Quotes About Balance

Getting rid of the clutter is not about letting go of things that are meaningful to you. It's about letting go of the things that no longer contribute to your life so you have the time and the energy and the space for the things that do.

No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.

The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day -- wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

The stronger a man is, the more gentle he can afford to be

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Poise is the strength of body and strength of mind to control your Sympathy and your Knowledge. Unless you control your emotions they run over and you stand in the mire.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is to love, laugh, and work.

No se tome la vida demasiado en serio; nunca saldrá usted vivo de ella

I am the Little Bug Spirit. I come to people when they begin to take themselves too seriously. They think they are big. I cut them down to size.

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

But as the late- seventeenth-century philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz said, 'To be neutral is rather like someone who lives in the middle of a house and is smoked out from below and drenched with urine from above.

How much of your life... is balanced on the unseen? Bridie's Tomb

conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.

A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably