Quotes About Balance

Make understanding people a fun game, the solving of puzzles. It is all part of the human comedy. Yes, people are irrational, but so are you. Make your acceptance of human nature as radical as possible. This will calm you down and help you observe people more dispassionately, understanding them on a deeper level. You will stop projecting your own emotions on to them. All of this will give you more balance and calmness, more mental space for thinking.

by embracing the full picture of themselves, their self-love is more real and complete. From this stronger inner position, they can turn their attention outward more often and more easily. This attention goes in one of two directions, and sometimes both.

Las ostras se abren por completo en luna llena; y cuando el cangrejo ve una, arroja en ella una piedra o alga marina y la ostra no puede volver a cerrarse, así que sirve de alimento al cangrejo. Tal es el destino de quien abre demasiado la boca y se pone de ese modo a merced del oyente. LEONARDO DA VINCI, 1452-1519

In some people the rider is too strong, holds the reins too tightly, and is afraid to occasionally let the animal go into a gallop.

the problem about working with friends is that it confuses the boundaries and distances that working requires.

It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause but yourself.

Napoleón: cubrir tu mano de hierro con un guante de terciopelo.

Anger and emotion are strategically counterproductive. You must always stay calm and objective. But if you can make your enemies angry while staying calm yourself, you gain a decided advantage. Put your enemies off-balance: Find the chink in their vanity through which you can rattle them and you hold the strings.

A veces puedes lograr más no haciendo nada.

Keep in mind that there are generally more extroverts than introverts in the world.

Everything in nature has a structure, a way that the parts relate to one another, which is generally fluid and not so easy to conceptualize.

Hurrying betrays a lack of control over yourself, and over time.

For each weakness there is a corresponding strength.

The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

An excess of simplicity, after all, was just another form of ostentation, and pride in one's humility a sin.

every time you fill an appointment, you make one man grateful and ten resentful.

I fear there is in all men who achieve their life's ambition only a narrow line between dignity and vanity, confidence and delusion, glory and self-destruction

there is in all men who achieve their life's ambition only a narrow line between dignity and vanity, confidence and delusion, glory and self-destruction.

TANSTAAFL There ain't no such thing as a free lunch) by Robert Heinlein from his book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Law, lastly, stands between politics and morality.

It takes numerous encounters with positive people to offset the energy and happiness sapped by a single episode with one asshole.

The achiever is usually in an internal struggle. He struggles against what he believes and what he thinks he must do to make himself feel good. The trick in our lives is to get the two together. An internal sense of worth is just as important to the healthy man as an external sense of worth. However, it takes a healthy man to realize this.

Relax, lad. Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

Take what you want, and pay for it.