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Quotes About Balance

We have turned away from the natural world. Instead, it's all about money and power.
~ Jane Goodall
A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.
~ Pierre Corneille
The navel center will bring the power of all three of the lower chakras into your being, but with safety.
~ Frederick Lenz
We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world.
~ Bill Russell
He who has great power should use it lightly.
~ Seneca
Power without abuse loses its charm.
~ Paul Valery
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
~ Francis Bacon
Who are we to create a heaven and hell for ourselves, excluding animals and plants in the bargain, just because we have the power to rationalize?
~ Mark Twain
We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature.
~ John Adams
Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of law.
~ Fredrik Bajer
Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
~ Bjork
Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.
~ Alberto Salazar
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
~ Edmund Burke
Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and private force.
~ Anthony de Jasay
It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.
~ William James
Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
~ Thucydides
Responsibility without power is a really bad deal.
~ Patrick Califia
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
~ Will Durant
You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough
~ Wendell Berry
First with the head, then with the heart.
~ Bryce Courtenay
A strong brand is the only thing that can tip the balance of power between distributors and a manufacturer back into the manufacturer's favor.
~ David F. D'Alessandro
Didn't Gandalf say "With great power comes great responsibility"? (If it wasn't Gandalf, maybe it was Thomas Jefferson. Or Spider-Man's uncle.)
~ Tom Angleberger