Imbalance Quotes - Page 2

• The God of Love lives in a state of need.

  Plato

  Love Life, Needs, Hunger And Thirst

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• By means of meditation we can teach our minds to be calm and balanced; within this calmness is a richness and a potential, an inner knowledge which can render our lives boundlessly satisfying and meaningful. While the mind may be what traps us in unhealthy patterns of stress and imbalance, it is also the mind which can free us. Through meditation, we can tap the healing qualities of mind.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Meaningful, Stress, Healing

  Tarthang Tulku (1978). “Openness mind”, Dharma Pub

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• It's not the imbalances of life that will get you down-it's doing meaningless things that aren't taking you where you want to go.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Meaningless Things, Doing Me, Want

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• The solidarity which binds all men together as members of a common family makes it impossible for wealthy nations to look with indifference upon the hunger, misery and poverty of other nations whose citizens are unable to enjoy even elementary human rights. The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.

  Pope John XXIII

  Peace, Men, Ubuntu

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• It turns out that dopamine is a chemical on double duty in the brain. Along with its role in motor commands, it also serves as the main messenger in the reward systems, guiding a person toward food, drink, mates, and all things useful for survival. Because of its role in the reward system, imbalances in dopamine can trigger gambling, overeating, and drug addiction - behaviors that result from a reward system gone awry.

  David Eagleman

  Gambling, Addiction, Drug

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.165, Vintage

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• Hundreds upon hundreds of news outlets - okay, thousands - are interested in following the happenings at the White House. Yet the number of news sources at the White House - people who know what's happening - is finite. Dozens maybe. With that imbalance hanging over the enterprise, it's hard for a group of reporters competing against one another to secure the upper hand.

  Erik Wemple

  Hands, White, Numbers

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• But there still prevails, even in nations well acquainted with commerce, a strong jealousy with regard to the balance of trade, and a fear, that all their gold and silver may be leaving them. This seems to me, almost in every case, a groundless apprehension; and I should as soon dread, that all our springs and rivers should be exhausted, as that money should abandon a kingdom where there are people and industry.

  David Hume

  Strong, Spring, Rivers

  David Hume (2016). “Essays Moral, Political, Literary: Revision of Great Book”, p.269, VM eBooks

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• The balance of trade is an article of faith.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Balance, Trade, Articles

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• At the center of every recession is a serious imbalance in the economy and mirrored in the financial system. Think subprime mortgage and the Great Recession, or the technology bubble and the early 2000s recession. There are no such imbalances today.

  Mark Zandi

  Technology, Thinking, Today

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• If a trade deficit is determined solely by rates of savings and investment, then the U.S. trade deficit will be impervious to a get-tough trade policy. Slapping higher tariffs on imports will only deprive foreigners of the dollars they would have earned by selling in the U.S. market.

  Daniel T. Griswold

  Balance, Dollars, Saving

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• America has hundreds of billions of dollars of losses on a yearly basis - hundreds of billions with China on trade and trade imbalance, with Japan, with Mexico, with just about everybody. We don't make good deals anymore.

  Donald Trump

  Loss, America, Japan

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• 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.

  Ani DiFranco

  Government, Ecosystems, People

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• Small Data defines this space, identifies the imbalances we all have and thus the gap these imbalances represents for your new innovation.

  Martin Lindstrom

  Data, Space, Innovation

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The U.S. didn't save enough; we borrowed a lot. There were structural imbalances in Asia with exporters, with oil exporters for a whole variety of things.

  Henry Paulson

  Oil, Asia, Enough

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Many entire nations are marginalised by the more powerful nations. That is causing imbalance, violence and terror. Women must do their best to introduce another perspective.

  Karen Armstrong

  Powerful, Perspective, Violence

  "A conversation with Karen Armstrong". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to me a chronic imbalance in modern life.

  Paul Winter

  Inspiration, People, Modern Life

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• Integrated meditation practice is like a healthy diet
  which is indispensable for maintaining your vitality and resistance to disease.
  Likewise, a balanced meditative practice in the course of a socially engaged way of life
  heightens your psychological immune system, so that you are less vulnerable to mental imbalances of all kinds.

  B. Alan Wallace

  Meditation Practice, Healthy, Vitality

  B. Alan Wallace (2010). “The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Today social justice represents one of the most serious challenges to the conscience of the world. The abyss between those who are within the world 'order' and those who are excluded is widening day by day. The use of leading-edge technologies has made it possible to accumulate wealth in a way that is fantastic but perverse because it is unjustly distributed. Twenty-percent of humankind control eighty percent of all means of life. That fact creates a dangerous imbalance in the movement of history.

  Leonardo Boff

  Mean, Technology, Order

  Leonardo Boff (2001). “The Prayer of Saint Francis: A Message of Peace for the World Today”, p.43, Orbis Books

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• To be ordinary is the greatest virtue - because when you are just ordinary, nothing to claim, of this world or that, the ego disappears. The ego feeds on imbalance, the ego feeds on extremes. The ego lives on the polarities - in the middle it disappears. And in every area, in every direction of life, remember this: just stop in the middle and soon you will find the mind has stopped, the ego has stopped. Nothing to claim, it disappears. And when it disappears you have become virtuous. Now the door is open for the divine. In the middle you meet him; at the extremes you miss.

  Rajneesh

  Doors, Missing, Ego

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• The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed.

  Janet Morris

  God, Fate, Destiny

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.179, Paradise Publishing

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• The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is why the arcane and authoritative character of academic writing may be seen, to some extent, as a vengeful reaction to the inertia, uneventfulness, and waiting one had to endure as a guest at someone else's banquet. A way of redressing an existental imbalance, as it were reclaiming authorial will by superimposing one's own meaning on theirs...

  Michael Jackson

  Revenge, Character, Home

  "In Sierra Leone".

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• Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't making enough of an effort to reconcile the contradictions of life. All you get is sweet monotonous flow. Writer's block is nothing to commit suicide over. It simply indicates some imbalance between your experience and your art, and I think that's constructive.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Suicide, Sweet, Art

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• Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the citizen in a democracy. The particular imbalance of this ideology leads to a worship of self-interest and a denial of the public good. The practical effects on the individual are passivity and conformism in the areas that matter, and non-conformism in the areas that don't

  John Ralston Saul

  Self, Civilization, Democracy

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• I have found that the many imbalances within our individual lives result in an overall more worldly balance. What I mean is that no matter how unfair I think something is, I need only look at the bigger picture to see how, in a way, it fits... however impossible it is to understand it or see it at the time.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Mean, Thinking, Balance

  Cecelia Ahern (2009). “There's No Place Like Here”, Hyperion

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• There is a massive gender imbalance on TV

  Dawn O'Porter

  Tvs, Gender, Massive

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