Quotes about Balance

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

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

We should have some other collection of knowledge, then, to balance that one out — its inverse, its inner lining, everything we don't know, all the things that can't be captured in any index, can't be handled by any search engine. For the vastness of these contents cannot be traversed from word to word — you have to step in between the words, into the unfathomable abysses between ideas.

There are two points of view in the world: the frog's perspective and bird's-eye view. Any point in between just leads to chaos.

It is at Dusk that the most interesting things occur, for that is when simple differences fade away. I could live in everlasting Dusk.

People shouldn't be allowed to live so far away," he said at the front door. "What do you gain by hiding away from the world like this? It'll catch up with you anyway.

God, God . . . He's just a good accountant with an eye on the debit as well as the credit column. There has to be a balance. One life is wasted, another is born . . .

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

Family, nature and health all go together.

Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet, but they cannot live together in harmony .