Quotes About Balance

The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.

A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

The grass must bend when the wind blows across it.

Happiness comes from within a man, from some curious adjustment to life.

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

Science says: "We must live," and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable; wisdom says: "We must die," and seeks how to make us die well.

No rose without a thorn.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment.

There are things I can't force. I must adjust.

Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.

They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog - it keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog mebbe.

We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.

As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

To make pleasure pleasant, shorten.

Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket.