Quotes About Balance

To stand up straight — not straightened

Take the shortest route, the one that nature planned—to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculation and pretension.

Everything harmonizes with me which is harmonious to thee, O Universe. Nothing for me is too early nor too late, which is in due time for thee. Everything is fruit to me which thy season brings, O Nature: from thee are all things, in thee are all things, to thee all things return.

Do external things distract you? Then make time for yourself to learn something worthwhile; stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions. But make sure you guard against the other kind of confusion. People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time—even when hard at work.

Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present—thoughtfully, justly. Unrestrained moderation.

A key point to bear in mind: The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You're better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.

That which is not good for the bee-hive, cannot be good for the bee.

For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.

It is a shame when the soul is first to give way in this life, and the body does not give way.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

in the ways of Nature there is no evil to be found.

To be free of passion and yet full of love.

From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have not leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relations to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations.

Remember: philosophy requires only what your nature already demands. What you've been after is something else again—something unnatural.

tranquillity is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

You are a spirit, bearing the weight of a dead body, as Epictetus used to say.

And those who complain and try to obstruct and thwart things—they help as much as anyone. The world needs them as well.

Remember: philosophy requires only what your nature already demands.

Give up your thirst for books so that you do not die a grouch.

And that might be applied to him which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess.

And here thou must remember, that thy carriage in every business must be according to the worth and due proportion of it, for so shalt thou not easily be tired out and vexed, if thou shalt not dwell upon small matters longer than is fitting.

Do external things distract you? Then make time for yourself to learn something worthwhile; stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions.

If you seek tranquillity, do less." Or (more accurately) do what's essential—what

And that might be applied to him which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul, such as he showed in the illness of Maximus.