Quotes About Balance

He who serves two masters has to lie to one.

Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you get neither.

One may miss the mark by aiming too high, as too low.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.

The world is more exacting than God himself.

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

The good should be grateful to the bad - for providing the world with a basis for comparison.

If I've learned anything in my seventy years it's that nothing's as good or as bad as it appears.

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

The temple of silence and reconciliation.

Man is preceded by forest followed by desert.

The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Happiness is a result of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings, rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.

If thou wouldst be happy ... have an indifference for more than what is sufficient.

You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.

Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy; but, my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift.

Have a variety of interests. ... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.

It is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.

The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.