Quotes About Balance

Their whole difficult lives seemed not to weigh on them at all. Taken as mornings and meals, suppers and evenings, all of the world could be carried, both the sad and the delicious, their lives seemed to say.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

It's not tyranny we desire it's a just, limited, federal government.

We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

The pains taken to preserve peace include a proportional responsibility that equal pains be taken to be prepared for war.

In proportion as I discover the worthlessness of other pursuits, the value of my Eliza and of domestic happiness rises in my estimation.

To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.

They formed it almost as soon as they had a political existence; nay, at a time when their habitations were in flames, when many of their citizens were bleeding, and when the progress of hostility and desolation left little room for those calm and mature inquiries and reflections which must ever precede the formation of a wise and well-balanced government for a free people.

all extremes are pernicious in various ways.

Would it have been an improvement of the plan, to have united the Supreme Court with the Senate, in the formation of the court of impeachments? This union would certainly have been attended with several advantages; but would they not have been overbalanced by the signal disadvantage, already stated, arising from the agency of the same judges in the double prosecution to which the offender would be liable?

however inclined we might be to insist upon an unbounded complaisance in the Executive to the inclinations of the people, we can with no propriety contend for a like complaisance to the humors of the legislature. The latter may sometimes stand in opposition to the former, and at other times the people may be entirely neutral. In either supposition, it is certainly desirable that the Executive should be in a situation to dare to act his own opinion with vigor and decision.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has d——d few virtues. Good-day.

The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the 'action generation' whose motto is 'do more but feel less.

A tree grows taller to the degree that its roots go deeper and wider. If we wish to jump high, we must first bend close to the ground to get the impetus for the spring. Like a jet engine, we move forward by thrusting backward. In therapy each backward move provides the energy for the leap forward. Regression and progression go on side by side.

Wisdom is balance, and a three-legged stance (old man), like a three-legged stool, offers the best balance. When one has become older, one knows that doing is valid only when it enhances being and that thinking makes sense only if it stems from feeling.

Two factors are important one is an ego that is weak or insecure. . The other factor is a flood of feeling that cannot be integrated by the ego.

Mabel Elsworth Todd,The Thinking Body,

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably haven't read them.

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease

Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale,Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs,And solid pudding against empty praise.

Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell,For sober, studious days!