A Quote by Laozi

He who holds balance...has attained the highest post in the world. — © Laozi
He who holds balance...has attained the highest post in the world.

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I have indeed - praise be to God - attained my desire in this world, which was to travel through the earth, and i have attained in this respect what no other person has attained to my knowledge.
I have a very, very great balance sheet, so great that when I did the Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue, the United States government, because of my balance sheet, which they actually know very well, chose me to do the Old Post Office, between the White House and Congress, chose me to do the Old Post Office.
The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable
The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.
Balance is key. Balance is a virtue. Balance is next to godliness, maybe. We should all aspire to better balance. Too much of what is said in this world is one-sided, and we need more balance - in our speech, in our music, in our art, in everything.
Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.
What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because his elders told him they were true when he was young, or if he holds them because if he did not he would be unhappy, his thought is not free; but if he holds them because, after careful thought, he finds a balance in their favor, then his thought is free, however odd his conclusions may seem.
Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.
The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best conditioned players
These are six ways of courting defeat, which must be carefully noted by the general who has attained a responsible post.
The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
Until the reality of equality between man and woman is fully established and attained, the highest social development of mankind is not possible.
Do not go for glass beads leaving the mine of diamonds. This life is a great chance. What, seekest thou the pleasures of the world? He is the fountain of all bliss. See for the highest, aim at that highest, and you shall reach the highest.
I never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience.
Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday.
If we go on to cast a look at the fate of these World-Historical persons, whose vocation it was to be the agents of the World-Spirit, we shall find it to have been no happy one. They attained no calm enjoyment; their whole life was labour and trouble; their whole nature was nought else but their master—passion. When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel. They die early, like Alexander; they are murdered, like Caesar.
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