Quotes about Balance

There come times when we have to fight for peace.

Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.

We have been brought up in a world that does not put love first, and where love is absent, fear sets in. Fear is to love as darkness is to light.

We have the opportunity to forge a marriage between the masculine and feminine, more potent and more vibrant than any we have experienced on the earth for ages - more beautiful, perhaps, than any the earth has ever known.

Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.

Part of the fruit of the Spirit is self-control. Once you get married, however, a good defense is frequency and freedom.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

Now to exert oneself and work for the sake of amusement seems silly and utterly childish. But to amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation because we cannot work continuously. Relaxation, then, is not an end; for it is taken for the sake of activity.

Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.

By the mean of the thing I denote a point equally distant from either extreme, which is one and the same for everybody; by the mean relative to us, that amount which is neither too much nor too little, and this is not one and the same for everybody.