Quotes About Balance

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

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.

Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times.

Anything for a Quiet Life.

I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.

Maybe you were supposed to move forward armed with just enough history to help you figure out the present without obsessing over the past. But how much was enough? Where was the gray area between ignorance and obsession?

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.

There are injuries which nature cannot forgive; she would cease to be nature if she did.

Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority, perfect equality affords no temptation.

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things. When

HOW CAME THE KING BY A POWER WHICH THE PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO TRUST, AND ALWAYS OBLIGED TO CHECK? Such a power could not be the gift of a wise people, neither can any power, WHICH NEEDS CHECKING, be from God; yet the provision, which the constitution makes, supposes such a power to exist.

You may not have noticed, but men over retirement age seem to have a lot of clothes of an earlier vintage." "Yep," he said. "We're all timing it to wear them out at the moment of death so everything comes out even.

The company's working capital is the amount of money left over after you subtract current liabilities from current assets. Current Assets – Current Liabilities = Working Capital

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will show the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second.

We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.

There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.

Fever itself is Nature's instrument.

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.

Take care of the heart, and the head will take care of itself.

Perfect harmony with its environment, and perfect expression of its own inward nature are what constitute Beauty;