Quotes About Balance

The best six doctors anywhere— And no one can deny it— Are Sunshine, Water, Rest and Air, Exercise and Diet. These six will gladly you attend, If only you are willing, Your mind they'll cheer, Your ills they'll mend, And charge you not one shilling.

The trouble about always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do it without destroying the health of the mind.

I try to treat each evening and weekend as little slices of retirement because no one is guaranteed a lengthy one at the end of their career.

Don't let the hours own you.

Your body is a temple, but keep the spirits on the outside.

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

Scorpio has perfected the art of being dark and mysterious while being cute and goofy.

Scorpios know that sometimes the poison is the cure.

The secret to happiness in your work is to find a job in which your neurosis is constructive.

Fortitude is the mean between fear and rashness.

Life itself is a mixture of power and form, and will not bear the least excess of either. To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

Life is like riding a bicycle; we can keep from falling if we keep moving. Only a few trick-riders can stand still and not tumble.

Let go or be dragged.

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Good design for the home should be universal. A house should be like old shoes, comfortable, like a good friend… The Japanese aesthetic is important to me. Very organic. They have a sense of the weight of the thing: very balanced.

"I don't need to be so full of myself that I feel I am without flaw. I can feel beautiful and imperfect at the same time. I have a healthy relationship with my aesthetic insecurities."

It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

I am just as comfortable in sweats and sneakers as I am in a dress and heels. Attitude is everything!

My attitude is one movie at a time. I don't want to get ahead of myself.

The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind.

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

When you are depressed, you have a chemical imbalance in your brain. Thoughts trigger emotions, which dump an overload of stress chemicals into the brain. There is a chemical consequence in the brain for every thought we think. Depression can be short-circuited temporarily by the brain-switching process. It's a way of restoring the chemical balance. The thoughts that create depression connect with one's memory banks, which have emotional associations. In

you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.