Quotes About Balance

The greatest care is taken to prevent you from loving anyone too much.

Organized and balanced disunity is the necessary condition of liberty.

Nature is as incomprehensibly appalling as it is lovely and bountiful.

Too much tension is a disease; but so is too little. There are certain occasions when we ought to be tense, when an excess of tranquility (and especially of tranquility imposed from the outside, by a chemical) is entirely inappropriate.

If you want nature to treat you well, you must treat nature well. If you start destroying nature, nature will destroy you, and this basic moral precept is fundamental in our present knowledge of ecology and conservation. What we know now about ecology points to the fact that nature exists in the most delicate balance, and that anything which tends to upset the balance will produce consequences of the most unexpected character and often of the most disastrous character.

No podemos permitir que la ciencia destruya su propia obra. Por esto limitamos tan escrupulosamente el alcance de sus investigaciones.

Entelektüel aç?dan ve çal??ma saatleri süresince yetiÅŸkiniz, duygu ve arzular söz konusu olduÄŸundaysa çocukça davran?yoruz.

Pero, aunque indispensable, la organización también puede ser fatal. La organización excesiva transforma a hombres y mujeres en autómatas, sofoca el espíritu creador y suprime la misma posibilidad de la libertad.

The optimum population,' said Mustapha Mond, 'is modelled on the iceberg-eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

Picture yourself on a surfboard. Once you find your balance, loosen your grip. Breathe. Accept that no matter how good you think you are, you will fall. Again and again. - We take pictures not only to see, but to be seen; not only to remember, but to be remembered. But when you are surfing, it's best to forget about the people on the beach.

When burdened by the feeling that there are too many photographs in the world, I ask myself if there are too many flowers.

The Great Work is the uniting of opposites. It may mean the uniting of the soul with God, of the microcosm with the macrocosm, of the female with the male, of the ego with the non-ego—or what not.

Remember that unbalanced force is evil; that unbalanced severity is but cruelty and oppression; but that also unbalanced mercy is but weakness which would allow and abet Evil. Act passionately; think rationally; be Thyself.

The two seem, at first glance, to be opposed, but when you have advanced a little in both, you find that concentration learned in Yoga is of immense use in attaining the mental powers necessary in Magick; on the other hand, the discipline of Magick is of the greatest service in Yoga.

40. My adepts stand upright; their head above the heavens, their feet below the hells. 41. But since one is naturally attracted to the Angel, another to the Demon, let the first strengthen the lower link, the last attach more firmly to the higher.

doubt is a good servant but a bad master; a perfect mistress, but a nagging wife.

Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy and wealthy and wise: But late to watch and early to pray Brings him across The Abyss, they say.

For when all is equilibrated, when all is beheld from without all, there is joy, joy, joy that is but one facet of a diamond, every other facet whereof is more joyful than joy itself.

Duality begat the Conjunction.

La Naturaleza es más de la mitad del arte.

Te equivocas si crees que no hacer es vivir mejor. No, no hacer es vivir menos.

Fue la casualidad. O quizá no, quizá fue más sencillo que eso. Quizá fue simplemente que a veces la vida nos quita cosas y otras, cuando menos creemos necesitarlo, decide cuidarnos, fiel a una ley de la compensación que no responde a la física ni a la química, sino a un orden que nadie ha sabido explicar todavía.

Geese were orderly beings, with principles and systems, whose existence denied all superiority of individual over individual of the same species (176).

Se sei una conchiglia, è importante l'ordine. Se sei guscio e animale, tutto deve essere perfetto. L'esattezza ti salverà.