Quotes About Balance

have come to realize that I am the indispensable person only until the moment I say no.

I am saying that there is a time to do, and a time not to do, and that when we are slave to the habit of doing we are unable to distinguish between them.

The more finely we divided and measured time, first into hours, then minutes and seconds, the less we seemed to have of it and the more the clock encroached upon and usurped sovereignty over life, until today we are all "on the clock.

We must turn away from an attitude of nature-as-engineering-object to one of humble partnership.

When we chop nature into bits in an attempt to understand it, we lose sight of the relationships among those bits. But ecological healing is all about the healing of relationships.

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the Constitution.

If there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.

Let a god change anything, and there will be reactions of evil as much as good. Only stupidity can be divine.

If money makes the world go round, it's humor that keeps it from spinning out of control.

Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge.

E. W. Ansted hasn't forgot how to laugh and how to play. His is the heart that never grows old... You must get just enough play-spell mixed up in the work every day, so nothing becomes monotonous.

We mature in knowledge and wisdom but never leave the playground of our hearts.

The smallest insect is as important as the largest bear.

We should take care not to make intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

A man who thinks about business continually for eight hours is injuring his productive potential as much as he is abusing his body, cramping his mind, and ultimately losing his sense of humor and perspective... When work presses down most heavily, a 10-minute walk or a quiet cup of coffee with a crossword puzzle can restore efficiency to an amazing degree...

Marcie: How can you pig-out on all that junk food every day, sir? Peppermint Patty: Life is more than carrot sticks, Marcie.

Inside our bodies, junk food converts to chaos.

If you plant junk food in your body garden, how do you expect to harvest health?

The trouble with the laws these days is that criminals know their rights better than their wrongs.

If you don't get enough time-outs as a child, you get them as a grownup.

Plenty of ladybirds, plenty of hops.

If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.

...certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort...

To the art of working well a civilized race would add the art of playing well.