Quotes About Balance

A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

Os gregos substituíram o Yang e o Yin por humores. O sangue, o muco, a bile amarela e a negra, a saúde dependia da harmonia disso tudo num dado momento. O médico mais importante era Galeno (c. 132-200 d.C.). Ele era um homem autoritário, com resposta pra tudo e, desse modo, estabeleceu o padrão e personalidade para nossa profissão.

Viewed as a whole, a forest radiates beauty, serenity and safety. Viewed from within, misplaced focus reaps the fabricated chaos of trees.

How many wild animals can be sustainably killed for the many millions of pets that people keep?

In complex situations, the Just Maximize Choices mantra is not enough to create good policy.

No more than 25 percent of the guests at a university dinner party can come from the economics department without spoiling the conversation.

No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up.

The Golden Mean was considered a fundamental constant by the Egyptians and the fundamental division of the whole into two parts.

Schwaller de Lubicz identifies the Golden Mean as "the fundamental scission," or division of one into two, that creates three things - the original whole and two parts, one in golden proportion to the whole and the other in golden proportion to that.

Lao Tse told them to relax and learn from the life of a plant. It doesn't have to be told how to do its thing. It follows its nature.

No society can work unless its members feel responsibilities as well as rights.

You know your Bible too well and life too little.

quality of life isn't measured only by what we gain, but also by what we trade for it.

and old Indian saying: 'It's better to know one mountain than to climb many.

Man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; [the Lakota] knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too. —LUTHER STANDING BEAR (C. 1868–1939)

This principle holds that a reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.

Why do so many Americans say they want their children to watch less TV, yet continue to expand the opportunities for them to watch it? More important, why do so many people no longer consider the physical world worth watching?

What would our lives be like if our days and nights were as immersed in nature as they are in technology?

Not that it was unjust; not that the scales were forced out of balance. Where there had been good, it showed as clearly. Kindnesses, accomplishments, all those were present, too.

Very well then! I'll write, write write. He let the words soak into his mind and displace all else. A man had a choice, after all. He devoted his life to his work or to his wife and children and home. It could not be combined; not in this day and age. In this insane world where God was second to income and goodness to wealth.

But it's so hard to make things simple and so easy to make them complicated.

For everything in life, there's a counterpart in afterlife. This includes the most beautiful as well as the ugliest of phenomena.

And that is to say, of course, that you can read a culture without its literature, without the bother of gathering and holding its ideas, considering their genesis and evolution, and weighing them in the balance with each other.

Stay sane inside insanity.