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Quotes About Balance

Sometimes you need to stop fighting to stop drowning
~ Evy Michaels
After every sunny day, comes a stormy night
~ Of Monsters and Men
And we mustn't lose our sense of humor, " Mrs. Which said. "The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
You walk between gods and men. Your choices are only between despair and hope!
~ Greg Keyes, The Blackgod
Life is many things, but if you don't try to control it, it will take hold of you and ruin you.
~ Bethany Morrell
At first we hope too much later on not enough.
~ Joseph Roux
If you want to do your best for future generations of humanity, for your friends and family, you must begin by taking good care of yourself.
~ Tarthang Tulku
Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at risk of pushing the rest of life off the globe.
~ E. O. Wilson
So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other.
~ Sigmund Freud
In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
~ Paul R. Ehrlich
The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity.
~ Friedensreich Hundertwasser
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
~ Albert Einstein
The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.
~ Marilyn Manson
Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity.
~ Jane Goodall
The binding of reason and intuition is the fundamental crisis of the era we call humanity. Transcedence of duality is the key.
~ Phil Collins
Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly.
~ Frederick Lenz
The aim of development must be neither producerism not consumerism, but the satisfaction of fundamental human needs, which are not only needs of humanity...
~ Manfred Max Neef
I tell you that studying humanities in high school is more important than mathematics - mathematics is too sharp an instrument, no good for kids.
~ Stefan Banach
A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.
~ Benjamin Franklin
When you're doing fantasy, you can get so caught up in the magic of it that you lose the humanity.
~ Austin Butler
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
~ Jean Rostand
So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.
~ E. O. Wilson
Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.
~ Carol P. Christ
How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak.
~ Jean Sasson