Quotes About Balance

el remoto proverbio árabe: "Un mediano bienestar tranquilo es preferible a la opulencia llena de preocupaciones".

There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.

To be happy does not mean to indulge in foolishness!

I pay for every friend I make with a hundred enemies!

The sword must yield to the toga, Cicero had told the Roman Senate, and the friars in the Philippines thought a cassock was as good as a toga. But

Take care that your philosophy does not outpace your thought.

Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony with everything and everyone; everything is "in him"; nothing can happen to him. The same may also be said for the contemplative person; he needs himself alone; he lacks nothing.

Of course the world of work begins to become - threatens to become - our only world, to the exclusion of all else. The demands of the working world grow ever more total, grasping ever more completely the whole of human existence.

The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.

Shadow conceals-light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal and in what degrees to do this is all there is to art.

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost out of the other.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

Unbounded courage and compassion join'd / Tempering each other in the victor's mind / Alternately proclaim him good and great / And make the hero and the man complete.

I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world.

I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.

Disease generally brings that equality which death completes.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Sir Roger . . . told them, with the air of a man who would not give his judgement rashly, that much might be said on both sides.

Much might be said on both sides.