Quotes About Balance

If you love a bird don't hold it too tightly or you'll soon be nursing a broken heart.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.

Be hard on yourself, easy on others.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

If you chase two rabbits, you catch none.

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.

Those who are truly wise will remain unmoved by feelings of happiness and suffering, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, gain and loss.They will remain calm like the eye of a hurricane.

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

He who practices Tasawwuf without learning Sacred Law corrupts his faith, while he who learns Sacred Law without practicing Tasawwuf corrupts himself. Only he who combines the two proves true.

A man of wisdom delights in water.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.