logo

Quotes About Balance

Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.
~ Edward Stanley
I have stared long enough at the glowing flat rectangles of computer screens. Let us give more time for doing things in the real world . . . plant a plant, walk the dogs, read a real book, go to the opera.
~ Edward Tufte
Never invest so much in anyone romantically that you lose your head. The Buddha of casual sex, I remain detached at all costs.
~ Edward Vilga
Everything depends on something. The leaf depends on the tree. The tree depends on the sun, air and water. They are only 'part' of the Universe. To depend on God is to know the same and be sublimely happy because of that knowledge.
~ Edward Weiss
The person of God walks the edge; one side virtue, the other, vice.
~ Edward Weiss
Here is the situation of Man: the more power he claims for himself, the less power he has.
~ Edward Weiss
They say a reasonable amount 'o fleas is good fer a dog — keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog, mebbe.
~ Edward Westcott
Are you to pay for all you have with all you are?
~ Edwin A. Robinson
The essence of justice is mercy.
~ Edwin Hubbell Chapin
The spirit of service essential to avoiding majority or minority tyranny requires that every official seek to deserve the public trust he may not actually possess. However effective the checks and balances of government, however extensive the prevention of abuses of power by government, the government itself will be less than trustworthy unless individual officials try to be worthy of the trust they bear.
~ Edwin J. Delattre
Men and women have strengths that complement each other.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.
~ Edwin Teale
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
~ Edwin Way Teale
Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.
~ Edwin Way Teale
Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.
~ Edwin Way Teale
Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.
~ Edwin Way Teale
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life and the labors of life reduce themselves.
~ Edwin Way Teale
Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.
~ Edwin Way Teale
If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.
~ Edwin Way Teale
Eliminate the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
~ Edwin Way Teale
A fool authority neither constitutes balanced and concrete policies, nor lets to perform that others; thus, all the matters stay on risk and fail consequently.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
An angel and evil live within you; your thoughts and actions feed to let, allow, and empower them to play the role. It depends on you, which one you choose and please.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Anyone who indulges only in self-love remains devoid of true love.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
As a lawyer practices the law; similarly, the victimizer creates the victim, and the tyrant constitutes the tyranny; naturally, every object and subject has its executor. The solution is simple as only a diamond cuts the diamond.
~ Ehsan Sehgal