Quotes About Balance

The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions.

Without mankind machines are nothing.

THE majority of us are permitted to cope with the important events of our lives in a decently leisurely manner – with ample breathing-space, that is to say, in which to assimilate one shock and recuperate before the next.

I must achieve internal consistency.

Take care of your morals first, your health next, and finally your studies.

Roosevelt remarked on the anomaly whereby man, as he progressed from savagery to civilization, used up more and more of the world's resources, yet in doing so tended to move to the city, and lost his sense of dependence on nature.

For once, he could look back at the past without regret, and at the future without bewilderment. Simply and touchingly, he wrote in his diary: "I have had so much happiness in my life so far that I feel, no matter what sorrows come, the joys will have overbalanced them.

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

You just look upon life as an annoying interruption to ranching.

Leslie reads too much

Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.

What can I give for Your knowledge Of when to expand And when to contract— This instructed, more academic college Of when to act?

We walk On the skin Of life.

My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— It gives a lovely light!

Vendado con un pañuelo rojo y tambaleándose en la claridad, el hombre juega a

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

La idea de ganarse la confianza ajena sin dar a cambio la suya le parecía el colmo de la sabiduría.

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

If food is your best friend, it's also your worst enemy.

The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.