Quotes about Balance

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

The purpose of all war is peace.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.

I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

And there's such a thing as being oversperitial; we must have something beside Gospel i' this world. Look at the canals, an' th' aqueduc's, an' th' coal-pit engines, and Arkwright's mills there at Cromford; a man must learn summat beside Gospel to make them things, I reckon. But t' hear some o' them preachers, you'd think as a man must be doing nothing all's life but shutting's eyes and looking what's agoing on inside him.

a horsewhipping is not likely to be paid for with sugar-plums.

She did not want to deck herself with knowledge—to wear it loose from the nerves and blood that fed her action

But as to listening to what one lawyer says without asking another—I wonder at a man o' your cleverness, Mr. Dill. It's well known there's always two sides, if no more; else who'd go to law, I should like to know?