Quotes About Balance

If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.

studies show that the world's climate has been unusually stable for the past 10,000 years- exactly the lifetime of agriculture and civilization....Steady warming will be bad enough, but the worst outcome would be a sudden overturning of the Earth's climactic balance - back to it's old regime of sweats and chills. If that happens, crops will fail everywhere and the great experiment of civilization will come to a catastrophic end.

When the prey of the sabre-toothed cat died out, so did the cat.

la clave está en el equilibrio entre el porcentaje de desapego y el de sentimiento, en lograr cierta armonía entre el yo que sufre y el yo que controla.

Por eso sus obras policiacas (setenta y nueve novelas, diecinueve piezas de teatro) son mundos circulares perfectamente explicables, juegos matemáticos para alivio no sólo de la cabeza sino del corazón, universos previsibles en donde el bien y el mal ocupan lugares prefijados.

Madurez: atisbo de entendimiento del mundo y de uno mismo, intuición del equilibrio de las cosas. Acercamiento entre la razón y el corazón. Conocimiento de los propios deseos y los propios miedos.

Qui plus est, le bonheur est minimaliste. Il est simple et dépouillé. C'est un presque rien qui fait tout.

I think 'slow writing' is the answer when the feeling of burn out threatens, something akin to the 'slow food' movement. Anxiety and panic are counterproductive to the creative process.

You mustn't think so far ahead. Just think about tomorrow, and then take one thing at a time.

Sessizce, Cambazlar bir kez ipin üzerinde dengede durdular m?, kalabal?k yaln?zca onlar?n düÅŸmelerini bekler, dedi.

and Pao Yi was reminded that the inclination of almost every living thing is to cling on, to remain where it is, but that his own inclination -his own nature- suspended him always in a kind of no-man's-land between remaining and leaving.

Birinin ac?s?, diÄŸerinin kazanc?d?r, ha, Efendim? Bu gerçeÄŸi biliriz deÄŸil mi?

With journaling, you see the patterns of your life; you claim—or reclaim—who you really are; you coach yourself into becoming the someone you imagined; you arrive at a sense of balance, of yourself, of wholeness. You can discover productive patterns and nonproductive patterns in your life, and you can choose to embrace the ones that move you forward.

In real life, the big things and the little things are inextricably mixed up together, so in Libya at one moment, one worried because one's native boots were full of holes, and at the next, perhaps, one wondered how long one would be alive to wear them.

I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it ourselves.

Liberty is like those solid and tasty foods or those full-bodied wines which are appropriate for nourishing and strengthening robust constitutions that are used to them, but which overpower, ruin and intoxicate the weak and delicate who are not suited for them.

It's as though as a species we have no brakes, only breakdowns.

The most cognitively brilliant people usually have had to sacrifice their emotional selves.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink

If you can dream and not make dreams your master

You may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and you can; But kill not for pleasure of killing, and SEVEN TIMES NEVER KILL MAN.

He drew from under the table a sheet of strangely scented yellow-Chinese paper, the brushes, and slab of India ink. In cleanest, severest outline he had traced the Great Wheel with its six spokes, whose centre is the conjoined Hog, Snake, and Dove (Ignorance, Anger, and Lust), and whose compartments are all the heavens and hells, and all the chances of human life.