Quotes About Balance

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

A full belly is of little worth where the mind is starved, and the heart.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce. "Woman—An Opinion" (speech) Some

Death is to life as heaven is to hell they're both dependent on each other

Meat first, and spoon vittles to top off on.

Bekase why: would a wise man ant to live in de mid's er such a blimblammin' all de time? No--'deed he wouldn't. A wise man 'ud take en buil' a biler-factry; en den he could shet down de biler-factory when he want to res'.

All diets are wholesome. Some are wholesomer than others, but all the ordinary diets are wholesome enough for the people who use them. Whether the food be fine or coarse it will taste good and it will nourish if a watch be kept upon the appetite and a little starvation introduced every time it weakens.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscious: this is the ideal life.

I have no special regard for Satan; but I can at least claim that I have no prejudice against him. It may even be that I lean a little his way, on account of his not having a fair show. All religions issue bibles against him, and say the most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side.

The billiard table is better than the doctor.

We only compound our feelings of depletion if we deal with them by giving up activities that normally nourish us

Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.

God for all intents and purposes is an equal sign, and at least up until now, something humanity has always been able to believe in is that universe adds up

there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.

Don't punish yourself,' she heard her say again, but there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.

It makes me wonder, Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or forget things? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives? I don't know.

There were reasons to leave, and reasons to stay, and all of it was the same.

The juggling comes to an end now, but the struggling does not. I have Liesel Meminger in one hand, Max Vandenburg in the other. Soon I will clap them together. Just give me a few pages.

una prueba más de lo contradictorio que es el ser humano. Una pizca de bondad, una pizca de maldad y sólo falta añadirle agua.

I urge you - don't be afraid. I'm nothing if not fair

The juggling comes to an end now, but the struggling does not. I have Liesel Meminger in one hand, Max Vandenburg in the other. Soon, I will clap them together. Just give me a few pages. The

I'm nothing if not fair.

As I've been alluding to, my one saving grace is distraction. It keeps me sane. It helps me cope,...