Quotes About Balance

So why not care for that side of you, where you and the gods are equals?

It betrays a lack of an interior life when a person is overly focused on bodily things—whether indulging in food and drink, exercising to exhaustion, or spending excessive time on grooming. Care for your body as needed, but put your main energies and efforts into cultivating your mind.

Whatever is enough is abundant in the eyes of virtue.

Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

We have two ears and one mouth-so that we can listen twice as much as we speak

When you attend the games, do not get emotionally invested in the rivalry. Wish only that the best team or athlete wins. Avoid the extremes of elation at a win and devastation at a loss.

it is no easy feat to hold onto your inner harmony while collecting accolades. When grasping for one, you are likely to drop the other.

If you are praised by others, be skeptical of yourself. For it is no easy feat to hold onto your inner harmony while collecting accolades. When grasping for one, you are likely to drop the other.

If reason tells you a pleasure is wholesome and harmless, you may enjoy it in moderation. But take care not to let your happiness gradually become dependent on it.

Bade round the youth explosive steam aspire, In gathering clouds, and wing'd the wave with fire; Bade with cold streams the quick expansion stop, And sunk the immense of vapour to a drop.- Press'd by the ponderous air the Piston falls Resistless, sliding through its iron walls; Quick moves the balanced beam, of giant-birth, Wields his large limbs, and nodding shakes the earth.

Too little of it is no better than too much

The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's, Is — not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be — but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair & the word fair can be taken in both senses — it means both beautiful and just.

Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self.

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good.

He made himself comfortable on his back and I climbed him, straddled his face . . . and leaned toward the headboard so I could keep my balance and stay in control, so I wouldn't fall on his nose.

Wisdom was knowing what to do. Skill was the ability to do it.Virtue was doing it. When wisdom didn't subdue anger, anger destroyed everything.

The only time I can get the thoughts to stop is when I get lost in something very creative and puzzle-like—and then I only get lost briefly. This way of life is exhausting

People who are accomplished at anything have learned that "perfect" is the enemy of the good.

Writer's block comes from one's wanting only to write good stuff. Well, the good stuff and the bad stuff are all part of the stuff. No good stuff without bad stuff.

If you disattend to your body (Step 1), this creates a disconnection within your body and between your body and the environment (Step 2), promoting disregulation in the body (Step 3), which would be measured as disorder in the system (Step 4), and be experienced as disease (Step 5).

In a word, connection leads to order and ease; disconnection leads to disorder and disease.