Quotes About Balance

There is an ancient conversation going on between mosses and rocks, poetry to be sure. About light and shadow and the drift of continents. This is what has been called the dialect of moss on stone - an interface of immensity and minute ness, of past and present, softness and hardness, stillness and vibrancy, yin and yan.

What but the wolf's tooth whittled so fine. The fleet limbs of the antelope?

The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you choose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many.

We laugh, that we may not cry.

A society no more exists for the satisfaction of human needs, than a plant exists for its own health.

The Anglo-American tradition of constitutional thinking should be understood in this way, as addressing the question of how to limit the power of government, without losing its benefits. That

Conservatism as we know it today is a distinctively modern outlook, shaped by the Enlightenment and by the emergence of societies in which the 'we' of social membership is balanced at every point against the 'I' of individual ambition.

The pursuit of absolute or ideal beauty may distract us from the more urgent business of getting things right. It is well and good for philosophers, poets and theologians to point towards beauty in its highest form. But for most of us it is far more important to achieve order in the things surrounding us, and to ensure that the eyes, the ears and the sense of fittingness are not repeatedly offended.

Personal feelings don't make for good politics, legal decisions, or business deals.

While sex heads a great number of lists, we all have other things we like to do in between.

You are of that tribe with your feet in hell and your head in heaven.

The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown....To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three.

Being a god is the quality of being able to be yourself to such an extent that your passions correspond with the forces of the universe, so that

Really. It can't be as bad as all that," she said. "Bad? Good and evil are always mixed up. It provides order.

But it is written that it is better to burn one city than to curse the darkness.

The nearby Hopis danced and prayed for rain. His people did not. They sought to live with their environment rather than to control it.

things sort of equal to equal things sort of being equal to each other, it didn't much seem to matter.

The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three.

You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it's all a question of balance.

The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.

the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair

You cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair

The secret of survival is to embrace change and to adapt. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fester and grow like fungus on unrefrigerated food? Vasantrao Valmik the proofreader would say it was all part of living, that the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair, to embrace change. But embrace misery and destruction?