Quotes About Equilibrium

Since the development of bacteriology, many have been inclined to forget that, as it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host. There is a constant struggle between disease germs and the bodies of animals and of human beings that they invade. There is also a tendency for an equilibrium to become established. The germs kill off the most susceptible and immunize the more resistant.

Fortitude is the mean between fear and rashness.

Health is the art of balance, balance is the art of relaxation, and relaxation is the art of meditation

We either manage our thoughts & emotions or they manage us

A life without psychological balance, another dimension of uncertainty.

You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

Nothing was wrong, except that nothing was wrong.

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.

You must see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two.

Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.

Even though it is logically obvious that we must accept equilibrium, we are not built to be satisfied with it because being unsatisfied has been an excellent strategy for the last several billion years.

Instead of toggling between victory and defeat, we have to learn to live in the middle, in the gray area, where a real life can unfold on its own time.

Taming what was scary not by hiding it, not by blocking it or burying it, not by keeping it secret, but by reminding themselves, and everyone else, to choose love, choose openness, to think and be calm. That there were more ways than just two, wider possibilities than hidden or betrayed, stalled or brokenhearted, male or female, right or wrong. Middle ways. Ways beyond.

The problem of the house is a problem of the epoch. The equilibrium of society today depends upon it. Architecture has for its first duty, in this period of renewal, that of bringing about a revision of values, a revision of the constituent elements of the house.

The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes.

In prosperity we need moderation; in adversity, patience

The first principle concerns the power and subtlety of situational influences. The second involves the importance of people's subjective interpretations of the situation. The third speaks to the necessity of understanding both individual psyches and social groups as tension systems or energy "fields" characterized by an equilibrium between impelling and restraining forces.

A body at rest or in uniform motion remains in that state of rest or uniform motion unless it is disturbed by forces.

Physics out of quantum equilibrium contains several surprises. One is that it becomes possible to send information faster than light. This is a consequence of another result of Valentini's, which tells us that while the system is out of quantum equilibrium, information and energy can be sent instantaneously, contradicting special relativity.

a universe in thermal equilibrium, in which nothing happened except random motion of the atoms, would have no clock.

Is it fair for the bears to come down to where humans live, looking for food? Is it fair for the Duke's soldiers to shoot at them? Is it fair for the bears to crush them with giant snowballs? Often, if you point out something that isn't fair, someone will reply, "Life isn't fair." What is to be done with such people?

Everything is as important as everything else.

one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half…

There should be moderation in everything.