Quotes, aphorisms and sentences on balance, or on the stability of a body or a situation where each element does not appear to prevail over the others but balances perfectly with them.
Quotes about balance
- Do you know when you are sitting on a chair and leaning backwards to balance on two legs of the chair and then you lean too far and you are almost about to fall but at the last moment you can recover? I always feel this way. (Steven Wright)
- We must seek our way between the needs of nature and those of the spirit, not a rigid middle way, but an elastic and personal way, in which freedom and bond alternate like inspiration and exhalation. (Herman Hesse)
- The main work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with a balance in his life, who has learned to work in an extraordinary way. (Gordon B. Hinckley)
- Atonement is a form of compensation, that is, blind compensation. There is a law of nature, according to which the difference in height always tries to compensate. (Bert Hellinger)
- The best and safest thing is to have balance in your life, to recognize the great powers around us and in us. If you can do it, and live like that, you will truly be a wise person. (Euripides)
- Do you know when you are sitting on a chair and leaning backwards to balance on two legs of the chair and then you lean too far and you are almost about to fall but at the last moment you can recover? I always feel this way. (Steven Alexander Wright)
- If all humanity were to disappear, the world would again be regenerated to the profound state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. (Edward O. Wilson)
- You are you, both while you eat well and when you binge. But when you eat sensibly, you express love for yourself. (Marianne Williamson)
- Since he has stood on his hind limbs, man has no longer been able to regain his balance. (Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)
- And don't change. Don't take your love away from visible things. Continue to love what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the appropriate balance. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
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- In cities without the sea, who knows who the people are to find their balance, perhaps to the moon. (Banana Yoshimoto)
- Being able to forget is a sign of a strong and balanced spirit. (Jack London)
- What is genius if not balance on the edge of the impossible? (Norman Mailer)
- Balance your needs with your wealth and you will not be poor or rich, but simply lucky. (Kilo Of Sparta)
- Never move the soul without the body, nor the body without the soul, so that by defending each other, these two parts maintain their balance and health. (Plato)
- A strong soul is one that does not lose its internal balance even in the strongest emotions. (Karl Von Clausewitz)
- You must be in a perfect state of balance in order not to let yourself be unbalanced by imbalances. (Romain Gary)
- Balance is a hallucination of the human imagination. (Kenneth Boulding)
- We need a certain amount of pain or deprivation at all times as a ship needs ballast to maintain stability. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
- Live a well balanced life; learn something and think something and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work a little every day. (Robert Fulghum)
- Life is a question of balance. Good and evil. The ups and downs. The pina and the colada. (Ellen DeGeneres)
- Beauty is only on the surface. What is really important is to find a balance between mind, body and spirit. (Jennifer Lopez)
- If humanity must survive, happiness and inner balance are of fundamental importance; otherwise it is very probable that the lives of our children and their children are unhappy, desperate and short. (Dalai Lama)
Aphorisms on balance
- When love turns into a relationship of dependence, a polarization inevitably arises and the balance breaks. Unconditional love is love without the right of possession, it is admiration without veneration. (Vadim Zeland)
- Balance in itself is good. (Haruki Murakami)
- An important point of human wisdom lies in the right proportion in which we devote our attention, part to the present, part to the future, so that one does not spoil the other. Many live too much in the present: light people; others too much in the future: the fearful and anxious. Rarely will one know how to keep the right medium. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
- How can a creature who does not want to give up the idea of hope and risk reach balance? (Karen Blixen)
- The balanced individual is a madman. (Charles Bukowski)
- Men must learn what a leaf and a whale and the wind do naturally. It is up to us to maintain balance. (Haitaka)
- Philosophy means a broad and profound vision of things, it means balance, serenity and objectivity of judgment, respect for the ideas of others, in the belief that politics, like history, is a dialectical game, in which oppositions are necessary for knowledge and progress . (Plutarch)
