Quotes about Balance

Well, that's one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this or some of that or all of this and none of that. We make trade-offs we think are best at the time.

We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.

While I am busy with little things I am not required to do greater things.

Study and work and work and study will keep in active exercise both the physical and mental. These two, rightly conducted, will not war against each other.

We should not have to wait until we are sick to be well.

A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably.

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

If we are too busy, if we are carried away every day by our projects, our uncertainty, our craving, how can we have the time to stop and look deeply into the situation-our own situation, the situation of our beloved one, the situation of our family and of our community, and the situation of our nation and of the other nations?

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.

We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

Advise the ruler to govern the state as one cooks a small fish - that is, don't turn it so often in the pan that it disintegrates