Quotes about Balance
We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good.
- Tessa Afshar
A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other
- Carl Jung
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.
- Jim Elliot
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
- Warren Wiersbe
None of us are entirely well, and none of us are irrecoverably sick.
- Mark Vonnegut
Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
- Marquis de Sade
Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
- Marquis de Sade
Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.
- Martin Luther
A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.
- Martin Luther
I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.
- Martin Luther