Quotes About Balance

i will admit there's a certain degree of giving a fuck that goes into not giving a fuck. by saying you don't care if the world falls apart, in some small way you're saying you want it to stay together, on your terms.

i will admit there's a certain degree of giving a fuck that goes into not giving a fuck. by saying you don't care if the world falls apart, in some small way you're saying you want it to stay together, on your terms.

Where a bad tree thrives, a good tree will flourish. But where no tree at all can be found, nothing will grow.

David Foster Wallace: Now, if I don't develop some machinery for being able to turn off pure unalloyed pleasure, and allow myself to go out and, you know, grocery shop and pay the rent? I don't know about you, but I'm gonna have to leave the

David Foster Wallace: Now, if I don't develop some machinery for being able to turn off pure unalloyed pleasure, and allow myself to go out and, you know, grocery shop and pay the rent? I don't know about you, but I'm gonna have to leave the planet.

Thomas believes he has done a fine job of remaining sane the past weeks, but it has been a taxing day, and surely no one would blame him if he simply went mad. Lamentably, going mad will have to wait.

We are all driven by our passions, and our task is to know when to submit to them and when to resist.

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life's the other way round.

Reciprocity is not mandatory.

Forget calories. Focus on quality. Let your body do the rest.

Let's get rid of the suffering and bring real peace, which is not just the absence of war, but the absence of all negativity.

If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience.

The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.

God has arranged everything in the universe in consideration of everything else.

God put enough into the world to make faith in Him a reasonable thing. But He left enough out to make it impossible to live by reason alone.

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

Either you will have harmony with God and friction with people, or you will have harmony with people and friction with God.

God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.

God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.

God designed the stomach to eject what is bad for it, but not the human brain.

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

There's a major fault in Western society. It makes room for only one god, and in only one gender. There's no balance, no co-existence, no partnership.

It is the loss of the feminine counterpart of God that causes the wound that never heals.