Quotes about Balance

A harmony established contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

The tiniest worm is of importance; the great is little, the little is great; everything is balanced in necessity; alarming vision for the mind. There are marvellous relations between beings and things; in that inexhaustible whole, from the sun to the grub, nothing despises the other; all have need of each other.

To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.

Supreme art is the region of Equals. There is no primacy among masterpieces.

You can't put as much into one thing as you want, and I felt like I was shortchanging football a little bit by giving school so much time.

Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.

How would I explain to him that I couldn't make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I would immediately lose my inner balance? How would I explain that one of the arms of my internal scales would suddenly shoot upward? How would I explain that my hatred of him counterbalanced the weight of evil that had fallen on my youth? How would I explain that he embodied all the evils in my life? How would I explain to him that I needed to hate him?

You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.

Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.

You're able to love others, to give to others, and do for others by giving and doing for yourself first.

Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty.