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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium. — David Harvey

As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Understand stakeholder symmetry: Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. — Warren G. Bennis

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction. - Plato

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction. — Plato

Countless words count less than the silent balance between yin and yang — Lao Tzu

Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance. — Taisen Deshimaru

I am part of the load not rightly balanced . . . — Rumi

The keystone of the entire structure of the spiritual and physical universe is Rhythmic Balanced Interchange between all opposites. — Walter Russell

Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance. — Archimedes

It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight. — Erwin Rommel

Feet are also crucial to balance, another important element of stability. One key test in our movement assessment is to have our patients stand with one foot in front of the other and try to balance. — Peter Attia

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage. — W. Clement Stone

Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things. — John Frusciante

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. — Eric Hoffer

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More Counterbalance Quotes

My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible. — Rachel Hartman

We have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. But in the name of freedom, people have done a lot of damage. I think we have to build a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast in order to counterbalance. Because liberty without responsibility is not true liberty. We are not free to destroy. — Nhat Hanh

Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of. — Blaise Pascal

My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses . — Richard Schmid

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions. — Walt Whitman

Any time one person makes an effort to contact a deeper part of him or herself, balance his or her emotions, and deflect the stress momentum, others benefit. As more individuals learn to maintain their poise and balance and refrain from adding to the incoherence around them, they help to counterbalance the frequency of stress — Howard Martin

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts. — Marquis De Vauvenargues

In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance. — Wim Wenders

On a horse that consistently hung left-The best thing you can do is put a bit of lead in his right ear, to act as a counterbalance ... with a shotgun. — Lester Piggott

And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life. — Minoru Yamasaki

Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy. — Honore de Balzac

If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness of male drive the aggressive society will run to its lunatic extremes at ever-escalating speed. Who will safeguard the despised animal faculties of compassion, empathy, innocence and sensuality? — Germaine Greer

One individual who lives and vibrates to the energy of pure love and reverence for all of life will counterbalance the negativity of 750,000 individuals who calibrate at the lower weakening levels. — Wayne Dyer

I just like dealing with scientists for awhile and then going over and dealing with musicians for awhile. They both have qualities that kind of counterbalance each other. — Jonathan Meiburg

It's necessary, sometimes, for women to embrace the company of other women even more than might seem normal. But there is no normal in this world. Radical change is necessary to counterbalance what has occurred. — Frederick Lenz

And it has been sarcastically said, that there is a wide difference between a good physician and a bad one, but a small difference between a good physician and no physician at all; by which it is meant to insinuate, that the mischievous officiousness of art does commonly more than counterbalance any benefit derivable from it. — Gilbert Blane

The reality is that living digitally rewires our brains for perpetual motion, shallow surface thinking, and compulsive/addictive behaviors. Because our world is only going to become more tech-driven with each passing day, unless we find ways to counterbalance these detrimental effects, we'll remain spiritual babes, drinking milk for the rest of our lives instead of the solid food God has for us. — Tricia Rhodes

But there's also a strong emotional core to counterbalance the experimentalism, with some incredibly moving passages around the narrator's relationship with her (also female) German teacher. It's beautiful. — Deborah Smith

If a person asked my advice, before undertaking a long voyage, my answer would depend upon his possessing a decided taste for some branch of knowledge, which could by this means be advanced. No doubt it is a high satisfaction to behold various countries and the many races of mankind, but the pleasures gained at the time do not counterbalance the evils. — Charles Darwin

Smuggle out the truth, pass it through all the obstacles that its enemies fabricate; multiply, spread by all means possible her message so that she may triumph; through zeal and civic action counterbalance the influence of money and the machinations lavished on the propagation of deception. That, in my opinion, is the most useful activity and the most sacred duty of pure patriotism. — Maximilien Robespierre

We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other. — William Hazlitt

Okay, look at it this way: if the evening news has a very high probability of being accurate, then it's highly improbable that they would inaccurately report the numbers chosen in the lottery. That counterbalances any improbability in the choosing of those numbers, so you're quite rational to believe in this highly improbable event. — William Lane Craig

Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him from lurching into the serious or melancholy, unlike Andrew, who had been unable to adopt his cousin's casual attitude to life, and to whom everything seemed so achingly profound, imbed with that absurd solemnity that the transience of of existence conferred upon even the smallest act. — Félix J. Palma

One hour three times per week in the gym is no counterbalance to all of the other behavior in those other 165 hours — Mark Twight

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