Quotes About Balance

I drop my kid off at school and then race home, and it's a very limited time. I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk, I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I don't go running or hard hiking.

I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk. I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I don't go running or hard hiking.

Life is as horrifyingly frightening as it is hilarious.

Two wrongs do not make a right; but three rights make a left.

Simplifying your meals means shunning all unhealthy choices like French fries, fatty foods, sugary foods, salty foods, etc. Simplifying your eating habits will save you from lots of troubles in the long run.

Force has never kept anything together for very long. The more you tighten your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers.

Remember, then, that whoever does not mean good is always in danger of harm. But I try to give everybody fair play, and those that are in the wrong are in far more need of it always than those who are in the right: they can afford to do without it.

How kind you are, North Wind!' 'I am only just. All kindness is but justice. We owe it.

And when heart and head go together, nothing can stand before them

Bees and butterflies, moths and dragonflies, the flowers and the brooks and the clouds.

It's not good at all—mind that, Diamond—to do everything for those you love, and not give them a share in the doing. It's not kind. It's making too much of yourself.

Every one, as you ought to know, has a beast-self—and a bird-self, and a stupid fish-self, ay, and a creeping serpent-self too—which it takes a deal of crushing to kill! In truth he has also a tree-self and a crystal-self, and I don't know how many selves more—all to get into harmony. You can tell what sort a man is by his creature that comes oftenest to the front.

Work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

Mary was one who possessed power over her own spirit--rare gift, given to none but those who do something toward the taking of it. She was able in no small measure to order her own thoughts. Without any theory of self-rule, she yet ruled her Self. She was not one to slip about in the saddle, or let go the reins for a kick and a plunge or two. There was the thing that should be, and the thing that should not be; the thing that was reasonable, and the thing that was absurd.

There are not many people who can think about beautiful things and do common work at the same time. But then there are not many people who have been to the back of the north wind.

You must consider that you are but a part of the whole, and that whatever you do to hurt the whole, or injure any of its parts, will return upon you who form one of those parts.

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought Beauty too golden to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

He has not yet learned that the day begins with sleep! said the woman, turning to her husband. Tell him he must rest before he can do anything!

For the end of imagination is harmony.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.