Quotes about Balance

I want to be a man who serves my family, a man who increases justice in my community. I want to be all of those things, and yet it is just below the surface that I want to strangle somebody when they cut in front of me on the freeway.

heaven and earth, nature and man, comedy and tragedy, … the Virgin Mary and the demons...Mozart simply contains and includes all this within his music in perfect harmony. This harmony is not a matter of "balance" or "indifference" — it is a glorious upsetting of the balance, a turning in which the light rises and the shadows fall, in which the Yes rings louder than the ever-present

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.

I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.

I believe there is complete equality between men and women.

We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.

To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered

If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.