- My philosophy of eating healthy food has always been linked to enjoying everything in a balanced and healthy way. (Jamie Oliver)
- The first sign of a balanced soul is the ability to rest easy in a place and in the company of yourself. (Lucio Anneo Seneca)
- God bless those who invented sleep, cloak that envelops the thoughts of all men, food that satisfies every hunger, weight that balances the scales and unites the herdsman to the king, the fool to the wise. (Miguel De Cervantes)
- What is genius if not balance on the edge of the impossible? (Norman Mailer)
- The Olympic Spirit exalts and unites the qualities of body, mind and will in a balanced whole. (Pierre De Coubertin)
- Balance calms, but madness is much more interesting. (Bertrand Russell)
- Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that an overabundance of dreams leads to a growing potential for nightmares. (Peter Ustinov)
- If the balancing forces collide the opposites, the pendulums for their part do everything possible to revive the energy of the ongoing conflict. (Vadim Zeland)
- Adequate time and effort are required to gain mental balance. (Haruki Murakami)
- However calm you think when you love, love is always in your heart in unstable balance. (Marcel Proust)
- Action and reaction, ebb and flow, composition and decomposition, unstable equilibrium ... it is the whole system of the world. (Edmond Thiaudière)
- Human beings need a balance halfway between their desires and their pride. (Haruki Murakami)
- I now know the inconstancy of every human relationship and I have learned to defend myself from heat and cold, while always maintaining a good thermal balance. (Albert Einstein)
- Life is like riding a bicycle. To maintain balance you have to move. (Albert Einstein)
- Perfect music has its cause. It arises from balance. Balance comes from the right, the right from the sense of the world. (Hermann Hesse)
- The best and safest thing is to have balance in your life, to recognize the great powers around us and in us. If you can do it, and live like that, you will truly be a wise person. (Euripides)
Balance phrases
- I am a man with limits: I am always physically, emotionally, morally and artistically on the edge of the precipice. And yet I manage to maintain my balance and control of my mental faculties. (Christian Morgenstern)
- What is joy without pain? Success without failure? What is a victory without a loss? Health without disease? Everything must be experienced if you want to appreciate the other. (Mark Twain)
- The world is so divinely organized that each of us, in our time and in our place, is in balance with everything else. (Goethe)
- Asking someone for forgiveness is a complicated thing, a test of a delicate balance between the hardness of pride and the agony of remorse, and if you can't really open up to your interlocutor, all apologies sound superficial and false. (Paul Auster)
- Clarity is the right distribution of shadows and lights. (Goethe)
- Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes, if it were always closed in a fist or open, it would be paralyzed. (Rumi)
- It is very difficult to maintain the balance between being available for others and taking care of yourself. (Jennifer Gray)
- Order is not a pressure imposed on society from outside, but a balance established from within. (José Ortega Y Gasset)
- Faith gives you strength, balance and a life perspective. (Gregory Peck)
- Every order is an act of balance of extreme precariousness. (Walter Benjamin)
- Happiness is synonymous with inner balance. (Frances Conroy)
- In nature everything tends to balance, in society everything moves to accentuate the differences. (Taras Mithrandir)
- Music is often math.It's all about balance. (Mel Brooks)
- Do not look for the solution, find the balance: it will bring the solution. (Swami Satchidananda)
- Balance is the compromise of the muscles. (Hortense Calisher)
- Never move the soul without the body, nor the body without the soul, so that by defending each other, these two parts maintain their balance and health. (Plato)
- Birds have learned the art of balance so thoroughly that it is far from obvious to our eyes, but we begin to appreciate it as soon as we try to imitate them. (Wilbur Wright)
- There is an average everywhere in things: it is determined by balance. (Dmitri Mendeleev)
- When you balance the universe, you don't think about fun. (Josh Brolin)
- Balance calms, but madness is much more interesting. (Bertrand Russell)
- We need a certain amount of pain or deprivation at all times as a ship needs ballast to maintain stability. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
- I soon discovered that the world cannot be changed. The best you can do is learn to live in balance with it. (Henry Miller)
- All art is a problem of balance between two opposites. (Cesare Pavese)
