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Quotes About Balance

Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.
~ Edward Coke
Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.
~ Paul Valery
One of the many interesting challenges nature presents us is its apparent disinterest in maintaining the order humans crave.
~ John Gardner
We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.
~ Nhat Hanh
Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.
~ Francis Thompson
Listening to nature's operating instructions.
~ Janine Benyus
One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature.
~ Thomas Merton
When you affirm your own Tightness in the universe, then you co operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You, being yourself, help others be themselves.
~ Jane Roberts
Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
~ Blaise Pascal
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
~ Aristotle
You can't divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.
~ James Balog
Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power.
~ Frederick Lenz
Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power.
~ Claudio Silvestrin
I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.
~ Donald Miller
We're not here to get over our humanness, but rather to accept and make peace with it... and to remember our Divine nature.
~ Sonia Choquette
I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.
~ Michelle Bachelet
There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.
~ William Shakespeare
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.
~ John Cage
Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.
~ Arnold Bennett
What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.
~ Rudolf Steiner
Nature is under control but not disturbed.
~ Beatrix of the Netherlands
Nature, not human activity, rules the climate.
~ Fred Singer
Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night.
~ Henry Beston
Fever itself is Nature's instrument.
~ Thomas Sydenham