Quotes About Balance

I'm really happy with my life now, but there's a lot of stuff I feel very sad about in ways I can't even control.

I'm sad, but I'm laughing.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.

What goes up must come down.

All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.

To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.

Perfect typography is more a science than an art.

It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.

A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.

There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Science and art are not opposed.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should also be to some extent elegant in themselves.

Research cannot be forced very much. There is always danger of too much foliage and too little fruit.

The Truly Healthy environment is not merely safe but stimulating.

Health has its science, as well as disease.

One hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must consume 27 million grasshoppers that live off of 1,000 tons of grass.

When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.

Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.

I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.