Quotes About Equilibrium

The tendency towards equilibrium is not a trait peculiar to our universe but inherent in all universes.

Nothing is free. Everything has to be paid for. For every profit in one thing, payment in some other thing. For every life, a death. Even your music, of which we have heard so much, that had to be paid for. Your wife was the payment for your music. Hell is now satisfied.

One of my realizations is that if you revel over joy, you're going to ache over pain and get killed over hurt. Your span of feelings are going to go just as far one way as the other.

I see myself as half country boy and half city boy, so I need both to balance me out. I couldn't spend all of my time in either place.

You have to deal with your emotions and not spike too much on the graph - not get too elated with the highs or too down with the lows.

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.

I am more of the disciplinarian and the bad cop at home. Since Mahesh spoils our son, I have to balance it out.

Even modern medical researchers have come to the conclusion that peace of mind is vital for good health.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

Man should bear in mind and ponder over the Greek admonition - Not Too Much, Not Too Little.

I have just as much woman in me as I have man. It's just a matter of channeling the energy into which way you use it.

Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.

A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.

One of the great virtues of Confucianism was its suppleness. Western political thought tended to be rather brittle; as soon as the state became corrupt, everything ceased to make sense. Confucianism always retained its equilibrium, like a cork that could float as well in spring water or raw sewage.

If we assume that the arms grew outwards from the center, then there must be something in that center that imbues each of the six arms with the same organizing principle

You must learn to live within the contradiction.

I've started to think it must just be chemistry, in which case we're looking for the Shift and we haven't found it yet.

We must take into account all reality and strive for a balanced answer to our problems.

was China in some sense a victim of its own success – stuck in a 'high-level equilibrium trap' by the ability of its cultivators to provide a vast number of people with just enough calories to live?

Nature moves towards balance.

I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

I think it's important to remember that civil rights and economic rights are mutually dependent.