Quotes About Balance

The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy.

The busiest man is the happiest man.

Happiness comes from ... some curious adjustment to life.

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

The secret of living is to find ... the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris, a lark, a bluebird, or a dewy morning glory.

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.

It is in virtue that happiness consists, for virtue is the state of mind which tends to make the whole of life harmonious.

Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

No pleasure without pain.

Better be happy than wise.

Take time for all things.

An old head upon young shoulders.

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

An apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.

The hearts that never lean must fall.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, who am I for? And if not now, when?

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be safely mentioned under cover of a joke.