Best balance & opposites Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There are a lot of things that I love, but if you're just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over... So the trick is finding out how to maintain your balance when you're in situations with the people who make you happy and when you're not.”

Author:Tommy Shaw

“The need for truth is not constant; no more than is the need for repose. An idea which is a distortion may have a greater intellectual thrust than the truth; it may better serve the needs of the spirit, which vary. The truth is balance, but the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.”

Needs May Ideas Spirit Lying Greater Balance Truth Is Intellectual Opposites Constant Vary Thrust Repose Distortion

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.”

Want Art Two Feelings Problem Wealth Balance Art Is Opposites Depth Realism Symbolism Two Opposites

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“The phrase "work-life balance" tells us that people think that work is the opposite of life. We should be talking about life-life balance.”

People Thinking Should Work Talking Balance Opposites Phrases Work Life Balance Life Balance

Author:Patrick Dixon

“Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and poverty, which seemed very ponderous, they were not able to stir the opposite balance.”

Able Wealth Poverty Balance Opposites Weight Eternity Prosperity Scales Affliction Wealth And Poverty

Author:Joseph Addison

“Mind and intuition are at opposite ends of the same continuum and our goal is to strike a healthy balance between the two.”

Mind Two Ends Goal Balance Healthy Opposites Intuition Strikes Continuum

Author:Shakti Gawain

“Freedom and relationship are polar opposites - they both exist on the same continuum. You DO want a relationship - and you DO want freedom - what you really want is BALANCE, you want wholeness.”

Want Balance Opposites Wholeness Continuum Polar Opposites

Author:Shakti Gawain

“The only good thing about religion is the music. Because nature is filled with balances and opposites, there are always exceptions to the overall rules, whether the overall rules are bleak or otherwise. If you propound a joyous theory of existence, I will find an exception to that. If I propound a bleak theory, someone will find a joyous exception. That's just nature being nature, I think, and I don't think it offers a lot of hope. It's sort of a respite along the way.”

Ifs Thinking Way Existence Theory Balance Offers Music Is Opposites Filled Good Things Exception Joyous Bleak Respite

Author:George Carlin

“I find that so often this work can so easily overcome you and knock you out of balance and become all you think about and all you care about and all you feel is important in your life, and it's kind of the opposite. Relationships first and people first and then you can be a great performer.”

People Thinking Feels Firsts Kind Important Care Balance Opposites Overcoming Performers

Author:Erin Davie

“My parents are opposites who balance each other out.”

Parent Balance Opposites

Author:Tamara Ecclestone

“I understand the opposite side of the camera. I have a profound respect for that. I have worked with people who, when you hit that mark, are doing 50 percent of your work for you. So, you know, it's a balance. When you walk into a mark and you're lit a certain way or something's happening so often you don't know what's behind you... And that's what's so strange about being a movie actor.”

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Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“The true secret of natural goodness lies in the recognition of the contending rights of the Pairs of Opposites; there is no such antimony as between Good and Evil, but only balance between two extremes, each of which is evil when carried to excess, both of which give rise to evil if insufficient for equipoise.”

Ifs Giving Two Lying Evil Natural Secret Rights Balance Goodness Opposites Extremes Recognition Good And Evil Pairs Excess Insufficient Contending Two Extremes

Author:Dion Fortune

“We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.”

Believe Done Life Is Found Perfect Enemy Balance Perception Opposites Diminish Perfect Balance

Author:Queen Rania of Jordan

“Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.”

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Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

“The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.”

May Truth Lying Balance Truth Is Opposites

Author:Susan Sontag

“The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught. But what about the benefits of living harmoniously among extremes? What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly incongruous opposites into a worldview that excludes nothing?”

Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead. Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete.”

Two Whole Passion Balance Equal Opposites Traits Polite Elegant Courtesy Crude Barbarians Socialization Polar Opposites

Author:Vera Nazarian

“Everything I pick up seems to lure me away. Everything I do in my daily life begins to feel like striking wet matches. The need to travel is a mysterious force. A desire to 'go' runs through me equally with an intense desire to 'stay' at home. An equal and opposite thermodynamic principle. When I travel, I think of home and what it means. At home I'm dreaming of catching trains at night in the gray light of Old Europe, or pushing open shutters to see Florence awaken. The balance just slightly tips in the direction of the airport.”

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