Quotes About Balance

Sometimes we have 2 Nephi 2:25 "joy" days, and sometimes we have Moses 6:48 "misery and woe" days.

True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.

Learn to say no to the good so you can say yes to the best.

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

To Stay Focused in Life: You can't know everyone You can't do everything You can't go everywhere We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

In my story I do not deal in Absolute Evil. I do not think there is such a thing, since that is Zero. —The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, no. 183

I maintain that all spirituality must be founded on moral life; but on the other hand, moral life must, so to speak, bathe itself in the ocean of contemplation. Without contemplation, the moral life would tend to degenerate into a dry and narrow humanism. Without the moral life, contemplation would be empty and degenerate into quietism.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

In our forests part divine and makes her heart palpitate wild and tame are one. What a delicious Sound!

You can feel an emotion, just don't think that it's so important.

The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accordance with nature, in her manner of operation.

For this is spiritual sobriety, when we use this world so sparingly and temperately that we are not entangled with its allurements.

One of the great things about mental math is that the calculations can generally be done from either direction, and a certain symmetry generally is present.

Accentuate the positive - eliminate the negative. And only the negative.

Live in the flesh but not according to the flesh.

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

Fasting of the body is food for the soul.

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

I have one head that wants to be good, And one that wants to be bad. And always, as soon as I get up, One of my heads is sad.