logo

Quotes About Balance

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
~ John Dewey
Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.
~ John Dewey
If a mans actions are not guided by thoughtful conclusions, then they are guided by inconsiderate impulse, unbalanced appetite, caprice, or the circumstances of the moment. To cultivate unhindered, reflective external activity is to foster enslavement, for it leaves the person at the mercy of appetite, sense and circumstance
~ John Dewey
Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the planets, repelled yet attracted, and the whole moving regularly and harmoniously in their several orbits.
~ John Dickinson
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.
~ John Donne
If they be two, they are two soAs stiff twin compasses are two,Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no showTo move, but doth, if the other do.
~ John Donne
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.
~ John Donne
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
~ John Donne
If they be so two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other dar doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like the other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end, where I begun.
~ John Donne
Nature hath no goal, though she hath law.
~ John Donne
Nature hath no gaol, though she hath law.
~ John Donne
Y por esa puerta entrarán, y en esa casa morarán, donde no habrá ni nubes ni sol, ni oscuridad ni deslumbramiento, sino una luz constante, ni ruido ni silencio, sino una música constante, ni miedos ni esperanzas, sino una ecuanimidad constante, ni amigos ni enemigos, sino unas constantes comunión e identidad, ni fin ni principio, sino una constante eternidad.
~ John Donne
a 3-Season Diet that gives us all of nature's nutrients in proper proportion over the course of a year,
~ John Douillard
The extent to which you get dried out in the winter because you did not eat warm and oily foods is the extent to which you will produce mucus in excess in the spring. It
~ John Douillard
Who think too little, and who talk too much.
~ John Dryden
So over violent, or over civil,That every man with him was God or Devil.
~ John Dryden
They think too little who talk too much.
~ John Dryden
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
~ John Dryden
Order is the greatest grace
~ John Dryden
You can't possibly conduct a proper affair without a lot of deliberating, scheming, speculating, and conniving. It's a delicate balance where the excitement must equal the guilt and sex must be as bright as the future you gamble.
~ John Dufresne
others.We must be good stewards of our physical and mental health while at the same time carefully avoiding the things that can trip us up. In these ways we accomplish our first strategy to live well till the end.
~ John Dunlop
Life is both pain and pleasure. If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too much?
~ Christopher Paolini
I've been happy with my life. Also very lucky. I lead two lives - businessman and racer - and it feels like the best of both worlds.
~ Connie Kalitta
Here and now...breathe and relax...in battle and in life
~ Dan Millman