Quotes About Balance

Dieters live life in the fasting lane.

Fear is one part prudence.

Fire and water are good servants but bad masters.

Fire is love and water sorrow.

Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.

Keep temperate diet, use moderate exercise, observe seasonable and set hours for rest: let the end of thy first sleep raise thee from thy repose: Then hath thy body the best temper; then hath thy soul the least encumbrance; then no noise shall disturb thine ear, no object shall divert thine eye.

Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn.

Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone, and more fragile than a rose.

Friends are lost by calling often, and by calling seldom.

Video games ruined my life. (Good thing I have two more.)

One may as much miss the Mark, by aiming too high, as too low.

A golfer's diet: Live on greens as much as possible.

I've spent most of my life golfing — the rest I've just wasted.

Born to golf. Forced to work.

Statesmen are not called upon only to settle easy questions. These often settle themselves. It is where the balance quivers, and the proportions are veiled in mist, that the opportunity for world-saving decisions presents itself.

Appreciate comfort. Also appreciate those things that knock us off course enough to realize we should appreciate the comfort.

I like people who don't take life too seriously but who do take very seriously the gratitude for being alive.

Kale smoothies taste so much better when they're brownies.

Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.

We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

Consequently, we should try as much as possible to maintain a high degree of health; for cheerfulness is the very flower of it.

God made time, but man made haste.

Once you stop rushing through life, you will be amazed how much more life you have time for.

You do not at all understand my manner of life. Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry; because I never undertake any more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit.