Quotes About Balance

Age helps one to acquire some of the perspectives necessary to create harmony among apparent contradictions.

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.

We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.

We all understand what we signed up for, but then again, you don't want this to be a game that puts people in wheelchairs at age 40.

He who would eat much must eat little, for by eating less he will live longer, and so be able to eat more.

We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.

There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.

This problem - it is age old. To do what is right and save the day without destroying the very thing the day is lived for.

I read. It's also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world than acting. It makes me feel like I am doing things that normal people are doing at my age.

You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good-but your rich foods block the gods' answer and tie Jupiter's hands.

Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.

I'm age-appropriate. I dress age-appropriately, I choose mates age-appropriately. I'm a big believer in people should act their age...

You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution

Middle age is when the best exercise is one of discretion.

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down.

I have friends my age who started smoking pot when they got out of college. They didn't get anywhere. But if they drank, they managed to go somewhere. Does that make sense?

He (Dave Brower) is an emotionalist in an age of dangerous reason.