Quotes About Balance

Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky...

It was as if I'd suffered a chemical change of the spirit: as if the acid balance of my psyche had shifted and leached the life out of me in aspects impossible to repair, or reverse, like a frond of living coral hardened to bone. I

The swish of the oars and the hypnotic thrum of dragonflies blended with his academic monotone.

The ice cream slows down your digestion. The coke settles your stomach and the caffeine cures your headache. Sugar gives you energy

What you want to live and be happy in the world is a woman who has her own life and lets you have yours.

there's a middle zone, a rainbow edge where beauty comes into being, where two very different surfaces mingle and blur to provide what life does not: and this is the space where all art exists, and all magic.

It is my experience, stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you. What you want, to live and be happy in the world, is a women who has her own life and let's you have yours.

If we're not at peace, we are in an ego state.

I do not like hardness of heart, but neither do I like softness of head.

I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

I have always been fond of the West African proverb: 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far,'

In the long sentences of the president's message, semicolons followed by "yet" or "but" separated clauses that balanced each side of an issue, reflecting Roosevelt's characteristic "on the one hand, on the other" style of crediting antagonistic views.

One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, had made both sides see themselves as they are.

If I wasn't busy, she replied, I'd go crazy.

Still, Roosevelt noted, it was "not always easy to strike the just middle," and he inevitably made mistakes.

I find that without a place to work, it is difficult to work. I look forward with the greatest pleasure to the use of my books at night at home.

We should constantly be reminded of what we owe in return for what we have.

Even Roosevelt, with his singular disciplined drive, managed to quit work early four or five afternoons each week for a game of tennis or jog through Rock Creek Park before heading

I do admire efficiency,' said Marthe. 'But how tedious it can be in excess.

Your blasted Nanny should have taught you what mine did,' said Lymond. 'The things you enjoy most aren't good for you.