Quotes About Equilibrium

I see lines of space. I break things down into lines and space, and I balance.

You can't ever get too high or too low.

I'm not a madman.

Maintain yourself and everything maintains itself around you.

I have always aimed at maintaining a healthy balance with respect to all aspects of my life.

I'm not a control maniac.

One of the things I admire most about John is his ability to hold compassion in one hand and justice in the other. He offers both liberally and yet they don't cancel each other out.

Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, and so the total amount of energy which is present before and after any physical transaction will not be changed. This principle is called 'the conservation of energy'.

Next to love, balance is the most important thing. –John Wooden

you don't always have to hold your head higher than your heart

Le fait est que, de renoncement en renoncement, Anne se sent depuis quelques temps devenir de plus en plus riche. C'est comme si chacun des espoirs, auxquels naguère elle se cramponnait, avait été une espèce d'amarre , la fixant et l'entravant; et, à chaque amarre rompue, ou bien lâchée, quelque chose en elle bascule, dérive, retrouve un meilleur équilibre. (p217)

Relief and fear were equal in her.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

There is evil in excess; there is evil in scant measure.

all these complex systems have somehow acquired the ability to bring order and chaos into a special kind of balance. This balance point—often called the edge of chaos—is were the components of a system never quite lock into place, and yet never quite dissolve into turbulence, either.

I could offer no consolation and I do not think he wanted any. There are situations in which consolation only threatens the equilibrium that time has instituted.

the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."21

Too much emotion is like none at all.

I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

We learned to build our emotional muscles, helping us make it through major market falls and grind through the trying times without losing our equilibrium.

Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

Health is relative. There is no such thing as an absolute state of health or sickness. Everyone's physical, mental, and emotional condition is a combination of both.

We can't just tack on environmental balance to a fundamentally imbalanced system.