Quotes About Balance

It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.

I've snapped and plotted all my life. There's no other way to be a king, alive and fifty all at the same time.

Nothing in life has any business being perfect.

Exercise...because the soul isn't the only thing worth saving.

I needed a day job that required me mostly to use my mind and hands, because my heart and soul belonged to my dreams.

One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, cooperation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs.... He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.

Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;... and not today's pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man.

You have no time to do the science if you're talking to the media.

Self esteem and depression go hand in hand. They are directly proportionate to each other and if there is variation in one then there will be a variation in the other one as well.

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

He devoted a considerable amount of his acute intelligence to the cause of doing as little as possible.

Never let the law interfere with justice.

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

The right mixture of caring and not caring - I suppose that's what love is.

If I could put it into a very few words, dear sir, I should say that our prevalent belief is in moderation. We inculcate the virtue of avoiding excesses of all kinds—even including, if you will pardon the paradox, excess of virtue itself.

We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?

The paradox of individuation is that we best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.

The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.

The intellectual normally values reason above all, Dover demonstrates that reason divorced from emotion becomes cold, clinical and ahuman.

After these two, Dr. Diet and Dr. Quiet, Dr. Merriman is requisite to preserve health.

Pleasure and business, unlike oil and water, can sometimes be mixed.

When we take ourselves too seriously, we are at the risk of taking other things, including God, too lightly,

This is a mans world. This is a mans world. But it would be nothing, nothing Without a women or a girl.