Quotes About Balance

We can never have enough of nature.

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.

There can be no very black misery to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

I am a happy camper so I guess I'm doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

Fire is the most tolerable third party.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

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.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it.

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.

Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Sometimes it's easier to care for others than it is to care for yourself.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - from Live Without Principle

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

The life of Balance is difficult. It lies on the verge of continual temptation, its perpetual adjustments become fatiguing, its measured virtue is monotonous and uninspiring.