Quotes About Balance

My sister says she never seems to get it together . . . either her rear looks good or her face does.

Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.

Nature heals under the auspices of the medical profession.

Sickness is felt, but health not at all.

The doctor, if he forgets he is only the assistant to nature and zealously takes over the stage, may so add to what nature is already doing well that he actually throws the patient into shock by the vigour he adds to nature's forces.

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

After dinner, rest a while, after supper walk a mile.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

So many come to the sickroom thinking of themselves as men of science fighting disease and not as healers with a little knowledge helping nature to get a sick man well.

It is very difficult to slow down. The practice of medicine is like the heart muscle's contraction - it's all or none.

The physician heals, Nature makes well.

Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians.

I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.

A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.

The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

Too much talk will include errors.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

To live long, it is necessary to live slowly.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.

Give me neither poverty nor riches.

To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.