Bryan Konietzko Quotes

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

We define organic order as the kind of order that is achieved when there is a perfect balance between the needs of the parts, and the needs of the whole.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb unless the lamb is inside the lion.

Balance isn't either/or; it's 'and'.

Integration is a basic law of life; when we resist it, disintegration is the natural result, both inside and outside of us. Thus we come to the concept of harmony through integration.

It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

Peace is not a state - it is a choice, and you have to remake it every day. It's possible to get a sort of stability, a habit of peace, but it's like an egg balanced, spinning, on its point: lose your momentum, and your equilibrium is gone, too.

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect.

You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.

We in South Africa had a relatively peaceful transition. If our madness could end as it did, it must be possible to do the same everywhere else in the world. If peace could come to South Africa, surely it can come to the Holy Land.

I think that anything in life is about the middle ground.

You try to do what you can to bring harmony wherever you go.

I've always been about the balance - not sacrificing one thing for the other and not being an extremist.

We should always be looking for the unity in things instead of the differences.

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

Let the end and the means be joined into one.

A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.

If you don't have both of them working together in a complementary, cohesive way, you're not going to be successful.

There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.