Quotes About Balance

A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders.

No social stability without individual stability.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.

We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.

Society's needs come before the individuals needs

There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more.

Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.

Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.

Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.

Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.

The union of opposites, in so far as they are really complementary, always results in the most perfect harmony; and the seemingly incongruous is often the most natural.

For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless.

Rigidity of order is the artefact and sediment of the human agents ' freedom.

El ménàge à quatre (o six, huit, etc., cuantos más sean mejor) está a salvo de todas las pestes y deficiencias que, como sabemos, son la ruina del ménage à trois.

For one to be free there must be at least two.

Mortal life is too short to be worried all the time.

When we blend courage and compassion, assertiveness and gentleness, our essential strength and kindness support us in being where we are.

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

The reeds give way to the wind and give the wind away

Equilibrations If you walk back and forth through a puddle pretty soon you wet the whole driveway but of course dry the puddle up.