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Quotes About Equilibrium

Every chemical reaction has a transition state.
~ Derek Harold Richard Barton
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
~ Socrates
Action is being truly observant of your own thoughts, good or bad, looking into the true nature of whatever thoughts may arise, neither tracing the past nor inviting the future, neither allowing any clinging to experiences of joy, nor being overcome by sad situations. In so doing, you try to reach and remain in the state of great equilibrium, where all good and bad, peace and distress, are devoid of true identity.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
By working with the elements we enable ourselves to be balanced and remain centred, whilst at the same time promoting personal growth through realization of imbalances within ourselves.
~ Sorita d'Este
Activity and rest are two vital aspects of life. To find a balance in them is a skill in itself. Wisdom is knowing when to have rest, when to have activity, and how much of each to have. Finding them in each other - activity in rest and rest in activity - is the ultimate freedom.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Otherwise, every act has something positive and something negative.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
~ St. Augustine
Between overstatement and understatement lies one hundred per cent.
~ Sten Nadolny
If you want to realize the truth, don't be for or against. The struggle between good and evil is the primal disease of the mind.
~ Sengcan
All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.
~ Richard Cecil
The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if you throw a tumblerful of water into the sea, you cannot get the same tumblerful of water out again.
~ James Clerk Maxwell
The truth exists at the junction between good and bad.
~ Thiruman Archunan
Being too reasonable is a defect
~ Michael Crichton
Too much change is as destructive as too little.
~ Michael Crichton
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
~ Francois Rabelais
Whatever situation you are in, that is what is normal for you.
~ Jo Brand
I have a way of just being ice and just cooling situations and making things work.
~ Paul Walker
Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
~ Ambrose Bierce
When you have five skill positions, if all five of them are contributing to the offensive effort, then that's balanced.
~ Mike Leach
Keep spreading the love, world. But don't get greedy and overpopulate the planet.
~ Allen Evangelista
Life, love, boys—it was all about balance. ~Anna Percy
~ Zoey Dean
Everything is as important as everything else.
~ John Lennon
Neither love without knowledge, nor knowledge without love can produce a good life.
~ Betrand Russell
Goldilocks effect"—that everything is just right. (For the record, these three possible universes are known respectively as closed, open and flat.) Now
~ Bill Bryson