It is All Possibility in perfect balance.

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim

Our bodies are an expression of our minds, emotions, and spirit.

Awal zaan resto jahan. First yourself, then the universe.

To the west, upriver, was the compact epicenter of national government: Congress, the civilian agencies, the White House, the monuments and museums, all arranged symmetrically as if the federal establishment were a formal garden. The president was weak, it was universally believed; the Congress was enfeebled by partisan divisions; it was as if the balance wheel had broken and the real work of the government had stopped, but the garden remained immaculate.

Providing a good work/life balance will make your company a more attractive employer in your local market.

It's good business to provide a good work/life balance by never overloading your teams.

First, how could I protect my team from the incessant demands of the business and achieve what the Agile community now refers to as a "sustainable pace"?

You need slack to enable continuous improvement. You need to balance demand against throughput and limit the quantity of work-in-progress to enable slack.

When a particular measure is used as an indicator of the performance of a system, people may choose to target that measure, improving its value but at the cost of other aspects of the system.

I've never felt better. I've never been healthier…. I run four or five miles, four or five times a week, but I broke both my legs running too much last summer. I had stress fractures in both my tibias from running too much. You know, once you're an addict, you're always an addict, so just because I found something good to do doesn't mean I'm not going to hurt myself doing it.

A drop of concentrated salt water placed on a rat's tongue causes immediate decreases in the production of urine in order to retain water and maintain salt and water balance of body fluids.

Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought to be. But no matter what political or religious direction such idealists choose, their visions always share one telling characteristic: in their utopias, heavens or brave new worlds, their greatest personal weakness suddenly appears to be a strength.

In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that they're vastly outnumbered by blessings.

He thought it disproportionate in its violence considering the fragility of us.

Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand-the one doing the important job-unnoticed.

Maturity is when you accept the fact that two contradictory ideas can exist together.

Sometimes, we want the best for our kids, and we push too hard. We keep aloof from them or we pressure them too much, we hide from them or we grab them with both arms. Either way we run the risk of pushing them out the door, of teaching them the wrong lessons, and of turning them into men we wouldn't want them to be.