Quotes About Balance

Sometimes you have to be satisfied just to know that cobra venom is deadly. It's not always efficacious to study the snake face to face. You have to balance what you might learn against the known chance of getting bit.

to be fully human is tying together the heart and the head, and by doing this, we can be more aware of the threads that connect us.

A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

A world with one month is a world of equality.

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

In the heart of darkness, a flower blossoms, enriching the shadows with its promise of hope... In the fields of light, an adder coils, and the radiant tranquility is lent savor by its sinister presence. Right and wrong, black and white, good and evil...all my existence I have looked from one to the other, fully embracing neither one...never before have I understood how much they depend on each other.

For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

It is the duty of a judge to do justice, but it is only the people who can be just

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

impasse implies that we're evenly matched. But we all know that's not true.

Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul.

Aqua Quorum

Let's never forget that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear, that the opposite may also be true.

But our desks were never meant to be our altars.

In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.

The kind of self-image we may be best advised to seek, then, is not of ourselves as beautiful winners (as we are often told we should), but one wherein our strengths and weaknesses are realistically appraised with neither self-aggrandisement nor abnegation, and our share of inevitable failings looked upon with kindness and good humour.

Alan Watts, who gave us the image of trying to wrap up water with string, made the point that it is absurd to work at something you don't enjoy, purely to make more money to be able to live longer and continue doing something you don't like.

Now for Heavens sake go to bed. Dont worry about how it was done just go straight to bed. Leave the washing-up and get into bed fully clothed. If any of you want to know how any of it was done, please feel free to write in to me at my home address which will come up on the screen in a moment and I will give you a full and honest explanation of anything you may ask.

The danger with our commitment to the principle of racial equality is that it leads us to confuse tactics with principles. The principle of gaining equal educational opportunity for black children was and is right. But our difficulties came when we viewed racial balance and busing as the only means of achieving that goal.

You may come to believe that the world cannot survive without your interference, while the truth is that the world cannot survive your arrogant interference.

Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels.

We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system.

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.