Quotes About Balance

They were not overwhelmed with emotion, but simply whelmed

Either everyone's happy or no one is safe. But we're never happy. So we'll never be safe.

It took knowing every rock and plant and animal and fish and bird, that was the way they did it. You had to love the land the way you loved yourself. Because it was you anyway. It took knowing all the other parts of yourself so well that nothing was misunderstood or exploited.

In China the egalitarian movement came not just from Zhu's vision, but also from the Daoist ideas of balance, as Zhu would always point out. In Travancore it rose out of the Buddhist idea of compassion, in Yingzhou from the Hodenosaunee idea of the equality of all, in Firanja from the idea of justice before God.

There was scientifically supported evidence to show that if the Earth's available resources were divided up equally among all eight billion humans, everyone would be fine.

principle of mediocrity.

Fewer people, more wild animals. That feels like coming back from a time of illness. Like healing, like getting healthy. Population dynamics in play, as always. Maybe that makes us all living together in this biosphere some kind of supra-organism, who can say.

that will happen. But it's going to be all right, even for you. Enough is as good as a feast. And it's when everyone is equal that your kids are safest.

What's good is what's good for the land. Instead of working for profit, we do whatever is good for the land. Taking care of the land takes better care of the people over the long haul.

He saw that they were all working together at the first step of the species' break from the home world, and he understood that if the first step were taken successfully, with balance, they could run from star to star all across the night.

The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that is should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.

Up to a point go for quantity rather than quality. Most people would rather have two glasses of ordinary decent port than one of a rare vintage.

Any man in the company of two woman is outnumbered four to one however amiable they may be. By definition. 'So when its just you and me I outnumber you two to one, is that right?' Affirmative.

The mind must have the final say and sway over the body and not the other way round

Be good to yourself. If you don't take care of your body, where will you live?

Zuviel ist gerade so falsch wie zuwenig.

Wenn man noch nicht den Menschen dienen kann, wie sollte man den Geistern dienen können?

Yabani bir hayvan?n içgüdüselliÄŸini tetikleyen itkilerin tamam?, yaratt?klar? etki itibar?yla, her zaman için, hayvan?n ve onun ait olduÄŸu türün lehine sonuçlanma zorunluluÄŸu ta??r. Onun yaÅŸam alan?nda doÄŸal eÄŸilimler ile zorunluluklar aras?nda bir çat??k? yoktur, içten gelen her dürtü 'iyi'dir. Ä°nsanoÄŸlu bu cennetsi uyumu kaybetti.

Horses have powerful legs- but that doesn't mean they're prima ballerinas. Elianna to Mariketa.

A veces solo tienes que estar loco o triste, Evie. A veces solo tienes que dejar que suceda. Pero ponte un límite, a continuación, vuelve a ser feliz.

Bringing a strong man to his knees is simple. It's keeping him there that's the tricky business…

I'll like it more if you fight. You'll like it more if you don't.

Sometimes you just need to be mad or sad, Evie. Sometimes you just need to let it happen. But put a cap on it, then get back to happy.

In general, I tried not to take myself too seriously—I called myself "the manalyst," after all. My life's motto: Joke 'em if they can't take a fuck.