Quotes About Equilibrium

Virtue lies in the middle ground.

remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.

I be getting high just to balance out the lows.

Too much emotion is like none at all.

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.

Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.

The life must be a well-balanced life, not lopsided in any manner to bring contentment.

Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.

I always strive to keep a balance with my fears. I don't like to be ruled by them. At the same time, I don't like the idea of living my life totally free of any fears. I like having that moderation.

A balanced life is like a three legged stool. Each leg - nutrition, fitness and wellness- is necessary and supports the other.

Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.

In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.

Life and death are the same...Leave karma to karma.

You can have it all without suffering from a meltdown.

I's all about finding balance in your life.

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

When we accept all of life's contradictions, when we can comfortably flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both while getting stuck in neither, then we are free.

If intellect and will are correctly centered, the emotional life takes on harmony.

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.

Agility is the ability to balance flexibility and stability

Success lies in the balance between seeking and striving on one hand and being peaceful and content on the other.

In a few hours the world will resume itself, but for now we're in a pocket of silence. We're in the plasmapause, a place of equilibrium, where the forces of the earth meet the forces of the sun. I imagine it as a place of stillness, where the particles of dust stop spinning and hang motionless in deep space.

Highsmith's life and work would always give the appearance of a balancing act.