Quotes About Balance

Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.

Anger - use it, but don't lose it!

Magic is love. All magic should be performed out of love. The moment anger or hatred tinges your magic, you have crossed the border into a dangerous world, one that will ultimately consume you.

Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.

Anger and humour are like the left and right arm. They complement each other.

Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do.

The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.

I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends.

When the mind is free of fear, guilt, anger and is more centered, then it holds the power to heal any ailment.

Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.

Your anger can be 49 percent and your comedy 51 percent, and you're okay. If the anger is 51 percent, the comedy is gone.

Gratitude takes less energy than anger.

Temperate anger well becomes the wise.

Do not plunge thyself too far in anger.

A temperate anger has virtue in it.

Anger without power is folly.

A soft word pacifies anger, and the discordant words break the harmony of the cosmic diapason, and generate disorders.

Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.

The problem with anger is that it's so consuming. You've got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point.

Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.

Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child's mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments, anger and a general loss of harmony.

O]ne can become whole only by the responsible acceptance of one's partiality.

There appears to be a law that when creatures have reached the level of consciousness, as men have, they must become conscious of the creation; they must learn how they fit into it and what its needs are and what it requires of them, or else pay a terrible penalty: the spirit of the creation will go out of them, and they will become destructive; the very earth will depart from them and go where they cannot follow.

Modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. Wendell Berry