Quotes About Balance

There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.

Perhaps it would be a good idea if everyone just stopped writing for a couple of years and allowed readers to catch up.

We must never settle for harmony at the expense of holiness, nor for peace at the expense of principal.

This excessive love for "the balance of power" is neither more nor less than a gigantic system of out-door relief for the aristocracy of Great Britain.

Psychological well-being is not determined by the presence of one type of emotion but by a diversity of emotions, both positive and negative. Whether or not an emotion is "good" or "bad" seems to have surprisingly little to do with the emotion itself but rather with how mindfully we ride the ebbing and flowing tides of our rich emotional life.

Hustle to keep your kids on or off the Internet, eating organic or local or nothing at all. Take these actions, or none. Just don't worry about them. There is nothing to worry about, and there never was.

Filters fail when they know us too well and when they don't know us well enough.

I don't think money makes much difference, as long as you have enough.

acquiring money for its own sake can become an addiction if you're not careful—

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

To spend your days on such work when the world is chockful of amusing things. Life goes roaring by and you only hear the echo in your stuffy rooms.

Every fat [vat] must stand upon his bottom.

Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.

I am moonlighting for the Buddha.

the All was alternately one and at peace through the power of Aphrodite,

Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.

We are rooted to the air through our lungs and to the soil through our stomachs. We are walking trees and floating plants.

When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, for all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see

Science kills credulity and superstition, but to the well-balanced mind it enhances the feeling of wonder, of veneration, and of kinship which we feel in the presence of the miraculous universe.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature....

Go to the sea or climb the mountain, and with the ruggedest and the savagest you will find likewise the fairest and the most delicate. The greatness and the minuteness of nature pass all understanding.