Quotes about Balance

Shall the world, then, be overrun by oysters?

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces. The sea air, sunshine, and patience, Watson—all else will come.

Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.

The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded each sacrifice is made up every debt is paid.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially, the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate.

I shall temper soJustice with mercy.

Hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce,Strive here for mast'ry.

And out of good still to find means of evil.

One of the great illusions of our day is that hurrying will buy us more time.

On the other hand, emotion without truth produces empty frenzy and cultivates shallow people who refuse the discipline of rigorous thought.

Some of us are afraid of getting too emotional when we sing. But the problem isn't emotions. It's emotionalism. Emotionalism pursues feelings as ends in themselves. It's wanting to feel something with no regard for how that feeling is produced or its ultimate purpose.