Quotes About Balance

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

The driver knows how much the ox can carry, and keeps the ox from being overloaded. You know your way and your state of mind. Do not carry too much.

If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath, you would stop and take breath, you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.

We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.

The hole and the patch should be commensurate.

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

Dancing on the edge is the only place to be.

To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.

We may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.

Danger and delight grow on one stalk.

Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

Candour and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin.

The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

I would live to study, not study to live.

Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.

How I relate to my inner self influences my relationships with all others. My satisfaction with myself and my satisfaction with other people are directly proportional.

Accept your humanness as well as your divinity, totally and without reserve.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity, and to be vibrantly alive in repose.