Quotes About Balance

Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding places in a voluminous writer.

Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the Substitute of Exercise or Temperance.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Skaitymas protui - tolygu fiziniai pratimai k?nui.

Author's note: If the night is 12 parts and the day is six parts, the entire 24 hour day is divided into 18 sections of 80 minutes each.)

I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.

I get up in the morning, do my e-mail, I check my e-mails all day. I'll go online and I'll buy my books at Amazon.com, but I don't want to buy all of them because I want to go to Duttons and I want to buy books from another human being.

'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free,'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,And when we find ourselves in the place just right,'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Never think that war is a good thing, grandchildren. Though it may be necessary at times to defend our people, war is a sickness that must be cured. War is a time out of balance. When it is truly over, we must work to restore peace and sacred harmony once again.

Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

An enormous force bends all lines into circles.

The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Divine justice is no respecter of mathematicians or scientists.

You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.

None of us are either all good or all bad – we're all somewhere in between – but there comes a moment in each life when we take an important step, either toward the light or toward the dark…

Sometimes, when something bad leaves the world, something good enters in its place. I've seen it happen before . - Mam

I realized Mam was right. It was nothing to do with prophecy. You could see it in Alice's eyes. She'd always be somewhere in between, neither wholly good nor wholly bad. But wasn't that true of all of us? Not one of us was perfect.

When the good die, it sometimes unshackles evil that would otherwise have been kept in check!

minerals. This experience again proved to me that what is termed disease is actually a deficiency which results from an imbalance in the natural environment. It also reminded me of the close relationship between the human body and the natural elements of the earth.

Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.