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Quotes About Equilibrium

It is not proven that Elizabeth's personal equilibrium was set off balance by the slant of the office floor, nor could it be proven that it was Elizabeth who pushed the building off its foundations, but it is undeniable that they began to slip at about the same time.
~ Shirley Jackson
Catherine [of Siena] compares justice combined with mercy with a precious pearl. Justice without mercy would be dark, cruel, more like injustice than justice. But mercy without justice would be like salve on a sore which should be cleansed with the red-hot iron; if the salve is applied before the wound is cleansed it only makes it smart, and does not heal it
~ Sigrid Undset
If we know in what way society is unbalanced, we must do what we can to add weight to the lighter scale ... we must have formed a conception of equilibrium and be ever ready to change sides like justice, 'that fugitive from the camp of conquerors'.
~ Simone Weil
The secret of the human condition is that there is no equilibrium between man and the surrounding forces of nature, which infinitely exceed him when in inaction; there is only equilibrium in action by which man recreates his own life through work.
~ Simone Weil
If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be ...
~ Sophie Kinsella
It's funny how life works like a seesaw: Some things go up while others plunge down.
~ Sophie Kinsella
To me, excessive silence seems to bode as ill as too much shouting.
~ Sophocles
A light tip of the scales can put old bones to rest.
~ Sophocles
It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
My standpoint is armed neutrality.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
You must learn to deal with the odd and even in life, as well as in figures.
~ George Eliot
The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded each sacrifice is made up every debt is paid.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.
~ Samuel Larsen
The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful.
~ Karolina Kurkova
The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially, the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate.
~ Celine Dion
What she did not tell him balanced neatly with what she did.
~ Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
Life: sometimes the man on the saddle, sometimes the saddle on the man.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
Striking a balance in life is tough, but trying to strike balance and remain fair in the face of imbalance and oppression is even tougher.
~ Aisha Mirza
To live on the edge requires an exceptional ability to balance.
~ Tarryn Tomlinson
However smart and determined you are, your life is always going to consist of light and darkness, joy and sadness, good or bad, up and down, yang and yin.
~ Gary Hayden
Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection. (V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)
~ John Ralston Saul
Peace Is Nothing Without Anger
~ Eljihn Cash
My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Each month of the calendar is divided into a dark half and a light half and each day is designated
~ Ellen Evert Hopman