Quotes About Balance

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.

In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the only sure foundation of power in a writer.

A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?

How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?

I have a strong constitution which has served me quite well, though if I hadn't had such a strong one I might have led a more healthy life perhaps.

I really wanted to share with people the day-to-day joys that yoga can bring into one's life-not just the physical aspects.

It is ridiculous to think that you can spend your entire life with just one person. Three is about the right number. Yes, I imagine three husbands would do it?

When it comes to fame, I am in a very convenient position. I live a very normal life.

I think that if you are going to be successful as a Christian in the arts, you have to be successful in your Christian life.

I do try to live a normal life.

I seem to enjoy making my life miserable by taking on too many projects and always wishing I could put more time into all of them.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince.

We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.

and balance their interests. Of course, except for the romanticized examples of remote Swiss cantons and ancient Greek city-states, the founders had no examples of effective republican rule to draw on in framing their governments. They dreamed of creating something better in the New World than the monarchies

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of disease.

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

In this era, you must deliberately preserve and cultivate your most valuable connections to people, activities, and whatever else is most important to you. Anyone can cultivate these connections, drawing from them the strength and will a person needs to handle the best and worst of life, but only if you plan to do so and insist on adhering to your plan .

Whatever you do, please don't think of sleep as wasted time, an indulgence, or a generous reservoir from which you can steal time for work. Do what your brain and body beg you to do: get enough sleep.

You tend to ignore the structures that would guide you to take care of yourself if you are taking care of others too much.

Your reflex to help others starts to control you if you don't understand what's happening and take steps to prevent it.

Humor is a key to a happy life with ADD.

We've got an overabundance of attention, more attention than we can cope with; our constant challenge is to control it.