Quotes About Balance

Serce ma swoje racje, o których nic nie wie rozum - Pascal

Earlier in this century someone claimed that we work at our play and play at our work. Today the confusion has deepened: we worship our work, work at our play, and play in our worship.

Passion is a far better prioritizer than any organization system. Soul refreshment comes from SEEING glory – not getting stuff done.

How does one balance the fallen and redeemed aspects of life in the artistic portrayal of human experience in the world?

No se puede dar la felicidad a los individuos, y menos todavía a las sociedades! Cada sociedad ha de seguir su propio camino, subir de manera natural los peldaños del progreso y deberse a sí misma todo el bien y el mal que consigue.

The Republic is based on the assumption that there is a strict parallelism between the city and the soul.

If there are 3 girls in a class with 11 boys those 3 girls may feel like they don't belong and no amount of preaching about gender equity is going to change that. But if the class is just girls you may get more girls to sign up and the girls will be more comfortable and will likely gain more competence.

Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Live a balanced life—learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.

The right brain is better than the left in perceiving space and making judgments as to balance, harmony, and the composition of gestalts, from which we make aesthetic distinctions between ugly and beautiful.

We all need the pendulum swing of snatching spaces of solitude and serving tables of sociability. In fact, the more plugged in and connected we are, the more we need to unplug and disconnect. A world of presence needs a time of absence.

Water is the driving force in nature.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep

The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance

La semplicità è la sofisticazione finale.

Hari yang dilewatkan dengan baik, akan menghasilkan tidur yang nyenyak.

Priroda nikada ne krši svoje zakone.

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death

E veramente accade che sempre dove manca la ragione suppliscono le grida[...]

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Quelli che s'innamorano della pratica senza la scienza, sono come i nocchieri che entrano in naviglio senza timone o bussola, che mai hanno certezza dove si vadano. Sempre la pratica dev'essere edificata sopra la buona teorica, della quale la prospettiva è guida e porta, e senza questa nulla si fa bene.

As a well-spent day brings a happy sleep, so a well-employed life brings a happy death.