Quotes About Equilibrium

lower dose, which, like the building codes in California that are designed to prevent damage from earthquakes, allowed my mind and emotions to sway a bit.

Prolonged cocaine use, which diminishes dopamine functioning, gives support to the general rule that external sources of exuberance are ultimately overruled by the brain's inclination to seek out equilibrium.

After all, if a community could reach some sort of an equilibrium without having to be guided by an outsider, then so much the better.

Porque sabe que es preciso reírse de las cosas para mantener el equilibrio, para impedir que el mundo acabe enloqueciéndote. Sabe que las cosas tienen su lado triste [...], pero no quiere que el dolor empañe el humor, lo mismo que no permitiría que el humor empañase el dolor.

Sa infatti che si deve ridere delle cose delle quali si è feriti soltanto per mantenere l'equilibrio, impedire che il mondo ti renda pazzo furioso. Sa che esiste un aspetto doloroso; sa che il pollice mi duole, che la sua amichetta ha un seno illividito e che il dottore sta perdendo gli occhiali, ma non vuole consentire alla sofferenza di cancellare l'umorismo, non più di quanto consenta all'umorismo di cancellare la sofferenza.

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

A good relationship is all about balance and chemistry.

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.

Have a care therefore where there is more sail than ballast.

To do a great right, do a little wrong.

both the making and the unmaking were essential parts of life & necessary to keep the balance.

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

But as things got thinner, more full of holes, our hearts got thinner, too, diluted somehow. I suppose that kept things in balance.

It is a conflict between man and his parasites27 which, in a constant environment, would tend to result in a virtual equilibrium, a climax state, in which both species would survive indefinitely. Man, however, lives in an environment constantly being changed by his own activities, and few of his diseases have attained such an equilibrium.

I'm a productive citizen. Well, not productive, I mean if you add up what I bring to society and what I take out, society probably breaks even. And I'm not crazy. I mean, I know anybody can say that. But a crazy person can't fake sane, right?

Life is not about creating perfection it's about finding Balance.

Black and white is heaviest of vibrant and at the same time lightest of achromatic.

Peace can only survive when fed peace.

For every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

Everything happened to find the balance of Life.

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

Confucius said the doctrine of the mean was the highest virtue, and rare among men. The Buddhists call it the middle way. Aristotle saw moderation as the essence of virtue. I say moderation in all things, even moderation.

It was Sophie who, by the example of her work and her life, both of them bathed in clarity, showed me the right way. In her world, the high and the low, the light and the dark, the eternal and the ephemeral, are balanced in prefect equilibrium.

The world is not dialectical -- it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.