Quotes About Balance

It has been shown that public participation can limit powerful interest groups, while competing interests can help find a reasonable balance between development and environmental protection.

So whether you do your first downward dog at 14 or 44, it's not your history but your presence on your mat that counts.

The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder.

[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.

The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate.

Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.

History must not be written with bias, and both sides must be given, even if there is only one side.

all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.

Since Eve negotiated Adam, I am the most disadvantaged negotiator in history of mankind. I have no army, no navy, no air force, no economy.

I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.

Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history.

This is not a museum of tragedy. It is not the museum of difficult moments. It is the museum that says -here is a balanced history of America that allows us to cry and smile.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.

Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.

The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home.

Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room before you save the world. Then save the world.

The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.