Quotes about Balance
If you had to say something definitive about the world in a single sentence what would that sentence be? It would be this: the world has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy.
— Cormac McCarthy
The world has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy.
— Cormac McCarthy
Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creature could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet?
— Cormac McCarthy
If you're sane enough to know that you're crazy then you're not as crazy as if you thought you were sane.
— Cormac McCarthy
Themselves among others, everything in its place. Justified in the world.
— Cormac McCarthy
There's little equity in the Lord's gifts.
— Cormac McCarthy
The world has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy. I suppose that's true. What then? Is that all that the world has in mind? If the world has a mind then it's all worse than we thought.
— Cormac McCarthy
I was valuing my survival more than sharing my faith.
— Craig Keener
The mosquito knows full well, small as he is he's a beast of prey. But after all he only takes his bellyful, he doesn't put my blood in the bank.
— DH Lawrence
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
— Dale Carnegie
The reason why rivers and seas receive the homage of a hundred mountain streams is that they keep below them. Thus they are able to reign over all the mountain streams. So the sage, wishing to be above men, putteth himself below them; wishing to be before them, he putteth himself behind them. Thus, though his place be above men, they do not feel his weight; though his place be before them, they do not count it an injury.
— Dale Carnegie
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world—and loses his health?
— Dale Carnegie