Quotes About Balance

Like watermen, who look astern while they row the boat ahead.

Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.

For it may happen to the commonwealth, as to the serpent in the fable, whose tail, rising in rebellion against the head, complained, as of a great grievance, that it was always forced to follow, and required that it should be permitted by turns to lead the way. And taking the command accordingly, it soon inflicted , by its senseless courses, mischiefs in abundance upon itself, while the head was torn and lacerated with following, contrary to nature, a guide that was deaf and blind.

Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

The moral is to not set yourself goals which don't leave you any freedom to maneuver.

It didn't matter if you were rich or poor, black or white, healthy or ill. Across every cohort, controlling for all variables, if you had "a sense of purpose" you stayed healthy, and if you didn't have a sense of purpose, you didn't stay healthy. It was more powerful for your health than exercising every day. It was more important than smoking or drinking. It was pretty much the strongest determinator of your future health.

You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.

At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.

Sometimes you get tempted to make something wonderful even better but in doing so you lose what was so wonderful to begin with.

Simple living high thinking..!!

A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

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

If you want peace, work for justice.

Any day of the week I would choose to be "out" with others and in touch with myself... then to be "in" with others and out of touch with myself.

This business of Chaos versus Law, for example, turned out to be more than religious dogma. It was a practical fact of existence, here.

Hey, take it easy, lover boy. Sex and mathematics don't mix. Or hadn't you heard?

Well, I tell you, my friend, economics is not all there is to life.