Quotes About Balance

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.

Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.

The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

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 a breath, you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

A person who believes ... that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.

Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done.

Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.

Rule No. i is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule No. 2 is, it's all small stuff.

When you first learn to love hell, you will be in heaven.

If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take of care themselves.

There is an accuracy that defeats itself by the overemphasis of details. I often say that one must permit oneself, and quite advisedly and deliberately, a certain margin of misstatement.

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed in keeping rabbits.

Tennessee Williams said if he got rid of his demons, he would lose his angels.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelette and the intolerable, so with autobiography.