Quotes About Equilibrium

Nature abhors a long silence.

It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.

The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates it to the individual. Procreation, equilibrium.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness and impartiality

Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.

The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?

Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values.

Spiritual balance is how you deal with opposition, outside of yourself and within.

I'm always pursuing knowledge I'm a seeker of spiritual equilibrium - and music is a big part of that.

Remember to take in and harvest light yet also allow yourself to cast shadows where needed, like a tree. Then, in return, your shadow will support your light.

Awareness is a great neutralizer of negative emotions." Living Beyond the Five Senses

Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable.

which is 1.5 squares.

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

No social stability without individual stability.

She looked at Bernard with an expression of rapture, but of rapture in which there was no trace of agitation or excitement—for to be excited is still to be unsatisfied. Hers was the calm ecstasy of achieved consummation, the peace, not of mere vacant satiety and nothingness, but of balanced life, of energies at rest and in equilibrium. A rich and living peace.

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.

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.

Now imagine starting again with a full tub, and again open the drain, but this time, when the tub is about half empty, turn on the inflow faucet so the rate of water flowing in is just equal to that flowing out. What happens? The amount of water in the tub stays constant at whatever level it had reached when the inflow became equal to the outflow. It is in a state of dynamic equilibrium—its level does not change, although water is continuously flowing through it.

we sometimes miss seeing that we can fill a bathtub not only by increasing the inflow rate, but also by decreasing the outflow rate.

Às vezes, acho que a vida não passa de uma balança de pratos, um sistema de pesos e contrapesos: sempre que me acontece alguma coisa boa, algo horrível há de seguir-se para equilibrar os pratos e impedir-me de ser completa e absolutamente feliz.

God moves into our lives by divine design, to periodically disturb our equilibrium. That's how he develops us.