James Anthony Froude Quotes

Every season of life has its compensations.

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to your world. When the world shifts, you shift.

I think, as human beings, we need some balance in our life, right?

It's interesting--the way in which one has to balance life--because you have to know when to let go and when to pull back.... There's always some liminal (as opposed to subliminal) space in between which is harder to inhabit because it never feels as safe as moving from one extreme to another.

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance.

Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.

"Balance" as a verb doesn't mean "stillness," but the constant act of making minor corrections from one side to another to bring one towards a center of stability.

Whatever happens - ultimately, life corrects itself.

The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.

[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.

What Daniel taketh away, Daniel giveth.

I’ve since come to understand that the universe operates on the same general equilibrium theory as markets.It never gives you something without making you pay for it somehow.

What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round.

I don't think balance is ever achieved in the full sense of the word.

I think life is all about having a balance, and trying to find equilibrium and not getting things one way or the other.

There is not secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.

There is no evil without its compensation.

Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.

Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.

All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another.

The life must be a well-balanced life, not lopsided in any manner to bring contentment.

The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.

To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

I think that whatever we encounter in life, we want to encourage a balance between the mind and the soul...and that is to consider about 50% data from the mind and 50% data from the soul. This is what Buddhists call, "the middle way."