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Quotes About Balance

Most of us have become deaf to our own bodies, which is why we are out of tune.
~ Terri Guillemets
Your body is a temple but only if you treat it as one.
~ Terri Guillemets
If your body's not right, the rest of you will go wrong. Take care of yourself.
~ Terri Guillemets
Body puts us on the brittle line between life and death.
~ Terri Guillemets
Why do we alienate ourselves so much from our bodies? It's that big piece of machinery attached to your head.
~ Terri Guillemets
Why are we destroying the land instead of taking care of it? It takes care of us.
~ Terri Guillemets
Man, with his metal beaver-teeth chops down the world's trees saws, whines, grinds — loudly without a care but human "needs"
~ Terri Guillemets
All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half used minds; for it is the mind that makes the body: that is my secret, and the secret of all the true healers.
~ Bernard Shaw
Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
~ James Allen (1864–1912)
...certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and like them, are often successfully cured by remedies in themselves very nauseous and unpalatable.
~ Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge
Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night; and thus he would never know the rhythms that are at the heart of life.
~ Hal Borland
Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul, the work of the soul, and good for either, the work of the other.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The best six doctors anywhere And no one can deny it Are sunshine, water, rest, and air Exercise and diet...
~ Part of a nursery rhyme
What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."
~ Marilyn vos Savant
When God created man, He gave him two ends — one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then, man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
~ Author unknown, c.1939
The clock strikes one that just struck two – Some schism in the sum; A sorcerer from Genesis Has wrecked the pendulum.
~ Emily Dickinson, 1883
There's nothing wrong with having a tree for a friend.
~ Bob Ross, The Joy of Painting
If a man walks in the woods for love of them and see his fellows with impartial eye afar, for half his days, he is esteemed a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods, he is esteemed industrious and enterprising — making earth bald before its time.
~ Henry David Thoreau
To avoid straining your eyes when you're continuously working, follow the 20-20-20 rule. After 20 minutes of work, look at something 20 feet away, then spend 20 years in the forest.
~ @jacques_lakan, tweet, 2022
When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it.
~ French proverb
Part of me is thinking: It's Wednesday already! And the other part of me is thinking: What do you mean it's only Wednesday?!
~ Internet meme
Wednesdays are like Mondays in the middle of the week!
~ Lee Fox Williams, unverified
As a matter of recuperation the vacation does not recuperate, since as a rule, no man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to reform his life.
~ Elbert Hubbard