Quotes About Balance

Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.

se puede estar bebido de tantas formas como se puede estar sobrio.

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

The practical statesman took precedence over the uncompromising prophet.

Emotional Channeling Technique #2: Focus Management

Living carefree is overrated & living cautious is underrated.

But even that distress must be balanced by enthusiastic hope. It is his task always to sound the note of biblical optimism that is warranted by the promises of God. A counselor must be, above much else, a man of hope.

food for the body and food for the soul, the latter must always take precedence because it alone is absolutely essential.

Overloaded with stress, we often make expedient decisions that may not be in our long-term best interest.

utiliza la idea de tu contrincante para conseguir lo que deseas. Practica el jiu-jitsu retórico empleando los movimientos de tu rival para hacerle perder el equilibrio.

We each carry a measure of grace, and we each carry a measure of evil. There is never enough grace to banish the evil, and there is never enough evil to smother the grace.

The plan was to create a agrarian buffer between the rapidly enveloping towers of New York and Brooklyn.

You never stopped thinking of yourself as a writer biding his time in the Department of Factual Verification. But between the job and the life there wasn't much time left over for emotion recollected in tranquillity.

Yes, eros and agape are different, but the stifling of the former leads to a distortion of the latter.

Confucius said the doctrine of the mean was the highest virtue, and rare among men. The Buddhists call it the middle way. Aristotle saw moderation as the essence of virtue. I say moderation in all things, even moderation.

Just because you're a slave to your lover in the bedroom doesn't mean you have to be a slave to him in the rest of your life.

Because they are living creatures and that means they have to work to stay alive. Staying alive always has a dark side.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

It was Sophie who, by the example of her work and her life, both of them bathed in clarity, showed me the right way. In her world, the high and the low, the light and the dark, the eternal and the ephemeral, are balanced in prefect equilibrium.

You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The world is getting denser. The immense number of useless projects is bewildering. Too many things have to be put in to balance up an uncertain scale. You can't disappear anymore. You die in a state of total indecision.