“Sometimes in life, we have to go backward a certain distance in order to go forwards. If we have conflicts within ourselves that we have not resolved, then we will find ourselves living inside of these conflicts, not in the realms of light.” IfsSometimesLightCertainOrderBuddhismBalanceConflictDistanceRealmsSometimes In Life Author:Frederick Lenz
“Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal - and these balances are shifting all the time.” FeelingsDangerousBecomingBalanceConflictUniversalProfessionPoetry IsResolutionShiftingUltras Author:May Sarton
“Because by definition they lack any sense of mutuality or wholeness, our specializations subsist on conflict with one another. The rule is never to cooperate, but rather to follow one's own interest as far as possible. Checks and balances are all applied externally, by opposition, never by self-restraint. Labor, management, the military, the government, etc., never forbear until their excesses arouse enough opposition to force them to do so.” SelfEnoughGovernmentForceInterestMilitaryBalanceConflictLaborManagementEnvironmentalDefinitionsChecksOppositionEtcExcessSustainabilityWholenessRestraintSpecializationSelf Restraint Author:Wendell Berry
“The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals], which is deeply rooted in human nature.” HumansCultureGrowthHuman NatureDependsBalanceConflictRadicalVarietyRootedRichnessContinuation Author:Paul Johnson
“The argument culture urges us to approach the world-and the people in it-in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposition is the best way to get anything done: Conflict and opposition are as necessary as cooperation and agreement, but the scale is off balance, with conflict and opposition over-weighted.” PeopleWorldWayMindDoneCultureBalanceConflictApproachArgumentScalesBest WayAssumptionOppositionUrgesAgreementCooperationFrame Of Mind Author:Deborah Tannen
“For Confucians, we are such thoroughly social beings that individual and social interests are not in the end regarded as fundamentally incompatible. Though there will be conflicts, the central mission of moral and political philosophy is to foster approaches that will render them compatible or if that is not possible in some cases, to keep a reasonable balance so that neither side is consistently sacrificed for the sake of the other.” PhilosophyPoliticalIndividualInterestMoralBalanceConflictConsistentlyPolitical Philosophy Author:David Wong
“Vladimir Putin would like to have more influence in Ukraine. He would like to have Ukraine always knocked slightly off balance so that they don't know what he might do next. He would like to demonstrate that he has more power than the Ukrainians do. And so certainly by making a frozen conflict situation where Ukraine never really has a definitive sense of sovereignty over its own territory, that's in Putin's interest.” InterestSituationInfluenceBalanceConflictOver ItSovereignty Author:Kimberly Zisk Marten
“The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.” HumansAbleNumbersEconomyEnvironmentBalanceConflictDiseaseStressResponseAncientComplicatedHuman LifeTrafficWork Life BalanceLife BalanceStressorsFamily ConflictWork And Life Balance Author:Andrew Bernstein
“All of my own impulses to balance and move seemed to conflict with those of the guards, and I was jerked and jostled down the portico, just as graceful as a sick cat.” MovingMy OwnBalanceConflictCatSickImpulse Book:The Thief Source: The Thief