Balance Quotes

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Briar: "They never tell you some things. They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all...

The dogged determination and patience of one person to do what is Right and Necessary may not always...

never ask the tight-rope walker how he keeps his balance. if he stops to think about it, he falls of...

His voice gave out and he made several wavy motions with his hand, indicative of the shape of a woma...

The universe, they say, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identifi...

It's all about balance, do you see? Balance is the trick. Keep the balance and - " she stopped. "You...

We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to d...

In the fifteenth century, Marsilio Ficino put it as simply as possible. The mind, he said, tends to ...

[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appet...

Don't confuse symmetry with balance.

No one wants to live in a wheelchair unable to talk, only winking once for yes and twice for no. It'...

To light a candle is to cast a shadow...

You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But on...

The winds and seas, the powers of water and earth an light, all that these do, and all that the beas...

Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they g...

Life rises out of death, death rises out of life, in being opposite they yearn to each other, they g...

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the ...

The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and...

Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.

Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony ...

The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of id...

Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what desig...

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already ...

I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and h...

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in ...

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories ...

Neither the life of anarchy nor the life enslaved by tyrants, no, worship neither. Strike the balanc...

The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting A...

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must chec...

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to bala...

Life is a balance between emotional intelligence quotient (EQ) and intelligence quotient (IQ).

It’s a struggle for me to remain open," she admits. "To not shut down because I’m defensive or scare...

Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhi...

I am not always just living, just following all my fantasies; I come up for air, for understanding.

I have dreams that I will reach balance in my life, and, at forty-one, I have none.

You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or betw...

Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's...

Because tax cuts create an incentive to increase output, employment, and production, they also help ...

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give...

I think of two landscapes- one outside the self, the other within. The external landscape is the one...

Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, ...

Just as there are none good but God, and nothing good but goodness, so there are no loves but love i...

It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most sk...

At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an op...

The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces li...

Life has its sunshine and its rain, sir... its days and its nights... its peaks and its valleys...

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsib...

To make the world. To make it again and again. To make it in the very maelstrom of its undoing.

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's...

No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about ...

Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. ...

If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerou...

We needn't be saddened with the impossible weight of managing the entire biosphere, but we must meet...

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of...

Embrace the weather, child, and you'll understand the balance of the world.

Maybe if everything was beautiful, nothing would be.People saw one thing, they swooned over it. They...

I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational...

Once, there were no predators, no prey. Only harmony. There were no quakes, no storms, everything in...

The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it ...

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic...

In short, superheroes balance the forces of light and dark, rage and serenity, and the sacred and th...

The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles an...

No, there's a group of hardened, fossilised men opposed by fresh young revolutionaries as John Butte...

To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to ...

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find ...

The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own s...

He showed me a sketch he'd drawn once during meditation. It was an androgynous human figure, standin...

The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this p...

The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things th...

My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the c...

This selfishness is not only part of me. It is the most living part.It is somehow transcending rathe...

Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. ...

I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty...

He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opp...

There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does no...

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Her hope was to preserve what she called The Way, to keep it alive, for that future moment when the ...

I could leave—because I could return. I could return—because I knew adventure lay just beyond an ope...

Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other. This balance between making camp and ...

Being a dancer is my metaphor for life because you have to know your body. Being a dancer and paying...

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in ...

What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexu...

If you spend five minutes with me or watch me try to balance my checkbook, you can only imagine the ...

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

A certain beauty in the world is no mark of God's favor, said Mr. Huss. There is no beauty one may n...

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we ea...

In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fi...

In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fi...

You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your hea...

Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn't fear boundaries, but you ...

Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind to yourself.

Being tough isn’t in and of itself a bad thing. Looking back on it, though, I can see I was too used...

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subje...

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the grow...

One of the reasons this election is so important is because the Supreme Court hangs in the balance. ...

Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really r...