Quotes About Balance

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

Therefore, the more technological the world becomes, the more essential will be the demand for individual freedom and the self-awareness of the individual human being as a counterpoise to technology…. Consequently this trial must contribute to laying down the ground rules for life in human society. What does my own fate signify, after all that has happened and in comparison with so important a goal?

Pero así es el mundo, inversamente proporcional a las necesidades y deseos de uno.

Ambos quieren un pedazo de mí. Y mientras más quieren, menos les doy.

Viajar es en realidad tan simple como vivir. Si en cualquier momento de nuestra existencia nos detenemos a mirar hacia atrás y hacer un balance - un balance en verdad honesto -, la mayor parte de las veces no deberíamos sentirnos satisfechos de lo que esa vida nos ha deparado; pero si nos limitamos a aceptar lo que nuestra memoria quiere ofrecernos, entonces merece la pena seguir adelante.

Cuenta una vieja tradición que «las palmeras suelen tener la cabeza en el fuego y los pies en el agua»,...

There's an old Cherokee tale in which a man tells his grandson, "There are two wolves fighting within me. One of them is angry and hateful, the other is generous and compassionate." When the boy asks, "Which one will win, Grandpa?" the old man answers, "The one I feed.

Aber keine semantische Ordnung kann allein auf solchen Binarismen beruhen, weil neben den festen immer auch bewegliche, ihren Platz im Feld wechselnde Elemente notwendig sind, um überhaupt Ordnung in der Zeit herzustellen.

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

There are two sides to any argument. Does one side always have all the answers? Give it some thought.

Harmony with the land is like harmony with a friend. You cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say you cannot have game and hate predators. The land is one organism.

The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land health is yet to be born.

To keep every cog and every wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

A thing is right if it tends to preserve the stability, integrity, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong if it tends otherwise.

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important that television.

We face the question whether a still higher standard of living is worth its costs in things natural, wild, and free.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators... The land is one organism.

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, the stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.