Quotes about Balance

I have three treasures. Guard and keep them:The first is deep love,The second is frugality,And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world.Because of deep love, one is courageous.Because of frugality, one is generous.Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

He who knows enough is enough will always have enough.

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

The best man is like water. Water is good it benefits all things and does not compete with them. It dwells in lowly places that all disdain. This is why it is so near to Tao.

The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.

The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete. It stays in the lowly places which others despise. Therefore it is near The Eternal.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery

A most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

In short, I should have liked to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet be man enough to know its value

I have often thought him since, like the steam hammer, that can crush a man or pat an eggshell, in his combination of strength with gentleness

What is the secret, my darling, of your being everything to all of us, as if there werre only one of us, yet never seeming to be hurried, or to have too much to do? -Darney to Lucie