Quotes about Balance

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.

Faith and reason are indeed complementary faculties that we use to think about the truth. When any winged creature (or mechanism) tries to fly on just one wing, it falls to the ground. In a similar way, when we human beings try to wing it with just one faculty, we crash.

St. Josemaria diagnosed this tendency to overwork as a sickness of the spirit. That was before the word "workaholism" was coined. St. Josemaria called the condition "professionalitis"— suggesting a corruption of something good.

I agree with you, that in Politicks the Middle Way is none at all.

Every project has been found to be no better than committing the lamb to the custody of the wolf, except that one which is called a balance of power.

I say, that Power must never be trusted without a check.

Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.

The providence of God, I grant, does not indeed preclude the faithful from caring for themselves; but let them do it in such a way, that they may not overstep their prescribed bounds.

For this is spiritual sobriety, when we use this world so sparingly and temperately that we are not entangled with its allurements.

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.