Quotes About Balance

It is, but a virtue taken to extremes is a vice. If one does not understand there are things more important than the truth one doesn't understand how important the truth is.

en eso consiste la vida civilizada: en aprender a convivir de manera razonable con la frustración.

Hacer política consiste en ceder en lo accesorio para no ceder en lo esencial.

Socialization depends on both autonomy and interdependency; emphasizing one at the expense of the other compromises the balance.

Trying to talk about both topics simultaneously is like mixing your apple pie and your lasagna into one pan and throwing it in the oven. No matter how long you bake it, it's going to come out a mess.

I wonder if we can work to find a creative way to meet both interests here. What do you think? Are you willing to try?

After observing O Sensei, the founder of Aikido, sparring with an accomplished fighter, a young student said to the master, "You never lose your balance. What is your secret?" "You are wrong," O Sensei replied. "I am constantly losing my balance. My skill lies in my ability to regain it.

Living in the answer, while forgetting the question that gave birth to it, will cause the answer to become mechanical, habitual, or dispirited. Conversely, living only in the question can lead to confusing or debilitating uncertainty and ambiguity. We need both.

So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.

One Master and one apprentice; one to embody the power, the other to crave it

Two there should be; no more, no less. One to embody the power, the other to crave it. The Rule of Two.

Equality is a myth to protect the weak

There must only be two, No more and no less

Two there should be; no more, no less. One to embody the power, the other to crave it. The Rule of Two. This

Nature abhors a vacuum;

The Force always strives for balance. The Emperor is an agent of darkness and destruction. It is inevitable that a champion of the light will one day rise to oppose him. I may be that champion. - Revan

What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.

We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

Because we are limited in our knowledge, even the sanest of us are slightly insane. Our limitations are a kind of madness, and we can only choose to deny we are mad, and so descend into a dark spiral of total insanity, or accept we are mad and embark on a quest to regain our true and wholesome sanity

I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.