#Balance Quotes

“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.”

“Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.”

“They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.”

“Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.”

“There is a tendency for things to right themselves.”

“The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.”

“Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.”

“Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.”

“The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties.”

“An overflow of good converts to bad.”

“Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.”

“The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.”

“Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.”

“If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.”

“At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.”

“The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.”

“It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.”

“People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.”

“For everything you gain, you lose something.”

“A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success.”

“If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.”

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

“The life of this world is nothing but the harmony of opposites”

“So many hours must I take my rest;So many hours must I contemplate.”

“Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.”

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”

“Failure should never go to heart and success should never go to head, both makes a person to fall in life.”

“Don't be careless about yourselves--on the other hand not too careful. Live well but do not flaunt it. Laugh a little and teach your men to laugh--get good humor under fire--war is a game that's played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.”

“Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.”

“It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.”

“The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.”

“Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.”

“Life is about balance. Be kind, but don’t let people abuse you. Trust, but don’t be deceived. Be content, but never stop improving yourself.”

“In order to understand the dance one must be still. And in order to truly understand stillness one must dance.”

“For some must watch, while some must sleep So runs the world away”

“People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.”

“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.”

“If I gaze at my beloved she may feel embarrassed and if I do not, she will feel neglected. I can see the stars reflecting in the calm water of her face but if I look away I lose my clarity.”

“Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself. Culture redresses this imbalance, puts him among equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy, and warns him of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.”

“The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.”

“Moderation in all things, especially moderation.”

“Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.”

“I'm often asked, Which is more important--attitude or skill? The answer is that it's somewhat like asking which leg of a three-legged stool is most important. It is my complete conviction, based on a considerable amount of research, that if you have the right attitude, combined with the right skills, and build your attitude and your skills on a solid character base, you can enjoy long-lasting success.”

“A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using and tiring it, just in the same way he can wear out the elbows of his coat.”

“Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.”

“We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.”

“Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons, we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.”

“The door to a balanced success opens widest on the hinges of hope and encouragement.”

“The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward sensesare still truly adjusted to each other.”

“We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.”