Quotes About Balance

One must travel all the way to the center. To know and hate evil is one path to knowing good.

She is intelligent, tanjit! She's just never been hurt!......All you've got to do is watch her walk. Clumsy. Every second, it looks like she's going to fall over. But she doesn't. She doesn't knock things over with her elbows. She doesn't spill things or drop things. She never did. She never learned not to, don't you see? So she's not graceful.

Desire isn't necessarily a bad thing, but we need to see how pervasive and driven this whole tendency is, and bring some balance to it, so that we give ourselves some choices.

I live the perfect imperfect life. -Paul Lore

Dr. King's fitting description of the good life, 'a creative synthesis of opposites.'

The overall intent is to make everyone sufficiently happy (or in some cases, insufficiently unhappy).

The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other

It's not so much

Norwegian way of keeping all our earthly affairs from achieving too much importance.

Deputy sheriff." He looked down at his shirt as though he expected to see his badge there. "Which I owe to your granddad and your dad. You know what your granddad said it means to be a peace officer in Montana? He said it means knowing when to look and when to look away. Took me a while to learn that.

O ser humano, esse estranho animal, balançando entre animal e esperança.

Maybe this only had to be as big as I let it be. So why was I letting it be everything?

Fate suggests no agency. Synchronization is all about agency. It involves all systems running in a state where different parts of the system are almost, if not precisely, ready.

This is the thing about good and evil. They aren't so far apart—and they often start from the same valiant

If you're not careful, you run out of time.

ever managing to do it at the same time. You can't always do it at the same time, but you have to be able to sometimes. Because, ultimately, wasn't being good at it, together, the most important part?

Para a mesa e para a cama, uma só vez se chama.

La vida siempre nos ofrece dos posibilidades: el día y la noche; el águila o la serpiente, la construcción o la destrucción, el castigo o el perdón, pero siempre hay una tercera posibilidad oculta que unifica a las dos: descúbrela. Después

Que baile, que ría, que nada le impida galopar hasta la locura, que los ladridos de los perros no detengan su andar, que nunca tenga que elegir entre amar o vivir.

Si primero es lo primero, el amor va antes que nada. Y si primero es el deber y luego el placer, amar es nuestro deber y placer. No hay nada antes ni más allá que el amor.

Remember karma: the fruit you harvest grows from the seeds you plant.

A good horseman always takes care of his horses before he eats or rests.

Father always maintained that a man would do more work in twelve hours, if he had a rest and all the egg-nog he could drink, morning and afternoon.

Just how much renunciation of desire does society demand of us versus the degree of gratification it provides?