Joan D. Vinge Quotes

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.

Life is all about balance and following what the universe provides for you.

Nature moves towards balance.

I am two with nature.

There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

Everything in life... has to have balance.

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Balance is good. You should always have balance... you need it to survive.

I try to play with balance.

It's essential to have equilibrium in your life.

Balance is really important.

I can't be separated from nature. I am one of her faces.

Nature is harmony in discord.

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheel-work of the universe.

As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward; the bottom is bent up. It adjusts excess and deficiency so that there is perfect balance.

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.

I think everything in life is a balance.

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.