Quotes About Balance

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

[We] live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.

This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

God's presence is the one inescapable fact of human life. We will encounter him in one way or another. Those who make a place for him find him to be the glue that holds everything together. Those who ignore him find their lives to be askew and cannot understand why. They have left out the most crucial factor in the equation of their lives, so that everything will always be unbalanced. The Lord God is either a sanctuary to dwell in or a stone to stumble over.

We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.

The Best for the Group comes when everyone in the group does what's best for himself AND the group.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? Yet if I am for myself only, what am I?

For several decades, we have been slaving for a better reputation with ourselves—better looks, more achievement, keeping fit, optimal work-life balance, not to mention changing the world—but is all this really making us happier?

In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.

When you chase success, your spark burns out quickly. When

One of the great illusions of our day is that hurrying will buy us more time.

In the eternal balance between individual rights and community obligations, Washington believed that there were times that the national interest trumped individual self-interest.

Ultimately, the overarching prescription from President Eisenhower was similar to what Washington had counseled as the ultimate check and balance: vigorous citizenship. In a democracy, political father figures are never the last sources of responsibility. 'Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry,' Ike advised, 'can compel the proper meshing of the huge industry and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

There was always some tension between those who thought their role was to keep things in order and those who were urgent about producing necessary changes. But most penguins intuitively understood that you needed both to thrive in this new era.

Use as much water as you need but not a drop more.

We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.

Some of us are afraid of getting too emotional when we sing. But the problem isn't emotions. It's emotionalism. Emotionalism pursues feelings as ends in themselves. It's wanting to feel something with no regard for how that feeling is produced or its ultimate purpose.

In my view, America's greatest need is for husbands to begin guiding their families, rather than pouring every physical and emotional resource into the mere acquisition of money.

Irony and disproportion are all God's way. He keeps us off balance with his unpredictable connections. We think we know how to do something big, and God makes it small. We think that all we have is weak and small, and God makes it big.

Denying rights that protect lesser values to maintain rights that protect greater values is what good laws are supposed to do.

self-interest is not the same as selfishness.