Quotes About Balance

Two there shall be; no more, no less. One to embody the dark side, the other to crave it.

Working to make everybody equal didn't leave much chance for anyone to achieve greatness.

He no longer clung to the simplistic ideals of right and wrong or good and evil. He understood better than anyone that dark and light were intertwined in strange and complex ways.

If all are equal, then none is strong.

she lets us see, she lets us think, she lets us feel, that we can get to a position where we do not have to struggle, we do not have to choose, and that there are ways of being in the world that allow us, in the same breath, to live in our domestic ordinariness and still create.

Das Dao liebt nicht Geschäftigkeit. Geschäftigkeit führt zu Überlastung; Überlastung führt zu Unruhe; Unruhe führt zu Sorgen, und mit Sorgen ist man rettungslos verloren.

On war-torn land streams flow and mountains stand

Too much emotion is like none at all.

In Hawaii, we have something called Ho'oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance.

Most of life is a matter of nonessential differences.

The captain was not the tip of a pyramid, as most people thought; in fact it was just the reverse: he was the spindle on which everything else balanced.

infinite growth on a finite planet

Customers first, employees second, and shareholders third.

Birds of a feather flock together, but opposites attract. Absence indeed makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight is out of mind. Look before you leap, but he who hesitates is lost.

I'm part ocean, part mountain. Maybe that's why I love California.

He who undertakes too much seldom succeeds.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

What's wrong with extreme dieting and hard-core fitness plans is that they don't take into account the rest of your life.

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

Exercise not only tones the muscles, but also refines the brain and revives the soul.

I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.

Life is filled with problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. Sometimes it helps to know which is which.