Quotes About Balance

Let us recognize that our wings are to frivol with. The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a Good Time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.

The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don't drink too much. Then again, don't drink too little.

What we all need is enough vacation every day so that we can face each morning with health sufficient to do our work in gladness. That is to say, we need enough of a play-spell every day to keep us in good physical condition.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least — and it is commonly more than that — sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.

If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul.

You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes a day, unless you are too busy — then you should sit for an hour.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. No one is large enough to be split up into many parts; and the sooner a man can stamp this truth upon his mind, the better his chances for being a profitable member of society.

Criminal Minds, The Dance of Love: "Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."

Control sometimes hurts more than chaos.

Sometimes we must unfocus our way to clarity.

What makes it so hard to organize the environment sensibly is that everything we touch is hooked up to everything else.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

At high tide the fish eat ants; at low tide the ants eat fish.

So neither ought you to attempt to cure the body without the soul; and this is the reason why the cure of many diseases is unknown to the physicians, because they are ignorant of the whole, which ought to be studied also; for the part can never be well unless the whole is well... For this is the great error of our day in the treatment of the human body, that physicians separate the soul from the body.

By chase our long-lived fathers earn'd their food, Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood; But we, their sons, a pamper'd race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend: God never made his work for man to mend.

No doctor is better than three.

There are in America about fifty million people who, from time to time, set up chemical explosions in their internal economy in the hope that good health will follow. The worst about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary.

"A merry laugh doeth good like a medicine," said Solomon a thousand years before Christ. And today if we laughed more we would need medicine less. Aye, if we mixed laughter, love and work in the right proportion, medicine would be but a dream of things that once were.

I am pleased that lying on the sofa being a slob is finally considered the responsible thing to do.

On average a panda bear feeds about 12 hours per day. This is the same as a human adult at home under quarantine — which is why we call it a PANDEMIC.

I need to do some social distancing from the refrigerator.

When the soil disappears, the soul disappears.

Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul.