Quotes About Equilibrium

If an animal is designed by nature to have claws it ought to keep them, and if men come with quirks that they are incapable of changing, well, a certain amount of quietude and even peace can be achieved by just realizing that it's all inherent in the beast. [p. 173]

Life had taught him about something far more complicated than justice. Its name was balance.

People who believe that justice is a pendulum are willing to swing it wildly.

Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.

We'll both walk away smiling, in harmonious equipoise.

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway.

The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.

Even moderation ought not to be practised to excess.

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

He is a pragmatist. He is not right wing, nor left wing, nor any wing.

Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same old dog's rear end every day.

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you're no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn't just a means to an end, but a unique event in itself.

Candour and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin.

Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.

If you walk, just walk. If you sit, just sit. But whatever you do, don't wobble.

The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.

The events were always hidden behind a veil drawn by an unknown power, and seemed to come from the realm of destiny. It was this that upset the everyday equilibrium, logic and the order of things.

If you face something that you fear and recognize it for what is, you give it balance. You restore equilibrium.?

Život u kasabi pored mosta bivao je sve življi, izgledao sve sre?eniji i bogatiji, i hvatao ravnomeran korak i dotle nepoznatu ravnotežu, onu ravnotežu kojoj svaki život, svuda i oduvek teži, a koju postiže samo retko, delimi?no i prolazno.

Sometimes the changes in life came at you so fast, and with such fury, there was no way to keep up with reality. It took time for things to sink in, the new equilibrium establishing itself only after some period of your brain sloshing back and forth against the walls of your head. He was still in the slosh zone.